Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 15, 2026
Imaginary Person Michael Duunul (m.a.n)
preprint
This conceptual paper proposes an exploratory hypothesis concerning the relationship between repeated cognitive priming, linguistic suggestion, visualization, metacognition, and lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a state in which an individual becomes aware that they are dreaming while the dream continues. Previous research has demonstrated that lucid dreaming can occur during REM sleep and can...
Research, Society and Development
September 15, 2026
João Acyr Chueiry Filho, Giovanna Azevedo Rodrigues, Luiz Costa et al.
Mediumship is a complex human phenomenon that can be investigated by cognitive psychiatry and consciousness neuroscience without theological assumptions or psychopathological reductionism. This study aimed to formulate and theoretically substantiate a neuroconnectomic, genetic, and psychofunctional hypothesis of mediumship as a network phenotype characterized by greater interhemispheric...
Acta Marisiensis Philologia
September 15, 2026
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Jan de Maere
This article examines the intersection of Emil Cioran’s phenomenology of temporal decay, Oswald Spengler’s morphological theory of cultural decline, and contemporary neuroaesthetic research grounded in predictive processing and embodied cognition. While both Cioran and Spengler share an intuition of civilisational exhaustion, they articulate decline through distinct epistemological frameworks:...
Warwick Research Archive Portal
September 14, 2026
M.a Begoña Rueda Ruiz
1 citation
The distinction between the mind and body, their relatedness and respective properties is perhaps the single most persistent problem that faces philosophical contemplation. Various models have been proposed in order to overcome this gaping duality: idealism, occasionalism, epiphenomenalism, behaviourism, etc.. The model proposed within this thesis corresponds to psychophysical parallelism - a...
Warwick Research Archive Portal
September 14, 2026
Vivan Joseph
We can distinguish different forms of attention, for example paying attention to what we are thinking about, paying attention to what we hear, and paying attention to what we see or otherwise visually experience. This thesis is concerned with the form of attention paid to what we visually experience – visual attention. A natural way to think of visual attention is as sufficient for visual...
Neuroimage
September 14, 2026
Luxin Fan, Xin Wen, Fa Lu et al.
Whether propofol-induced loss of consciousness (LOC) reflects a single thalamocortical transition or involves temporally dissociable local and interregional dynamics remains unclear. Using stereo-electroencephalography recordings from the anterior nucleus of the thalamus, prefrontal cortex, and temporal cortex during anesthesia induction, we quantified permutation entropy, spectral power,...
Research Square
September 14, 2026
Victor Lima De Souza, Sávio Emmerick, Cleia Zanatta
preprint
Abstract This theoretical essay investigates the relationship between contemporary psychological malaise and the impoverishment of the symbol, of meaning, and of the sacred. It sets out from the question of how the weakening of these three dimensions reverberates in human experience and in mental health. By means of interpretive reading and the critical articulation of classical and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 14, 2026
Prafful Singi, Mukul Pal Chowdhury, Rajesh Arora
preprint
While modern contemplative science has extensively investigated mindfulness and meditation techniques, the critical chronobiological variable of timing remains largely unexplored. Ancient Eastern traditions universally emphasize the pre-dawn window—traditionally termed Brahma Muhurta or Amritvela (3:00 AM – 6:00 AM)—as the optimal time for spiritual practice. This paper establishes an...
Warwick Research Archive Portal
September 13, 2026
Amber Sedgfield
It is well documented that the perinatal period (the time from pregnancy until the first year of a child’s life) is a crucial window of opportunity for foetal and infant development. Evidence suggests that parental psychopathology can have harmful consequences for the parent-infant relationship, parents’ relationship, infant’s development and later mental-health into adulthood. The focus of...
Religions
September 13, 2026
Heather Kempton
This article introduces the concept of the digital kōan, an AI-mediated contemplative prompt that functions as a catalyst for self-inquiry rather than a source of spiritual knowledge. Drawing on Buddhist psychology, cognitive science, and contemplative phenomenology, it examines how dialogue with conversational artificial intelligence can reveal the constructed nature of identity and illuminate...