Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 11, 2026
Oliva Fmoo
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Short Description An exploration of hypnagogic and hypnopompic states as perceptual thresholds between sleep and wakefulness. The text proposes sustained presence at the threshold as a method for investigating experiences that may otherwise remain unseen and unconceived. Abstract This work investigates the phenomenology of hypnagogic and hypnopompic states as potential thresholds for exploring...
PsyArXiv Preprints
October 11, 2026
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Free will is one of the most enduring problems in philosophy and cognitive science, yet what, exactly, requires explanation remains unclear. The most tractable target is the experience of free will – the vivid sense of self-authorship, control, and a felt capacity to have done otherwise. As with the scientific study of mystical experiences, this phenomenology can be investigated without...
The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery
October 11, 2026
Mahmoud Ahmed Bekiet, Sahar Marei Zaki Youssef, Ahmed Jado Nabih Ali
Abstract Background Dreams reflect memory processes, incorporating long-term and autobiographical experiences. Early childhood memories, though often inaccessible consciously, may persist implicitly and appear symbolically in dreams, especially during emotional processing. This study aims to assess the frequency and themes of childhood-related memories in adult dreams in Luxor. Methods This...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
October 10, 2026
Biplab Das, L. Mallick, S. Adhikari
The Baul community represents one of Bengal’s distinctive folk-cultural and spiritual traditions and has historically held a significant place in the social and cultural life of rural Bengal. Although Bauls are widely recognized for their music and mystical philosophy, their contribution extends beyond artistic expression to questions of social equality, human dignity, inter-religious...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 10, 2026
Syed Muntasir Mamun
preprint
K SC This anatomical review examines Valerio Capraro's (2026) conceptualisation of LLMorphism—the biased belief that human cognition operates analogously to large language models (LLMs)—as introduced in arXiv:2605.05419. The paper is dissected sectionally: from its diagnosis of reverse inference arising from conversational fluency, through mechanisms of analogical transfer and metaphorical...
Cortica
October 10, 2026
Ayla Gay
Altered states of consciousness (ASCs) induced by psychological practices (mindfulness meditation, hypnosis, self-induced trance) and pharmacological agents (classical and atypical psychedelics) are increasingly linked to therapeutic change, yet their shared and unique neural signatures remain uncertain. We conducted three preregistered, coordinate-based meta-analyses using SDM-PSI, mindfulness...
Psychological Research
October 9, 2026
Pablo Rodríguez-San Esteban, Mariagrazia Capizzi, José Andrés González-López et al.
Can alerting retro-cues improve the conscious perception of stimuli that would otherwise remain unseen? While pre-stimulus alerting is known to facilitate conscious access, the effects of retro-cues remain ambiguous due to methodological confounds in existing literature. Specifically, most studies finding retro-cue benefits have relied on spatial features (such as lateralized targets or cues),...
Philosophies
October 9, 2026
Rein Raud
Contemporary psychiatry no longer views a large number of people who diverge from the “neurotypical” paradigm as patients who need to be “cured”, but simply as otherwise fully functional people with certain idiosyncrasies, and even the currently applicable label “disorder” has been challenged in the literature. The questions that need to be asked by philosophy of mind are thus not the classical...
Psychopathology
October 9, 2026
Giovanni Stanghellini, Giorgia Cuffaro
Phenomenological research has long provided a foundation for understanding the schizophrenic condition as a whole, yet its contribution to borderline personality disorder (BPD) remains comparatively scattered across different lines of inquiry. Existing phenomenological studies on BPD typically focus on fragmented lived temporality, dysphoric mood, emotion dysregulation and anomalies of lived...
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
October 9, 2026
Amir Jahanian Najafabadi, Matthew R Longo, Roman Liepelt
Two fundamental aspects of research on bodily self-consciousness, agency and body ownership, have recently seen exponential growth. The seminal paper of Botvinick and Cohen in 1998 provided a vital psychophysical tool for studying the bodily self - the rubber hand illusion, in which one feels as if an external object becomes a part of one's body. Recent motor control views of ownership...