If you read popular science books about the brain, you might have encountered a new “grand theory” called predictive processing. If you haven’t yet, you will. Over the last two decades, it has gone ...

SEATTLE, WASH.—March 13, 2025—An international collaboration of over 50 neuroscientists and researchers is pioneering a new approach to understanding the brain: the world’s first crowd-sourced and ...

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.

In a much-publicised 2014 study, two Japanese neuroscience researchers found Brazilian soccer star Neymar used 90% less of his brain capacity – measured by neuron signals – compared to a group of ...

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 ...