In late 2005, five months after a car accident, a 23-year-old woman lay unresponsive in a hospital bed. She had a severe brain injury and showed no sign of awareness. But when researchers scanning her ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...

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Music could provide a breakthrough in assessing consciousness levels in children who have suffered significant brain injuries, according to new research published in the journal Frontiers in ...

Music therapy can help children recover from serious brain injuries, suggests a new study. Researchers say music could provide a breakthrough in assessing consciousness levels in youngsters who have ...

Science fiction has long entertained the idea of artificial intelligence becoming conscious — think of HAL 9000, the supercomputer-turned-villain in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. With the rapid ...

During the 20th Annual John Collins Harvey lecture, held Feb. 3 by the Georgetown University Medical Center, Dr. Joseph Fins described the case of a patient in a nonresponsive state, who underwent ...

Studies of consciousness often run into a common conundrum of science—it’s hard to measure a system without the measurement affecting the system. Researchers assessing consciousness, for instance as ...

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

And perhaps, in this rapidly evolving landscape, the question of consciousness in AI systems has found its way to become a legitimate field of scholarly inquiry. A recent commentary in Nature, backed ...