The absence of in-person classes posed numerous challenges for students this semester, however, for students with disabilities, a COVID-19-conscious learning format presents new, unique challenges.

Whenever we have to acquire new knowledge under stress, the brain deploys unconscious rather than conscious learning processes. Neuroscientists have discovered that this switch from conscious to ...

To understand human consciousness, we need to know why it exists in the first place. New experimental evidence suggests it may have evolved to help us learn and adapt to changing circumstances far ...

Humans have a "robust" capacity to learn and retain new information unconsciously, retaining so-called habit memory even when conscious or declarative learning is absent, memory experts at the ...

On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, UNRIC spoke to Dr. Eleonore Smalle*, a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University (Belgium) and a lecturer at Tilburg University (the ...

Assessing awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOCs) is difficult, as clinicians cannot rely on explicit reports. Using a simple classical conditioning paradigm, Bekinschtein et al.