A scoping review for building a criticality-based conceptual framework of altered states of consciousness
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience May 25, 2023 Charles Gervais, Louis-Philippe Boucher, Guillermo Martinez Villar et al. 25 citations
The healthy conscious brain is thought to operate near a critical state, reflecting optimal information processing and high susceptibility to external stimuli. Conversely, deviations from the critical state are hypothesized to give rise to altered states of consciousness (ASC). Measures of criticality could therefore be an effective way of establishing the conscious state of an individual....