Our brains handle vast amounts of complicated information. So, how exactly does the mind make sense of all the many things it has to deal with? While there are a few different ideas, information ...

The conscious experience of our surroundings involves several forms of attention, from bottom-up automatic attention to a more focused top-down attention. These forms of attention all rely on neural ...

Humans are unrivalled in the area of cognition. After all, no other species has sent probes to other planets, produced lifesaving vaccines or created poetry. How information is processed in the human ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series. Integrated information theory (IIT) is a theory of consciousness. It was first formulated by the neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio Tononi in the early 2000s ...

The brain's ability to process information is known to be supported by intricate connections between different neuron populations. A key objective of neuroscience research has been to delineate the ...