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Mahsa Asadi Anar

4 papers in the library · 6 citations · publishing 2025-2026

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Cortical neuron classes and recursive curvature collapse: a neurobiological model of conscious dynamics.

Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften June 20, 2026 Seyed Kiarash Sadat Rafiei, Mahsa Asadi Anar, AmirKasra Shahinzadeh et al.

Understanding how conscious cognition remains stable under uncertainty, conflict, and perturbation requires a framework that links neural dynamics to the geometry of evolving representational states. Here we develop Recursive Informational Curvature (RIC), a neurogeometric framework in which conscious access is modeled as a stability regime of trajectories on a stratified informational...

DOI: 10.1007/s12064-026-00478-7 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Consciousness Information geometry Moral cognition Neural dynamics +4

Aesthetic Anhedonia and Psychotic Hyper-Meaning: Dysregulated Symbolic Closure Dynamics.

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science April 15, 2026 Seyed Kiarash Sadat Rafiei, Mahsa Asadi Anar 2 citations

Aesthetic anhedonia and psychotic hyper-meaning are typically treated within separate explanatory traditions: the former as a deficit of reward and motivation, the latter as a dysregulation of salience and belief formation. Phenomenologically, however, the two conditions display a striking symmetry. In severe anhedonia, patients often report not only reduced pleasure but a pervasive failure of...

DOI: 10.1007/s12124-026-09994-z (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Aberrant salience Aesthetic anhedonia Computational psychiatry Meaning formation +4

The evolution of meaning and the rise of religion and ideology

Discover Psychology October 14, 2025 Seyyed Kiarash Sadat Rafiei, Mahsa Asadi Anar 4 citations

This article advances an integrative account of the evolutionary and neurocognitive foundations of religion, ideology, and storytelling, arguing that these cultural forms emerged as adaptive responses to the existential vulnerabilities engendered by higher-order consciousness. Synthesizing insights from evolutionary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, anthropology, and philosophy, it proposes...

DOI: 10.1007/s44202-025-00442-4 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Existentialism Cognitive reframing Ideology Narrative +10