Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
August 11, 2026
Andreu Ballús Santacana
The low-frequency resonome of the human brain, understood as the structured hierarchy of infra-slow, delta, and theta electromagnetic field organization across approximately 0.1–8 Hz, is central to large-scale neural coordination, state transitions, sleep-wake dynamics, predictive regulation, and conscious access. Existing theories explain many aspects of these phenomena through neuronal...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
August 7, 2026
Tommaso Firaux, Paola Damiani, Marco Cavaglià
Building on the EMI framework that conceptualises consciousness, cognition, and behaviour as emergent phenomena arising from dynamic interactions among energy, mass, and information, this article extends the model into the educational domain by reframing learning as a resonance-based process within complex adaptive systems. While the initial formulation of EMI provided a scale-free biophysical...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
July 22, 2026
Carla Pallavicini, Lorena Llobenes, Federico Cavanna et al.
Psilocybin is a classic psychedelic known to alter subjective experience and induce lasting psychological changes, including increased cognitive flexibility and reduced rigid self-related beliefs. Contextual factors, including preparatory mental states, are thought to play a key role in shaping these effects. Compassion imagery, which engages care-affiliative motivational systems, may represent...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
July 17, 2026
Haruki Emori, Andrei Khrennikov, Atsushi Iriki
Cognitive neuroscience has accumulated robust findings (e.g., order effects in judgment, multi-path motor preparation, perceptual binding, attentional selection, and the recursive construction of self and time) that systematically resist explanation within classical probabilistic and causal frameworks. We argue that these are not anomalies but signatures of a deeper, non-commutative...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
July 9, 2026
Igor Pivovarov
This paper proposes TEVSER (Theory of Evolving Self-Representations), a framework describing how increasingly complex forms of regulation give rise to psyche, consciousness, and intelligence. The central idea is that a living system is a self-regulating system that maintains homeostasis. Within this perspective, regulation can be described as a hierarchy of self-representations ( Ω ), emerging...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
June 18, 2026
Chirapat Ukachoke
This study analyzes neural and behavioral events occurring before, during, and after the emergence of a pain quale and the consciousness of that pain to examine the causal efficacy of the quale and consciousness. It finds that events occurring before or concurrently with the emergence of the quale are neither caused nor influenced by the quale or consciousness. Events occurring afterward may...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
April 20, 2026
Seoyoung Lee, Seok-In Yoon, Hsien-Yin Liao et al.
The self is increasingly conceptualized as an embodied, predictive process in contemporary cognitive and affective neuroscience. The brain continually infers the causes of both exteroceptive and interoceptive signals in order to minimize prediction error and maintain allostatic balance. Within this framework, emotion can be understood as an inference about changes in bodily states. Parallel...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
April 8, 2026
Michael C Wiest, Daya S. Gupta
1 citation
Editorial: Quantum and quantum-like effects across neuroscience, volume 1.For about thirty years now a growing literature has applied quantum probability theory to successfully describe a wide range of statistical question-answering phenomena in psychology that appear irrational from a classical perspective (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11).In the present volume, (12) presents a systematic motivation...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
March 12, 2026
Chirapat Ukachoke
1 citation
This study addresses a central question in neuroscience: What is the physical nature of consciousness? Taking a neuroscientific approach, the study first establishes working definitions for its principal terms-qualia, consciousness, and information-to specify clearly the entities under investigation. It then analyzes the essential features of these defined terms. Information, in particular, is...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2026
Borros Arneth
Why some physical systems are accompanied by subjective experience remains unresolved in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Building on predictive processing and the Free Energy Principle, I propose that phenomenal consciousness (what-it-is-like-ness) arises when an information-processing system enters a regime of dynamic entropic closure: a metastable condition in which (i) internally...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2026
John Sanfey
This paper addresses the problem of integrating phenomenal consciousness with physical laws by seeking to identify and define its function. The central claim is that the hard problem is caused by the same epistemic paradox that makes quantum and classical physics mutually incompatible: the measure-theoretic limit. It is logically impossible to explain the mechanism by which state transitions...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2026
Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Elizabeth Ann Stoll
When it comes to consciousness, a central problem is a lack of clarity regarding the ontological status of the phenomenon to be explained. What kind of 'thing in the world' is consciousness? In other words, what will a naturalization of consciousness look like? Naturalization requires that every agreed property of consciousness is made continuous with the properties admitted by the natural...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2026
Francis G Smith
A central challenge in consciousness research concerns the relationship between neural activity and conscious experience. While decades of work have identified numerous neural correlates of consciousness, these findings increasingly indicate that activation magnitude, localization, or stimulus processing alone are insufficient to account for awareness. What remains less clearly articulated is...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2026
Josh Roeloffs, Jack A Tuszynski
Dual-process theory of the brain distinguishes fast, parallel, late-commitment cognition (System 1) from slow, sequential, early-commitment cognition (System 2), yet lacks a mechanistic explanation for how these modes operate or how the brain switches between them. Quantum cognition research demonstrates that human decision-making follows quantum probability models under low confidence and...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2026
Giorgia Procissi, Elena Capelli, Beatrice Riva et al.
Caregiver-infant interaction represents the space where development happens through time. According to the mutual regulation model (MRM) by Tronick, meaning-making, emotion regulation, and stress resilience all emerge from the complex fabric of caregiver-infant interaction. Within this model, the dyadic expansion of consciousness (DEC) identifies how adult caregivers and infants co-create an...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2026
Cooper Kansala, Emre Cicek, Vanessa B Nkansah-Okoree et al.
Discussions of free will often center on the question of whether actions are determined, with a special focus on causes, effects, and when subjects experience the desire to act relative to neural events. However, because the only evidence for the existence of free will is the subjective experience itself, explanation must center on the phenomenal: why do we feel free? Here, we propose a...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2026
Tam Hunt, M Bruce MacIver
Ephaptic field research has undergone a remarkable evolution spanning over nine decades, from pioneering observations in the 1930s through a period of severe scientific skepticism in the mid-20th century to a contemporary renaissance driven by advanced computational modeling, measurement techniques, and new consciousness theories. This review traces the complete chronological development of...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
September 12, 2025
D. Krishna, Deepeshwar Singh, N. K. Manjunath
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
August 26, 2025
Eyad Talal Attar
8 citations
Introduction This scientific investigation explored how meditation influences neural sound stimulus responses by employing EEG techniques during both meditative states and auditory oddball tasks. The study evaluated event-related potentials alongside theta, alpha and beta spectral power while employing machine learning techniques to distinguish meditative states from cognitive tasks. Methods...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
May 14, 2025
M. Carrasco-Gómez, A. García-Colomo, Jesús Cabrera-Álvarez et al.
Introduction Research on the influence of transcranial alternating current stimulation over alpha functional connectivity (FC) is scarce, even when it poses as a potential treatment for various diseases. This study aimed to investigate the effects of individual alpha frequency tACS (IAF-tACS) on FC within the default mode network (DMN) in healthy individuals, particularly following the triple...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2025
Raquel Aparicio-Terrés, Samantha López-Mochales, Margarita Díaz-Andreu et al.
6 citations
In electronic music events, the driving four-on-the-floor music appears pivotal for inducing altered states of consciousness (ASCs). While various physiological mechanisms link repetitive auditory stimuli to ASCs, entrainment-a brainwave synchronization through periodic external stimuli-has garnered primary focus. However, there are no studies systematically exploring the relationship between...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2025
Niclas Kaiser, Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
4 citations
Relational neuroscience struggles to capture the complex dynamics of shared interpersonal moments, leading to gaps in understanding whether and how interdependencies between interacting persons translate into something meaningful. Current neuroscientific research often focuses on motor synchronization and cognition rather than the implicit relational qualities central to psychotherapy. We argue...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2025
Evan Alexander Owens, Robert O Duncan
2 citations
Bodily Self-Consciousness (BSC) is the perception of bodily awareness that arises from the integration of neuronal signals in multiple sensory modalities. BSC is composed of embodiment (the perception of owning a body) and presence (the perception of being at a location). Converging lines of evidence suggest embodiment and presence are supported by different neural networks. Several models have...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2025
Diego Iacono, Gloria C Feltis
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and near-death experiences (NDEs) represent profound disruptions in brain function, often associated with dramatic changes in consciousness, self-perception, and behavior. While these events are typically studied for their pathological consequences, a growing body of evidence suggests they may also trigger unexpected cognitive and creative enhancements in a subset...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2025
Dwivedi Krishna, Deepeshwar Singh, N K Manjunath
Electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha asymmetry has become a pivotal area of research for understanding functional hemispheric differences in neuroscience. To the best of our knowledge, the relationship between frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) and the depth of meditation has yet to be thoroughly examined. To address this gap, the present cross-sectional study was conducted to explore the meditative...