The brain can be viewed as a multitiered evolutionary organ. Jason Brown’s microgenetic theory stipulates that the mind unfolds through successive phases from the brain stem, through the limbic system, towards the outer limits of the cortex, recapitulating the brain’s evolutionary and developmental history. While this progression and its phases have been documented throughout the literature, it...
The lack of standardized, efficient, and dependable lucid dream induction methods is one of the major barriers to studying the clinical and non-clinical applications of dream lucidity. Although the interest in therapeutic usage of lucid dreaming strategies in neuroscience of consciousness studies has increased in recent decades, many of the current induction approaches appear to not be...
Contemporary cognitive science attempts to provide computational models that describe how consciousness and emotion constitute adaptive behavior. Given the recent neurobiological view that highlights the fact that the cognitive and emotional regions of the brain work together to achieve conscious behavior, it was shown that signal-detection theory (SDT) can effectively capture the notion of the...
The "neurotheology" developed by d'Aquili and Newberg is critiqued, beginning with its modular conception of mental process and its understanding of the contribution of language, deafferentation, and autonomic and limbic arousal in mystical experience.Neurotheology makes claims about ultimate reality and the neuropsychological means of its realization.A spatial perception that conveys the sense...