Conscious experience
Subjective experience, perception, and their relation to the brain.
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Experience, cognition, and behavior.
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Brain and cognition
Neural representations, memory, and cognitive functions.
56 problemsLanguage and development
How cognitive abilities and language develop.
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Browse collectionsConsciousness and sleep
Experience, dreams, and the roles of sleep: connected subjects with distinct questions and evidence.
4 problemsLearning and intelligence
Human cognition and machine learning face different questions about learning, generalization, and goals.
32 problemsPerception and speech
How does the brain combine senses and build fluent speech?
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58 totalConsciousness
You can recognize a strawberry’s color and say “red.” How does that processing relate to the way red appears to you?
Dreaming
A sleeping mind can build vivid worlds. Do those experiences perform a function, reflect other useful processes, or do both?
Functions of sleep
Sleep is essential, but why do its benefits require a state in which an animal becomes less responsive to its surroundings?
Memory engrams
Experiences leave lasting changes in the brain. How do those changes form a memory that can be preserved, revised, and retrieved later?
Neural coding
Neural activity carries information, but which aspects of that activity does the brain actually use? A pattern readable by an analyst need not be the pattern used for behavior.
Perceptual binding
Vision assigns colors, shapes, and movements to objects. How do distributed neural representations support those assignments without mixing features from different objects?