Andy Clark is a professor of cognitive philosophy at the University of Sussex and at Macquarie University, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy and is an ...

In this post, the last of a five-part series, we will acquire an understanding of various theories that emphasize the importance of top-down signaling in shaping and enabling conscious perception.

Your brain not only processes what you see but continuously makes predictions based on your experiences. This process may be less fine-tuned in people with autism, research suggests. When someone ...

How our brain, a three-pound mass of tissue encased within a bony skull, creates perceptions from sensations is a long-standing mystery. Abundant evidence and decades of sustained research suggest ...

According to Anil Seth, professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, “perception, instead of just being a reflection of what’s actually there in the world, is ...

Emotions are constructed, not discovered. Relational safety—not precise labels—allows the brain to tolerate uncertainty, ...

How our brain, a three-pound mass of tissue encased within a bony skull, creates perceptions from sensations is a long-standing mystery. Abundant evidence and decades of sustained research suggest ...