Exclusive: Prof Simon Baron-Cohen says his language was misunderstood and it is a myth that autistic people lack empathy ...

Anthropic’s new Claude research reveals a hidden internal “global workspace” that resembles human conscious processing, ...

What if Sigmund Freud was onto something that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to explain? A new paper argues that ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The brain does not have the ability to rewire itself—such as following ...

So many of life's most pivotal decisions come down to one question: Should you listen to your logic or your emotions? Popular ...

In this post, the last of a five-part series, we will acquire an understanding of various theories that emphasize the importance of top-down signaling in shaping and enabling conscious perception.

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in primates. Now, an Oxford evolutionary psychologist who doubted it from the start ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory Italian ...

What happens when we die? It’s one of the single greatest questions in the history of humankind, silently driving science and religion for centuries. The standard reductionist model says consciousness ...

How does the human brain learn to innovate? The Thousand Brain theory, proposed by Silicon Valley innovator-turned-scientist Jeff Hawkins, is the first proposal to explain how the brain functions at ...

Modern science can trace its origin from Copernicus’s discovery of the Sun-centred solar system—which made the prevailing Earth-centred view medieval by comparison. Inevitably, the scientific ...