Silicon “eyes” to help people with deteriorating vision are around the corner
By Christof Koch | Jan 29, 2013 | 3
Functional MRI can peer inside your brain and watch you watching a YouTube clip
By Christof Koch | Dec 29, 2012 | 1
What can we learn about consciousness from anesthetized patients?
By Christof Koch | Sep 20, 2012 | 13
New research sheds light--literally--on recall mechanisms
By Christof Koch | Jul 18, 2012 | 2
To the great surprise of many, psilocybin, a potent psychedelic, reduces brain activity
By Christof Koch | May 15, 2012 | 9
Psychology and functional brain imaging disentangle two closely related processes, attention and consciousness
By Christof Koch | Apr 4, 2012 | 55
Cognitive psychology is mapping the capabilities we are unaware we possess
By Christof Koch | Dec 14, 2011 | 11
Using optical and genetic techniques, neuroscientists have identified an "on/off" switch for aggression in the brain
By Christof Koch | Jul 26, 2011 | 9
Some protozoa infect the brain of their host, shaping its behavior in ways most suited to the pathogen, even if it leads to the suicide of the host
By Christof Koch | May 17, 2011 | 17
An advanced brain-machine interface enables patients to control individual nerve cells deep inside their own brains
By Christof Koch | Apr 4, 2011 | 2
The ways in which brains differ from one another show up in the ways their owners perceive the world
By Christof Koch | Jan 24, 2011 | 7
Although we rarely remember our nighttime reveries, they may hold the key to consciousness
By Christof Koch | Oct 29, 2010 | 24
What stays with us, and what we forget, depends in part on how well our neurons keep time
By Christof Koch | Sep 7, 2010 | 8
When you are facing a tricky task, your view of the world may not be as accurate as you think
By Christof Koch | Aug 9, 2010 | 13
Genetic intervention cures color blindness in monkeys
By Christof Koch | Apr 14, 2010 | 4
A combination of genetics and optics gives brain scientists an unprecedented ability to dissect the circuits of the mind
By Christof Koch | Mar 5, 2010 | 4
Direct stimulation of the arousal centers in patients may restore awareness
By Christof Koch | Jan 13, 2010 | 4
Neurosurgeons evoke an intention to act during brain surgery
By Christof Koch | Nov 16, 2009 | 46
Does sentience appear in the womb, at birth or during early childhood?
By Christof Koch | Sep 2, 2009 | 39
Is complexity the secret to sentience, to a panpsychic view of consciousness?
By Christof Koch | Aug 18, 2009 | 46
Suppression and dissociation, two psychoanalytic defense mechanisms, are now studied by modern neuroscience
By Heather A. Berlin and Christof Koch | Apr 13, 2009 | 9
One sign of progress in unraveling the mind-body problem is the development of new and ingenious ways to measure consciousness
By Christof Koch | Jan 29, 2009 | 9
Bees display a remarkable range of talents—abilities that in a mammal such as a dog we would associate with consciousness
By Christof Koch | Jan 14, 2009 | 20
Clever experiments root out nooks and crannies in the brain that are hidden from your conscious awareness
By Christof Koch | Nov 19, 2008 | 12
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