There have been a number of advances in the search for the neural correlates of
consciousness—the minimum neural mechanisms sufficient for any one specific conscious …

This review summarizes the brain mechanisms controlling sleep and wakefulness.
Wakefulness promoting systems cause low-voltage, fast activity in the …

A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously
assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack In The …

The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered
mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large …

Neuronal gamma-band synchronization is found in many cortical areas, is induced by
different stimuli or tasks, and is related to several cognitive capacities. Thus, it appears as if …

How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

Most of our knowledge about the functional organization of neuronal systems is based on
the analysis of the firing patterns of individual neurons that have been recorded one by one …

Practitioners understand “meditation,” or mental training, to be a process of familiarization
with one's own mental life leading to long-lasting changes in cognition and emotion. Little is …

Following the discovery of context-dependent synchronization of oscillatory neuronal
responses in the visual system, the role of neural synchrony in cortical networks has been …

The human brain spontaneously generates neural oscillations with a large variability in
frequency, amplitude, duration, and recurrence. Little, however, is known about the long …