Frontiers in Psychology
June 12, 2025
Matteo Laurenzi, Antonino Raffone, Günter Ehret
The study of animal consciousness has gained new prominence, driven by progress in neuroscience, cognitive ethology, and philosophy of mind (e.g., Andrews et al., 2024;Ehret and Romand, 2022;Bayne et al., 2024;Grinde, 2024). This special issue brings together diverse contributions (i.e., empirical, theoretical, and conceptual) that propose new ways to think about the nature and evolution of...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
June 11, 2025
Manuela Kirberg, Jonathan Robinson, Jennifer Windt
3 citations
Abstract Spontaneous thoughts and experiences, such as dreaming and mind wandering, form a significant part of our conscious mental lives. Yet, the precise phenomenological and content-related similarities and differences between dreaming and waking mind wandering remain insufficiently understood. In this study, we address this gap by comparing 340 dreaming and mind wandering questionnaire...
Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
June 11, 2025
Victor Pablo Acero, Taylor A Flatt, Peter M. Gooch et al.
Psychedelic compounds are emerging treatments for depression, capable of producing rapid and lasting symptom reduction after 1-2 administrations in the context of psychotherapy - a stark contrast to traditional antidepressants. Despite promising outcomes, the mechanisms underlying psychedelics' reported antidepressant effects remain poorly understood and are often framed in fragmented ways....
Philosophies
June 10, 2025
Federico Divino
This article aims to provide a comparative analysis between Husserl’s phenomenology and the Pāli Abhidhamma. To conduct this analysis, I will mainly draw on some books of the Abhidhamma and three works by Husserl. What emerges from this study are interesting convergences between the two systems of thought, which allow us to consider, in some respects, a true Buddhist phenomenology codified in...
arXiv Preprint Archive
June 10, 2025
Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Simon Osindero
preprint
Because we are highly motivated to be understood, we created public external representations -- mime, language, art -- to externalise our inner states. We argue that such external representations are a pre-condition for access consciousness, the global availability of information for reasoning. Yet the bandwidth of access consciousness is tiny compared with the richness of `raw experience', so...
Visnyk of the Lviv University. Philosophical Sciences Series
June 1, 2025
Olga Honcharenko
The article deals with the main tenets of the philosophy of mind developed by the Ukrainian philosopher Oleksandr Kulchytskyi based on an analysis of his work «An Essay on Structural Psychology» (Munich, 1949). The signs of mental phenomena according to Kulchytskyi are considered. The philosopher identified the subjectivity of mental phenomena with internal experiences and considered them...
Schizophrenia Research: Cognition
June 1, 2025
V E De Vries, R J C Huntjens, B E Sportel et al.
1 citation
The distinction between dissociative disorders (DDs) and schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) in different categories since DSM-III presumes a clear-cut distinction between both disorders. However, empirical studies did not reveal a clear distinction between the disorders on a symptom level. The aim of the current study was to further examine the overlap and differences in symptoms between...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
June 1, 2025
Georg Northoff, Bianca Ventura
21 citations
Neuroscience faces the challenge of connecting brain and mind, with the mind manifesting in first-person experience while the brain's neural activity can only be investigated in third-person perspective. To connect neural and mental states, Neurophenomenology provides a methodological toolkit for systematically linking first-person subjective experience with third-person objective observations...
Human Brain Mapping
June 1, 2025
Wataru Sato, Takanori Kochiyama, Shota Uono
1 citation
Happiness is a subjective experience that can serve as the ultimate goal for humans. A recent study that employed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) reported that spontaneous fluctuation (fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation: fALFF) in the precuneus is negatively associated with subjective happiness. However, little is known about the neural electrical...
Elife
May 28, 2025
Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort, Philippa A. Johnson, Niels A. Kloosterman et al.
10 citations
How consciousness arises from brain activity has been a topic of intense scientific research for decades. But how does one identify the neural basis of something that is intrinsically personal and subjective? A hallmark approach has been to ask human observers to judge stimuli as 'seen' (conscious) and 'unseen' (unconscious) and use post hoc sorting of neural measurements based these judgments....
Human Arenas
May 24, 2025
Cristóbal Pacheco
This article explores the existential and therapeutic significance of stillness, silence, and contemplation as foundational practices for accessing pre-reflective dimensions of human experience. These practices are examined not as passive or ancillary techniques, but as active modalities that suspend habitual reflexivity and foster a return to embodied presence. Drawing from phenomenological...
Scientific Data
May 23, 2025
Alia Seedat, Alex Lepauvre, Jay Jeschke et al.
5 citations
We introduce an intracranial EEG (iEEG) dataset collected as part of an adversarial collaboration between proponents of two theories of consciousness: Global Neuronal Workspace Theory and Integrated Information Theory. The data were recorded from 38 patients undergoing intracranial monitoring of epileptic seizures across three research centers using the same experimental protocol. Participants...
Current Neuropharmacology
May 15, 2025
Yuanyuan Ding, Shiya Liu, Kaixin Wang et al.
1 citation
The exploration of consciousness and the elucidation of the mechanisms underlying general anesthesia are two intertwined endeavors that have significantly advanced our understanding of the neural correlates of awareness. Both fields converge on the neural systems that regulate consciousness. Frontoparietal networks, known for their involvement in executive functions, attention, and cognitive...
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
May 15, 2025
Matthew D. Lieberman
10 citations
Human subjectivity, our first-person conscious experience of the world, is among the deepest scientific mysteries. This opinion article lays out an approach to examining the neural correlates of subjectivity as it unfolds over time. Subjective experience is inherently idiosyncratic, arising from effortless interpretations that feel like perceived facts (p-interpretations), and integrative, with...
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
May 14, 2025
Ruby M. Potash, Sean D. Van Mil, Mar Estarellas et al.
7 citations
We present a neurophenomenological case study investigating distinct neural connectivity regimes during an advanced concentrative absorption meditation called jhana (ACAM-J), characterized by highly stable attention and mental absorption. Using EEG recordings and phenomenological ratings (29 sessions) from a meditator with +20,000 hr of practice, we evaluated connectivity metrics tracking...
Theory & Psychology
May 13, 2025
Davide Perrotta
This paper proposes an investigation of affective experience bridging the field of phenomenology and cognitive neuroscience. Drawing on Husserl’s phenomenology and the mainstream cognitive neuroscience approach, I will differentiate affective phenomena into two categories: emotions and feelings. According to neuroscience, Panksepp’s proposal is followed to further distinguish three forms of...
World neurosurgery
May 8, 2025
Demet Evleksiz, Abuzer Gungor, Gardashkhan Karımzada et al.
4 citations
The claustrum, a thin layer of gray matter between the insular cortex and putamen, has been a subject of anatomical and functional curiosity for centuries. Although early anatomical descriptions provide some insights, modern neuroimaging and neurosurgical studies have reignited interest in its structure and function. This study examines the historical evolution of the claustrum's terminology...
2025 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Control
May 7, 2025
Meenalosini Vimal Cruz, Disha Kumar, Ayushman Talukdar
This research paper explores the utility of Electroencephalography (EEG) in studies of consciousness. EEG is an essential tool for tracking and analyzing non-invasively cerebral activity related to the study of states of consciousness. The principles of electromagnetic activity are presented in this paper, which explains the basics of the utility of EEG in the study of consciousness and...
Journal of Pain
May 2, 2025
Peter Stilwell, Mael Gagnon-Mailhot, Anne Hudon et al.
8 citations
Suffering is a foundational yet understudied construct within the field of pain. There is general agreement that pain-related suffering involves disruption to one's sense of self. The selfhood literature characterizes two inter-related modes of self-experience. One mode entails in-the-moment experiences that shape one's stream of consciousness; another involves self-reflective thoughts about...
Biosystems
May 1, 2025
Danko D. Georgiev
4 citations
Functional theories of consciousness, based on emergence of conscious experiences from the execution of a particular function by an insentient brain, face the hard problem of consciousness of explaining why the insentient brain should produce any conscious experiences at all. This problem is exacerbated by the determinism characterizing the laws of classical physics, due to the resulting lack...