Cortex
September 1, 2026
Elisabetta Colombari, Giorgia Parisi, Sonia Mele et al.
Disclosing the brain areas responsible for the emergence of visual awareness and their timing of activation represents one of the major challenges in consciousness research. In particular, isolating the neural processes strictly related to consciousness from concurrent neural dynamics, either related to prerequisites or post-perceptual processing, has long engaged consciousness research. In...
Cortex
April 19, 2026
Situation model manipulations differently engage semantic and default mode networks during narrative comprehension.
Cortex
May 18, 2009
Sustained activity within the default mode network during an implicit memory task.
Cortex
October 31, 2008
Sally Easton, Olaf Blanke, Christine Mohr
56 citations
Self-processing has been related to the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) as well as to their connectivity. So far, out-of-body experiences (OBEs), impressive transient deviations of intact bodily self-integration, could be associated with the TPJ, but the mediation by the frontal lobe, and thus fronto-parietal connectivity, is yet unknown. Thus, we assessed...
Cortex
June 6, 2008
J. Allan Cheyne, Todd A. Girard
125 citations
Among the varied hallucinations associated with sleep paralysis (SP), out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and vestibular-motor (V-M) sensations represent a distinct factor. Recent studies of direct stimulation of vestibular cortex report a virtually identical set of bodily-self hallucinations. Both programs of research agree on numerous details of OBEs and V-M experiences and suggest similar...
Cortex
June 6, 2008
Devin B. Terhune
60 citations
The visual content of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) has received little attention but a number of theories of OBEs include implicit predictions regarding the determinants of this phenomenological feature. Hypnagogic imagery and unusual sleep experiences, weak synaesthesia and preference for employing object and spatial visual imagic cognitive styles were psychometrically measured along with...