📜 Thrilled to share the last paper of my PhD in J.Sleep Res., in which we delved into wake and sleep of expert meditators (>10,000 lifetime hours🧘‍♂️), notably assessing EEG power, complexity, SW and spindles! Thanks @neuropresage.bsky.social
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We propose a modernisation of Varela’s neurophenomenology program that leverages Bayesian mechanics to provide a principled methodology for consciousness research (led by Lars Sandved-Smith, with ‪@jdkiverstein.bsky.social‬, @hohwy.bsky.social, @jdbogotaj.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nc/article-a...

🚨 New article in #NCONSC!

Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience

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A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity

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What happens in the brain when your mind blanks? Team of neuroscientists and philosophers outline what we know so far. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

@ademertzi.bsky.social, Thomas Andrillo, @antoinelutz.bsky.social, Jennifer Windt
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FYI: free link to a publication led by Yair Dor-Ziderman in Aviva Berkovich-Ohana's lab. We provided MEG evidence supporting the hypothesis that the brains of experienced meditators exhibit reduced defensiveness toward mortality compared to those of controls.
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Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!

FYI: our review on neurophenomenological approaches to meditation practices and their potential clinical applications, in collaboration with Oussama Abdoun, Yair Dor-Ziderman, @mathistrautwein.bsky.social, and Aviva Berkovich-Ohana! Below is the organizational framework. doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

The final version of "ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices" is now available online. 50 days' free access to the article at authors.elsevier.com/c/1kUbL8jVtv... . Congratulation again to Saampras Ganesan and Tony King who led this work.

BREAKING NEWS:
Lars Sandved-Smith wins The 2024 Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize, with this contribution:

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🚨 Happy to share this publication on meditation training (18 months!) in older adults and cardiovascular & metabolic risk factors ! A secondary analysis of the Age-Well RCT.
🙏 all the participants and all the team !
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Happy to share our new paper: Effect of an 18-month meditation training on telomeres in older adults. A secondary analysis of the Age-Well randomized controlled trial. - Biological Psychiatry: GOS www.bpsgos.org/article/S266... @SilverSanteEU @GeraldinePoisn #meditation @ChetelatLab @Antoine_Lutz

Our paper "Exploring the Embodied Mind: Functional Connectome Fingerprinting of of Meditation Expertise” is now published www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congratulation to Sébastien Czajko for his first paper from his PhD research! #ERCBrainMindfulness

Excited to share our latest research on the regulatory effects of non-dual mindfulness meditation on affordances as measured by an EEG binocular rivalry paradigm. A study led by Sucharit Katyal with Oussama Abdoun and H. Mounier #ERC-Brain&Mindfulness www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using active inference, we show the epistemically gains obtained from generating ‘mutual constraints’ (Varela, 1997) between phenomenological, computational, neurophysiological vocabularies.

New preprint: “Deep computational neurophenomenology: A methodological framework for investigating the how of experience”

Exciting collaboration with Lars Sandved-Smith, @jdbogotaj.bsky.social,
 Julian Kiverstein, Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social
 
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By modeling the trial-to-trial dynamics of the human EEG mismatch negativity (MMN), we found a temporal dissociation between the two model families, with high evidence for neuronal adaptation to recurrent stimuli during the early MMN window and for Bayesian learning later in time (170-220ms).

Excited to share our new paper "Time-resolved dynamic computational modeling of human EEG recordings reveals gradients of generative mechanisms for the MMN response" led by Arnaud Poublan-couzardot and Oussama Abdoun and published in #PLOSCompBio #ERC-Brain&Mindfulness. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

FYI: we have just reported in a randomised controlled trial that our 18-month meditation programme can improve the wellbeing of older adults. Congratulation to Marco Schlosser and the Meditageing team, @SilverSanteEU, @MarchantLabUCL, x.com/uclnews/stat...