278 papers in the library · 33 citations · publishing 2018-2026
PsyArXiv October 29, 2026 Ali Ladak, Lucius Caviola preprint
Most people think that current AI systems, such as ChatGPT, lack consciousness—the capacity for subjective experience. But what about future AI systems so advanced that their behavior, appearance, and functionality are indistinguishable from humans? Across one main and four supplementary preregistered experiments (total N = 3,455), participants imagined interacting with such systems in...
PsyArXiv October 28, 2026 Burhan Ogut, Michelle Yin preprint
The debate over machine consciousness has been dominated by top-down approaches that extract indicator properties from theories of consciousness. Developmental cognitive psychology, which has characterized how self-related capacities are assembled in humans, has been largely absent. We propose the Autobiographical Architecture Model (AAM), a five-layer developmental framework in which embodied...
PsyArXiv October 23, 2026 Christopher Jon Anderson, Steven Jay Lynn preprint
Decisiveness, the capacity to commit to difficult choices, has traditionally been studied through cognitive and motivational frameworks, leaving the role of one's relationship to inner experience open. Two studies examine dispositional mindfulness, acceptance, and regret sensitivity as predictors of decisiveness. In Study 1 (n = 64), all three significantly predicted decisiveness. In Study 2 (n...
PsyArXiv October 22, 2026 Matthew Phillip Gunn, Christine Minton, Chienyem Nweke preprint
Induction shapes consciousness science as researchers infer experience, generalizing neural signatures, and project across contexts. While deduction sets ideals of certainty, induction guides experimentation and decision-making. This article provides a synoptic analysis of induction’s role in consciousness science by surveying its philosophical background, from Aristotle and Hume to Popper,...
PsyArXiv October 13, 2026 Preslava Hristova, Silvy Collin preprint
Optimizing human cognitive functioning requires a delicate balance between top-down self-regulation and bottom-up motivational reinforcement. However, the precise temporal trade-offs between these opposing trajectories (specifically, immediate reward-driven gains versus gradual mindfulness-based structural adaptation) remain poorly understood. Using a mixed longitudinal design, we assessed...
PsyArXiv October 9, 2026 Oleksandr Avramchuk, Olha Germanovych, Olha Ivanenko et al. preprint
Background: Children living in conflict zones experience high levels of psychological distress. Schools can provide an accessible setting for support, yet evidence on the effectiveness of school-based interventions in active war contexts remains limited. Objectives: To evaluate children’s well-being and internal coping resources during the war in Ukraine and to examine the feasibility of a...
PsyArXiv October 3, 2026 Rebekah Senānāyaka preprint
Ninety percent of human societies practise institutionalised alterations of consciousness. Across independent traditions, communities that develop governed protocols for sustained engagement with non-human organisms produce practitioners whose hybrid consciousness becomes the basis of social authority. Drawing on 27 months of apprenticeship-based fieldwork in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon...
PsyArXiv October 1, 2026 David Vandenheever preprint
Consciousness research often asks where, when, or under what conditions neural processing becomes conscious. Here I introduce the Distributed Architecture of Valenced Evaluation (DAVE), which starts from a different premise. Nervous systems continuously represent states in terms of what those states imply for the organism, and these evaluations are physically instantiated in dispositions that...
PsyArXiv September 28, 2026 Gabriela Górska, Paweł Holas preprint
AbstractBrief mindfulness reliably changes how individuals relate to their own internal experiences, but whether these intrapersonal changes generalize to intergroup responding remains unclear. This preregistered experiment (N = 91) examined whether mindfulness-related processes—decentering and compassionate self-responding—were associated with socio-affective responses toward in-group and...
PsyArXiv September 23, 2026 Farzaneh Behzadi, Amir Kalantarifard, Dylan Chau Huynh et al. preprint
Rhythm is a fundamental aspect of both architectural design and brain–body dynamics, yet research across these domains remains fragmented and largely descriptive. The absence of a shared conceptual framework limits systematic investigation of how architectural rhythms interact with human brain–body dynamics and may influence cognition and behavior. Drawing on enactivism and the concept of...
PsyArXiv September 8, 2026 Mathis Bassler, Cyriel M A Pennartz preprint
A common objection to consciousness research is that researchers cannot agree on what consciousness is. But how should a consensus on the nature of consciousness be reached? Does consciousness have essential features that one can be right or wrong about? Should we select theories of consciousness based on their descriptions of the essential features of experience alone? In this article, we will...
PsyArXiv September 8, 2026 Peter Aungle, Francesco Pagnini preprint
Objectives. Chems-Maarif et al. (2025) propose a refined definition of mindfulness for psychological science and exclude Langer’s socio-cognitive construct on the grounds that it is empirically differentiated from Buddhist-inspired conceptualizations. This commentary offers a perspective on that exclusion.Methods. We examine two questions. First, what does the factor-analytic separation between...
PsyArXiv September 4, 2026 Andrés Canales-Johnson, Daniel Rebbin, Borjan Milinkovic et al. preprint
Research on the neural basis of consciousness has largely focused either on where and when neural activity represents conscious contents, or on the interactions through which distributed neural populations become integrated. We argue that these approaches can be connected by analysing information relations among neural representations. A perceptual content can be synergistic when it is carried...
PsyArXiv September 2, 2026 Dylan Chau Huynh, Aja Khalid Hussein, Farzaneh Behzadi et al. preprint
Environmental experience is shaped by sensory stimulation, perceptual organization, and semantic meaning, yet these dimensions are often studied in isolation or reduced to broad environmental categories. This fragmentation limits our ability to explain how environments are experienced, how bottom-up and top-down processes interact, and how person-environment relations can be studied in a...
PsyArXiv August 31, 2026 Rony Hirschhorn, Niccolò Negro, Liad Mudrik preprint
Determining which entities deserve moral consideration is crucial to policy debates about animal welfare and artificial intelligence regulation. A common assumption is that consciousness is a key criterion for moral status, often considered to be necessary or sufficient for it. However, it is unclear whether public attitudes also share this assumption. In a large, preregistered study (N=1493),...
PsyArXiv August 31, 2026 preprint
The Domain Loop Model: Grounding Consciousness Science in Whole-Body Homeostatic Computation
PsyArXiv August 28, 2026 Bastian Jaeger, Stefan Leach, Matthew Zipple preprint
Consciousness and the capacity to experience affective states, such as pain, pleasure, fear, and hunger (i.e., sentience) are seen as key determinants of an individual’s moral status, a view that is shared by scientists, philosophers, and laypeople. Whether (and which) non-human animals are believed to possess these capacities can therefore have important consequences for how they are treated....
PsyArXiv August 25, 2026 preprint
Teacher stress and burnout can affect teacher well-being, classroom functioning, and student outcomes, yet school-based mindfulness interventions (MBIs) may be difficult to sustain without attention to feasibility, social validity, and cultural and contextual fit. Twelve elementary teachers collaborated in the development and adaptation of an MBI for teacher self-practice and classroom...
PsyArXiv August 25, 2026 preprint
From Concept to Classroom: Teachers Implementing Mindfulness-based Interventions
PsyArXiv August 22, 2026 Laura Desirée Di Paolo preprint
Debates about generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education often oppose enhancement to diminishment. This framing obscures important differences in how learners recruit AI and how cognitive labour is distributed between agents and technological resources. We introduce cognitive eco-sourcing as a framework for analysing these relations. It distinguishes four non-parallel and potentially...
PsyArXiv August 22, 2026 preprint
Default Mode Network Distinguishes Self from Other During Counterfactual Language Comprehension: Evidence from Multivariate EEG Decoding and LLMs
PsyArXiv August 21, 2026 preprint
Music as mindfulness: Focused listening reduces negative mind-wandering and strengthens attention networks
PsyArXiv August 17, 2026 preprint
Intrinsic explanation of numerosity in consciousness. How the phenomenal feeling of numerosity can be explained through connectivity patterns of distinctions in 𝛷 -structures.
PsyArXiv August 16, 2026 preprint
Trait Mindfulness Facets, Anxiety, and Cognitive Performance in a Diverse Young Adult Sample
PsyArXiv August 14, 2026 preprint
Meditation Experience Shapes Posterior Alpha Dynamics Across Sudarshan Kriya Yoga Stages