In adult life, people normally know what they are doing. This experience of controlling one's
own actions and, through them, the course of events in the outside world is called'sense of …

Is consciousness a continuous stream of percepts or is it discrete, occurring only at certain
moments in time? This question has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and …

WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain
and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness …

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive
science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of …

How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view—both in academia and in the
popular press—that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders …

The term “predictive brain” depicts one of the most relevant concepts in cognitive
neuroscience which emphasizes the importance of “looking into the future”, namely …

Most models of sensory processing in the brain have a feedforward architecture in which
each stage comprises simple linear filtering operations and nonlinearities. Models of this …

Perceiving other people's behaviors activates imitative motor plans in the perceiver, but
there is disagreement as to the function of this activation. In contrast to other recent …

Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself an
illusion? Am I conscious now? Now considered the'last great mystery of science' …

Much is known about the pathways from photoreceptors to higher visual areas in the brain.
However, how we become aware of what we see or of having seen at all is a problem that …