Our culture is divided between those who recognize how racism has endangered and oppressed people of color in our country, and those who are threatened by difference and believe they “make the rules.” ...

Two concepts—acquisition and learning—play key roles in the study of language. Although there are people who use the two terms interchangeably, in reality they embody two different processes in the ...

Humans have learned to travel through space, eradicate diseases and understand nature at the breathtakingly tiny level of fundamental particles. Yet we have no idea how consciousness—our ability to ...

The "superconscious aspects" of the human mind should be studied and explored just as much as the unconscious and conscious ...

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 ...

Cardiff University and University College London provide funding as founding partners of The Conversation UK. As the very word used to describe it has been “worn smooth by a million tongues”, ...

Remarkable new applications of artificial intelligence (AI) seem to hit the headlines at an ever-increasing frequency these days. Whether enabling faster, more accurate diagnoses for cancer patients ...

The unconscious mind, often shortened to just “the unconscious”, refers to the processes that occur in the human mind automatically and that are not available for introspection. From our morning news ...

If an unconscious person responds to smell through a slight change in their nasal airflow pattern -- they are likely to regain consciousness. This is the conclusion from a new study. If an unconscious ...

Sometimes when I ask myself why I’ve made a certain choice, I realize I don’t actually know. To what extent we are ruled by things we aren’t conscious of? – Paul, 43, London Why did you buy your car?