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Exploring the role of micro-valence in the phenomenal space: insights from similarity judgments and deep learning models Abstract. Is valence an intrinsic dimension of conscious experience, as different authors have suggested? If so, all conscious experiences, and hence all c

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Exploring the role of micro-valence in the phenomenal space: insights from similarity judgments and deep learning models
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Rapid eye movement sleep displays distinct fractal dynamics between phasic and tonic states Abstract. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep consists of phasic and tonic microstates with unique neurophysiological properties, yet their fractal characterist

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Rapid eye movement sleep displays distinct fractal dynamics between phasic and tonic states
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Mid-level perceptual features, and not ambiguity, accelerate access to awareness Abstract. Current theoretical accounts of perception and high-level cognition suggest that awareness plays an active role in disambiguating incoming sensor

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Mid-level perceptual features, and not ambiguity, accelerate access to awareness
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Learning to attenuate myself: a predictive processing account of body-scan meditation and the dissolution of bodily boundaries Abstract. Meditation practices often involve sustaining attention on the body. Typically, attention is understood to enhance both neural resource allocatio

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Learning to attenuate myself: a predictive processing account of body-scan meditation and the dissolution of bodily boundaries
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Against (theory-neutral) method (in consciousness science) Abstract. This article challenges the assumption that the science of consciousness can proceed from a theory-neutral foundation. I argue that even ostensib

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Against (theory-neutral) method (in consciousness science)
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Beyond computational equivalence: the behavioral inference principle for machine consciousness Abstract. Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly become a central topic in AI and cognitive science, due to their unprecedented performance in a vast ar

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Beyond computational equivalence: the behavioral inference principle for machine consciousness
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Modulation of sensory attenuation by intensive meditation practice: an active inference perspective Abstract. Active inference describes motor action as a prediction-driven inferential process, whereby ascending proprioceptive prediction errors are attenu

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Modulation of sensory attenuation by intensive meditation practice: an active inference perspective
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Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep Abstract. Dreams have arguably been a source of creative insight for millennia. The specific assertion that dreams during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep pr

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Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep
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The sense of agency in near and far space: where do we stand? Abstract. Modern technology frequently places the consequences of our actions at a distance (e.g. remote surgery, smart-home control, virtual reality). Doe

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The sense of agency in near and far space: where do we stand?
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Evaluating Alzheimer's disease with the TMS-EEG perturbation complexity index Abstract. The Perturbation Complexity Index—State Transitions (PCIST) measures the complexity of the brain’s response to transcranial magnetic stimulation

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Evaluating Alzheimer's disease with the TMS-EEG perturbation complexity index
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Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness Abstract. Non-dual awareness (NDA) refers to a shift in consciousness in which the usual distinction between subject and object dissolves, and experience i

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Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness
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Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report Abstract. Although in recent years some studies have found evidence suggesting that working memory (WM) may operate on unconscious perceptual contents, dec

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Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report
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Contingency awareness shapes neural responses in fear conditioning Abstract. Contingency awareness refers to an observer’s ability to identify the association between a conditioned and an unconditioned stimulus (US). A wid

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Contingency awareness shapes neural responses in fear conditioning
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Investigating the role of beta and gamma tACS in visual processing and conscious perception Abstract. It has been proposed that both conscious and unconscious perception are associated with a feedforward sweep of oscillatory activity in the gamma

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Investigating the role of beta and gamma tACS in visual processing and conscious perception
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Sound frequency predicts the bodily location of auditory-induced tactile sensations in synesthetic and ordinary perception Abstract. For individuals with sound-touch synesthesia, sounds consistently evoke strong, localized sensations on the body. We systematically investigated

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Sound frequency predicts the bodily location of auditory-induced tactile sensations in synesthetic and ordinary perception
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Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery
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Functional connectivity drifts during sleep as a marker of fluctuations in the level of consciousness Abstract. During the wake–sleep cycle, consciousness waxes and wanes, and this is thought to be reflected in varying levels of integration between brain ar

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Functional connectivity drifts during sleep as a marker of fluctuations in the level of consciousness
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Now is the time: operationalizing generative neurophenomenology through interpersonal methods Abstract. Lived experience is shaped by intersubjective, social, cultural, and historical dimensions. For the past 30 years, neurophenomenology has adopted

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Now is the time: operationalizing generative neurophenomenology through interpersonal methods
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Psilocybin-induced modulation of visual salience processing Abstract. Psychedelic compounds significantly reshape conscious perception, yet the implications of these alterations for complex visual-guided behaviors r

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Psilocybin-induced modulation of visual salience processing
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Brain–body interactions associated with the transition from mind wandering to awareness of its occurrence Abstract. Our thoughts are inherently dynamic and often wander far from our current situation (mind wandering, MW). Although previous research revealed tha

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Brain–body interactions associated with the transition from mind wandering to awareness of its occurrence
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Neural field modeling and analysis of consciousness states in the brain Abstract. Understanding the neural correlates of consciousness remains a central challenge in neuroscience. In this study, we explore the potential of neur

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Neural field modeling and analysis of consciousness states in the brain
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Qualia structures collapse for geometric shapes, but not faces, when spatial attention is withdrawn Abstract. Top-down attentional amplification is often assumed to affect ‘what’ we see, that is, the contents of conscious experience. Previously, this clai

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Reimagining pain as an allostatic imperative: perspectives from contemplative traditions Abstract. The motivational force of pain is undeniable. But what pain commands us to do, how we might satisfy this command, and if our experience of pain i

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Reimagining pain as an allostatic imperative: perspectives from contemplative traditions
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Lifting the veil: probing altered visual perception in derealization Abstract. During an acute episode of depersonalization/derealization (DP/DR), people report a complex and idiosyncratic change in their perceptual experien

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Lifting the veil: probing altered visual perception in derealization
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Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG Abstract. While the beneficial impacts of meditation are increasingly acknowledged, its underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. We examined

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Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG
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Training can enhance unconscious response priming on fast trials even when measuring consciousness on a trial-by-trial basis Abstract. Measuring awareness on a trial-by-trial basis might impose a multi-task cost on the observed effect. Here, we examined this potential cost, askin

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Training can enhance unconscious response priming on fast trials even when measuring consciousness on a trial-by-trial basis
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Perceptual and attentional uncertainty impact global performance monitoring Abstract. We have a fair understanding of what contributes to our confidence when performing individual trials of a task. However, little is known regardin

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Perceptual and attentional uncertainty impact global performance monitoring
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Specific mechanisms linking network information processing to the generation of qualia Abstract. There have been many very promising theories published concerning the generation of consciousness. These theories mostly link the emergence of co

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Specific mechanisms linking network information processing to the generation of qualia
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Does transliminality predict subperceptual information processing?
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Neural correlates of unconscious processing in functional magnetic resonance imaging: does brain activity contain more information than can be consciously reported?
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