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Ian Gold

4 papers in the library · 19 citations · publishing 2009-2025

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“I was trying to save the world”: delusion-like ideation and associated impacts reported by Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation

Frontiers in Psychology October 24, 2025 Elizaveta Solomonova, Jared R. Lindahl, Ian Gold et al. 1 citation

Delusional ideation is characteristic of psychopathology (e.g., psychosis, bipolar disorder) and is also found among the general population. Contemporary case studies have documented delusional ideation as a feature of meditation-induced psychosis, and Buddhist literature on the side effects and adverse effects of meditation also includes discussion of transient experiences that could be...

Socially Distanced: An Exploratory Study of the Relationships Between Delusional Ideation and Social Imagery Under the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Research Square November 15, 2022 Kennedy Robertson, Ian Gold, Samuel P. L. Veissière et al.

Abstract Purpose: Delusional ideation, defined as false beliefs and altered thinking, has long been attributed to anomalous/bizarre perceptual experiences and reasoning deficits. Recent studies, however, have challenged this view, suggesting instead that delusional ideation may have more of a social component to its phenomenology and underlying mechanisms. This study investigated associations...

Nightmares are Associated with Greater Perceived Sleep Debt

January 28, 2022 Sophie Smith, Sofia Hempelmann Perez, Sara Carling et al. preprint

Nightmares are intense emotional experiences that can greatly alter sleep quality and affect most people at some point in their lives. Yet little research has focused on the relationship between nightmares and the subjective experience of sleep quality. In this study, we aimed at investigating the relationship between nightmare frequency, subjective sleep duration, subjective estimation of...

The Embedded Neuron, the Enactive Field?

Oxford University Press eBooks September 2, 2009 Mazviita Chirimuuta, Ian Gold 18 citations

Abstract This article examines the concept of the receptive field (RF) of visual neurons. It introduces the concept of visual RFs by discussing the classical picture of primary visual cortex (V1) physiology and discusses the psychophysics and computational vision of contrast discrimination to place the visual neurophysiology in context. It evaluates some recent data which questioned the...