A Neurocognitive Framework for Psychedelics as Learning Opportunities
April 16, 2024 Sonny Mattek preprint
Existing neurocognitive theories have mainly concentrated on the disruptive aspects of psychedelics, such as cognitive disruption, cortical-thalamic filtering disturbances, and disordered/entropic brain states, but they fail to fully account for the emergence of new beneficial behaviors, responses, and insights. This paper proposes a novel framework that shifts the focus from the disruptive...