Among brain researchers there’s a truism that says the reason people underestimate how much unconscious processing goes on in your brain is because you’re not conscious of it. And while there is a lot ...

You’re sitting at home, working at your laptop, and all of a sudden you hear the refrigerator shut off. Before you noticed its sudden silence, were you conscious it was on? That sort of question about ...

Threat-related motifs, such as being chased or attacked, also appear among the most frequently reported dream themes across ...

Could artificial intelligence (AI) systems become conscious? A trio of consciousness scientists say that, at the moment, no one knows — and they are expressing concern about the lack of inquiry into ...

As the very word used to describe it has been "worn smooth by a million tongues", consciousness is a fertile topic for confusion. We all know what it is to be conscious. It is, basically, being aware ...

Unconscious bias, also known as implicit bias or implicit social cognition, is the concept that many of our everyday decisions are made on an unconscious level (Banaji. 2013). It refers to the ...

A century ago, Sigmund Freud, in the spirit of scientific inquiry and after years of research as a neurologist, published The Interpretation of Dreams. The book began his exploration of the mind and ...