How is conscious experience related to material brain processes? A variety of theories
aiming to answer this age-old question have emerged from the recent surge in …

As for hypertension, chronic pain, epilepsy and other disorders with particular symptoms, a
commonly accepted and unambiguous definition provides a common ground for …

Prominent accounts of sentient behavior depict brains as generative models of organismic
interaction with the world, evincing intriguing similarities with current advances in generative …

How does consciousness vary across the animal kingdom? Are some animals 'more
conscious' than others? This article presents a multidimensional framework for …

There have been a number of advances in the search for the neural correlates of
consciousness—the minimum neural mechanisms sufficient for any one specific conscious …

Deep non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM) and general anesthesia with propofol are
prominent states of reduced arousal linked to the occurrence of synchronized oscillations in …

Acute pain is a physiological response that causes an unpleasant sensory and emotional
experience in the presence of actual or potential tissue injury. Anatomically and …

Various theories for the neural basis of consciousness have been proposed, suggesting a
diversity of neural signs and mechanisms. We ask to what extent this diversity is real, or …

Consciousness can be conceptualized as varying along at least two dimensions: the global
state of consciousness and the content of conscious experience. Here, we highlight the …

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 …