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December 16, 2025
Deyan Shopin
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Contemporary accounts of hemispheric asymmetry in cognitive neuroscience predominantly emphasize neuroanatomical localization and functional specialization, while offering limited explanatory mechanisms for how lateralized neural processes become observable in embodied behavior. The Subjectica Hypothesis proposes a neurophenomenological framework in which hemispheric asymmetry is expressed not...
Frontiers in Public Health
December 16, 2025
Bingyan Meng, Jun Cao, Yunyun Wei et al.
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Amidst ongoing urbanization, understanding how to effectively enhance visitor well-being (e.g., Psychological Thriving) in accessible natural settings like urban parks is crucial. Mindfulness interventions offer a promising avenue, yet the comparative efficacy of different delivery modes (digital vs. traditional) and their underlying psychological pathways remain underexplored. Targeting this,...
The MIT Press eBooks
December 16, 2025
Stephen Fulder
Exploring Consciousness from the InsideStephen FulderConsciousness arises dependent on sense data and stimulation of the senses.Therefore it is dependent and has no self-existence.-Anguttara Nikaya 41:7 (Bodhi, 2012) Personal ReflectionsI have been interested in spiritual practice and inner exploration for most of my life.I can remember as a child, realizing that, like Mowgli in The Jungle...
The MIT Press eBooks
December 16, 2025
Or Raphael
Consciousness is mystery.Not a par tic u lar mystery-just mystery.It is a subject of countless scientific debates and theories, widely regarded as one of the greatest unresolved questions in science.In the first, theoretical section of my piece, I draw from my experience with scientific methods and spiritual practices to pre sent the idea that consciousness studies involve multiple...
Philosophical Psychology
December 16, 2025
Hüseyin Beyköylü, John Vervaeke, Daniel Meling
ABSTRACT Self-transcendent experiences (STEs) represent profound shifts in cognition and consciousness, possessing significant transformative potential. With growing scientific interest in these phenomena, we propose the cognitive continuum as a unifying framework. Grounded in enactive cognitive science and complex dynamic systems perspectives, this approach takes the embodied person, embedded...
The journal of desk research review and analysis.
December 16, 2025
M. H. M. Wickramasekara, G. D. M. C. Gonapaladeniya
Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) has emerged as a promising and innovative approach to treating a range of mental health disorders, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance use disorders. Once sidelined due to regulatory bans and social stigma, psychedelics such as psilocybin, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and...
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December 15, 2025
Deyan Shopin
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Embodied cognition and hemispheric asymmetry remain fragmented fields with unresolved explanatory gaps. Existing models describe lateralized emotional processing, motor asymmetry, and context-dependent behavior, but they lack an integrated explanation linking subjective phenomenology to measurable kinematic patterns. This article proposes the Subjectic hypothesis: a neurophenomenological model...
Neuroimage
December 15, 2025
Qingyan Kong, Yue Wang, Min Li et al.
Flow is a deeply immersive state that supports optimal performance, yet its neural basis under conditions of real-world expertise remains poorly understood. Using functional MRI, this study investigated how long-term Chinese calligraphy expertise relates to flow in a culturally meaningful setting. Expert and novice participants performed imagined embodied handwriting of Kai-Shu and Cao-Shu,...
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December 15, 2025
Zulqarnain Ali
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We present a comprehensive analysis of consciousness in artificial intelligence systems using Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 3.0 and 4.0 frameworks. Our work confirms and formalizes the established IIT result that feedforward neural architectures necessarily generate zero integrated information ( Φ = 0) under both IIT 3.0 and 4.0 formalisms. Through mathematical analysis and computational...
December 15, 2025
Lindsey Elise Wade
Depression is one of the most prevalent and burdensome mental health conditions worldwide, affecting millions and contributing to over 700,000 deaths by suicide annually. Nearly half of patients with major depressive disorder fail to respond adequately to standard antidepressant treatments such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Psilocybin-assisted therapy (PAT) has emerged as...