Consciousness and the Brain

The nuts and bolts underlying human action.

Ezequiel Morsella is an Assistant Professor of Social Cognitive Neuroscience at San Francisco State University and an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. See full bio

October 2, 2009

Consciousness: The Brain's Wifi System

Consciousness functions like the brain's wifi system to integrate processes that would otherwise be independent.

October 1, 2009

Perception: More than Meets the Eye

Why water tastes good but hydrogen-peroxide doesn't reveals the nature in which we represent the world out there. Our conscious life is a creation, like 'The Matrix,' but unlike The Matrix, it is a creation that is good for our survival. Read More

September 1, 2009

Don't Catch a Lizard by the Tail

How the unintelligent and unconscious cells in a wiggling, detached lizard tail can ever give rise to our intelligent, conscious mind is one of the greatest mysteries in science. Read More

Books by Ezequiel Morsella

Oxford Handbook of Human Action (Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience)

Expressing Oneself / Expressing One's Self: Communication, Cognition, Language, and Identity

Neuroscience Basics

The human brain has been called the most complex object in the known universe, and in many ways it's the final frontier of science. A hundred billion neurons, close to a quadrillion connections between them, and we don't even fully understand a single cell.

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