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.” ...

Boris Vazquez-Calvo is principal investigator of two funded research projects: (1) SEGUE: Social Media and Video Games in language learning and teaching of student teachers (ref.: B1-2021_33, ...

In a few months, this blog will turn 15 years of age. How time flies when one is thinking about consciousness and the brain! I think the 15-year mark is a good point at which to write a series of ...

Almost all the brain’s activity happens below the level of consciousness. Your unconscious has many vital functions – from controlling breathing to processing incoming information – but there are also ...

I think they’re both talking about the same thing: how there is what we have agreed is real existing in a state of constant tension with what we know to actually be real. We are insects driven by ...

Human consciousness, the lens through which we experience life, is a hard thing to pin down in the brain — especially in people who have experienced traumatic brain injury and can’t tell us that their ...

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 ...