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November 10, 2026 Trace Reddell
How iconic psychedelic records of the 1960s unleash the transformative capacity of music to expand—and unhinge—the mind. In the mid-sixties, the Beatles abandoned live performance, complaining they could no longer hear themselves on stage. Obsessed with the latest records of Bob Dylan and Brian Wilson, and with imaginations fueled by weed and acid, they retired to the studio. With the help of...
PsyArXiv Preprints November 5, 2026 preprint
Visual illusions highlight how easily our conscious experience can be altered with respect to perceptual reality. Despite sharing in-principle mechanisms with phenomenological control, i.e., the ability to alter our perceptual experience to match task demands or expectations, research tying the two remains scarce. This study aimed to replicate and extend Lush et al. (2022) by testing for a...
Epilepsia November 5, 2026 Alexis Tarrada, Coraline Hingray, Olivier Aron et al.
OBJECTIVE: Psychoses of epilepsy (POE) affect up to 13% of patients with focal epilepsy. Whereas interictal risk factors are well documented, ictal correlates of POE remain poorly characterized. We hypothesized that an impairment of ictal consciousness on the Consciousness Seizure Scale (CSS), would be associated with POE. We assessed the association between ictal clinical features and POE...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) November 4, 2026 preprint
This paper presents an independent philosophical exploration of consciousness, beginning from the idea that consciousness may exist more like fire than like a transferable object: it depends on a physical substrate, yet cannot be reduced simply to the material from which that substrate is made. The paper examines first-person experience, the problem of other minds, philosophical zombies,...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience November 4, 2026 Vignayanandam Ravindernath Muddapu, Joachim Keppler
Consciousness is a multifaceted phenomenon that scientists and philosophers have been striving to 11 understand for generations. At its core, the challenge is to provide a coherent explanation for the 12 phenomenal experiences characterizing our conscious inner lives and to reconcile phenomenal 13 qualities with the established framework of physics. Even though neuroscience has made great...
Junguiana November 4, 2026 Priscilla Wacker
Este artigo propõe uma reflexão interdisciplinar sobre a formação, a estabilidade e a vulnerabilidade da identidade do eu, articulando os estudos neurocientíficos da Rede de Modo Padrão (Default Mode Network, DMN) e os fundamentos simbólicos da psicologia analítica de C. G. Jung. Analisa-se a DMN como correlato neurofuncional do pensamento autorreferencial e o ego junguiano como estrutura...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) November 2, 2026 Shahina Samir preprint
This paper introduces the Subjective Eternity Hypothesis (SEH), a preliminary conceptual framework exploring how the human brain may construct experiences of extraordinary duration or timelessness. It investigates three proposed mechanisms: temporal expansion, retrospective memory reconstruction and subjective timelessness. DMT research and near-death experiences are examined as comparative...
Computers in Human Behavior Reports November 1, 2026 Nir Getter, Aviv Dotan, Amber Maimon et al.
Pharmacological agents and brain stimulation can modulate conscious states, but offer limited control over the structure of the experience itself. Virtual reality (VR) can alter subjective experience while allowing its structure to be experimentally controlled. Neural signal complexity has been used to characterize altered states under psychedelics and anesthesia, but its profile during...
European Journal of Neuroscience November 2026 Lena Hehemann, Lisa Stetza, Christoph Kayser
Respiration is a unique physiological process that can operate automatically but can also be deliberately used to modulate the bodily state. Importantly, respiration is deeply intertwined with neural processes, influencing functions from arousal and attention to executive control. Although structured respiration (breathing practice) has been exploited for centuries, the immediate consequences...
Neurobiology of Stress November 2026 Tatsushi Yokoyama, Yoshiharu Kim
The phenomenological closeness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and dissociative disorders has been re-emphasized in recent diagnostic nomenclature, but their common neural pathogenesis is not yet clarified. Moreover, conventional neuroimaging studies have been observational, making it fundamentally difficult to establish causal relationships between abnormalities in specific brain...