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Eleftheria Pistolas

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The Multifaceted Ganzfeld at the Crossroad Between Visual Perception and Consciousness: Behavioral, Neural and Qualitative Aspects.

Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science 2025 Eleftheria Pistolas, Boris Quétard, Sucharit Katyal et al.

A Ganzfeld is a homogeneous visual field, devoid of any focal points. Such a stimulus has been used by researchers to study perceptual phenomena in the absence of changes in sensory structure. Others have used it to study altered states of consciousness (ASCs). Until now, these different facets have been studied separately with little attention for the emotional subjective experience. This...

And then there was light in the ganzfeld: clarifying the methods, experiences, and modulating factors of hallucinations and decays.

Neuroscience of Consciousness 2025 Eleftheria Pistolas, Johan Wagemans

A Ganzfeld is a homogeneous, unstructured visual field that is known to induce visual hallucinations. Aside from visual percepts emerging in participants' awareness, Ganzfeld viewing is characterized by decays of color and brightness. The studies dedicated to this topic from the 20th century have focused on these decays, although they have been reported in a confusing way, with different terms...