Frontiers in Neuroscience
2026
Sabrina Diny, Fabian Schmidt, Andreas Wutz et al.
Mental disorders pose a major and growing challenge for health care systems worldwide, marked by persistent treatment gaps and limited access to psychotherapeutic care. Mind-body interventions such as mindfulness and relaxation practices are widely used in clinical contexts as low-threshold strategies to support stress regulation and psychological well-being. Despite their broad application,...
Current biology : CB
May 5, 2025
Pavlos I Topalidis, Gianpaolo Demarchi, Lisa Reisinger et al.
1 citation
Imagine listening to a familiar song on the radio. As the melody unfolds, you often anticipate the following note or beat before it plays. This ability reflects the brain's capacity to extract statistical regularities from sensory input and predict future sensory events. It is considered automatic, requiring little to no conscious effort or attention.1,2,3,4,5 But to what extent is this...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
March 31, 2020
Gaëtan Sanchez, Thomas Hartmann, Marco Fuscà et al.
An increasing number of studies highlight common brain regions and processes in mediating conscious sensory experience. While most studies have been performed in the visual modality, it is implicitly assumed that similar processes are involved in other sensory modalities. However, the existence of supramodal neural processes related to conscious perception has not been convincingly shown so...
Neuroimage
June 1, 2016
Lorenzo Magazzini, Philipp Ruhnau, Nathan Weisz
The partial awareness hypothesis is a theoretical proposal that recently provided a reconciling solution to graded and dichotomous accounts of consciousness. It suggests that we can become conscious of distinct properties of an object independently, ranging from low-level features to complex forms of representation. We investigated this hypothesis using classic visual word masking adapted to a...
Scientific Reports
February 11, 2016
Julia Natascha Frey, Philipp Ruhnau, Sabine Leske et al.
We recently proposed that besides levels of local cortical excitability, also distinct pre-stimulus network states (windows to consciousness) determine whether a near-threshold stimulus will be consciously perceived. In the present magnetoencephalography study, we scrutinised these pre-stimulus network states with a focus on the primary somatosensory cortex. For this purpose participants...
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
December 1, 2015
Sabine Leske, Philipp Ruhnau, Julia Frey et al.
An ever-increasing number of studies are pointing to the importance of network properties of the brain for understanding behavior such as conscious perception. However, with regards to the influence of prestimulus brain states on perception, this network perspective has rarely been taken. Our recent framework predicts that brain regions crucial for a conscious percept are coupled prior to...