ISSN 2057-2107
20 papers in the library · 209 citations · publishing 2021-2026
Neurosci Conscious September 5, 2026
Awareness of being: a computational neurophenomenological model of mindfulness, mind-wandering, and meta-attentional control.
Neurosci Conscious August 27, 2026
From the attenuation of self-boundaries to inner peace: how nonordinary states of consciousness modulates self-experience and subjective well-being.
Neurosci Conscious August 20, 2026
Low-dose lysergic acid diethylamide alters subjective visual perception but not visual contrast surround suppression.
Neurosci Conscious May 1, 2026 correction
Correction to: GNW theoretical framework and the "adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness".
Neurosci Conscious April 22, 2026
Abstract Self-transcendent experiences (STEs) offer profound and beneficial shifts in perspective, yet remain largely inaccessible outside elite contemplative or pharmacological contexts. Although neural measures have advanced our understanding of these states, their cost and limited ecological validity restrict broader application. This study evaluates heart rate variability (HRV) amplitude, a...
Neurosci Conscious April 7, 2026 Romy Beauté, David J. Schwartzman, Guillaume Dumas et al. 3 citations
Mapping of Subjective Accounts into Interpreted Clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applied to Stroboscopic Phenomenology.
Neurosci Conscious February 19, 2026 Valeria Becattini, Michael Lifshitz, Mark Miller 1 citation
Learning to attenuate myself: a predictive processing account of body-scan meditation and the dissolution of bodily boundaries.
Neurosci Conscious February 16, 2026 Majid D Beni
This article challenges the assumption that the science of consciousness can proceed from a theory-neutral foundation. I argue that even ostensibly theory-neutral (or theory-light) programmes inevitably rely on substantive background commitments that cannot be cleanly bracketed. The analysis demonstrates that the aspiration to eliminate or minimize theory-dependence in favour of pure...
Neurosci Conscious November 6, 2025
Abstract There have been many very promising theories published concerning the generation of consciousness. These theories mostly link the emergence of consciousness to neural activity, but very few attempt to show how that neural activity specifically causes experience to occur. This article explores this problem at the level of individual networks by examining the information changes that...
Neurosci Conscious October 18, 2025 Hugh McGovern, Marco Aqil, Selen Atasoy et al. 4 citations
This article presents a neuroscientific interpretation of Carl Jung's theory of archetypes and their experience in altered states of consciousness. We begin by rehearsing the Free Energy Principle and Predictive Processing as foundational frameworks that subserve and inform the thesis that follows. The following sections examine three aspects of archetypes: the affective core rooted in...
Neurosci Conscious October 9, 2025
GNW theoretical framework and the "adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness".
Neurosci Conscious September 23, 2025 Kavindu H. Bandara, Elise G Rowe, Marta I. Garrido 2 citations
The role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in consciousness is hotly debated. Frontal theories argue that the PFC is necessary for consciousness, while sensory theories propose that consciousness arises from recurrent activity in the posterior cortex alone, with activity in the PFC resulting from the mere act of reporting. To resolve this dispute, we re-analysed an electroencephalography (EEG)...
Neurosci Conscious December 26, 2024
The case for neurons: a no-go theorem for consciousness on a chip.
Neurosci Conscious June 15, 2024 Paolo Cardone, Naji Alnagger, Jitka Annen et al. 16 citations
Modern medicine has been shaken by the surge of psychedelic science that proposes a new approach to mitigate mental disorders, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Clinical trials to investigate whether psychedelic substances can treat psychiatric conditions are now underway, yet less discussion gravitates around their use in neurological disorders due to brain injury. One...
Neurosci Conscious May 17, 2023 Lukas Kob 15 citations
Traditional contrastive analysis has been the foundation of consciousness science, but its limitations due to the lack of a reliable method for measuring states of consciousness have prompted the exploration of alternative approaches. Structuralist theories have gained attention as an alternative that focuses on the structural properties of phenomenal experience and seeks to identify their...
Neurosci Conscious August 23, 2022 Holger Lyre 30 citations
The program of "neurophenomenal structuralism" is presented as an agenda for a genuine structuralist neuroscience of consciousness that seeks to understand specific phenomenal experiences as strictly relational affairs. The paper covers a broad range of topics. It starts from considerations about neural change detection and relational coding that motivate a solution of the Newman problem of the...
Neurosci Conscious October 13, 2021 Wiktor Rorot 14 citations
The goal of the paper is to review existing work on consciousness within the frameworks of Predictive Processing, Active Inference, and Free Energy Principle. The emphasis is put on the role played by the precision and complexity of the internal generative model. In the light of those proposals, these two properties appear to be the minimal necessary components for the emergence of conscious...
Neurosci Conscious October 8, 2021 Zoran Josipovic 27 citations
Consciousness is multi-dimensional but is most often portrayed with a two-dimensional (2D) map that has global levels or states on one axis and phenomenal contents on the other. On this map, awareness is conflated either with general alertness or with phenomenal content. This contributes to ongoing difficulties in the scientific understanding of consciousness. Previously, I have proposed that...
Neurosci Conscious August 27, 2021 Camilo Miguel Signorelli, Joanna Szczotka, Robert Prentner 93 citations
Models of consciousness aim to inspire new experimental protocols and aid interpretation of empirical evidence to reveal the structure of conscious experience. Nevertheless, no current model is univocally accepted on either theoretical or empirical grounds. Moreover, a straightforward comparison is difficult for conceptual reasons. In particular, we argue that different models explicitly or...
Neurosci Conscious June 16, 2021 Will Bridewell, Alistair M C Isaac 4 citations
Abstract This study introduces a novel methodology for consciousness science. Consciousness as we understand it pretheoretically is inherently subjective, yet the data available to science are irreducibly intersubjective. This poses a unique challenge for attempts to investigate consciousness empirically. We meet this challenge by combining two insights. First, we emphasize the role that...