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Athena Demertzi (co-EiC) @ademertzi
Thomas Andrillon (co-EiC) @thomasandrillon
Ben Kozuch (DepEd) @benjikozuch
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Neuroscience of Consciousness | Oxford Academic
An open access journal that publishes papers on the biological basis of consciousness, with an emphasis on empirical neuroscience studies in healthy populations and clinical settings.
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Meta-representations as representations of processes
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Meta-representations as representations of processes
Abstract. In this study, we explore how the notion of meta-representations in higher-order theories (HOT) of consciousness can be implemented in computatio
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October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking
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Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking
Abstract. Affective stimuli, such as fearful faces, are assumed to receive prioritized processing over neutral stimuli, making them easier to detect when p
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October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Commentary on the @nature.com article for the @arc-cogitate.bsky.social

GNW theoretical framework and the “adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness”
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GNW theoretical framework and the “adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness”
A recent publication in Nature (Cogitate et al. 2025) aimed at enriching the progressive build-up of a valid theory of conscious processing using valuable
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October 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Look what I did this summer! I had the pleasure of writing a review paper on three kinds of multisensory-emotional experience, with Hirohito Kondo and Erin Hannon.

This is submitted to a special issue of @nconsc.bsky.social on Embodied and Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness.

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September 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Daily dynamics of the temporal orientations of mind wandering: chronotype matters!
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Daily dynamics of the temporal orientations of mind wandering: chronotype matters!
Abstract. Theoretical accounts link mind wandering with attentional and executive processes, both of which exhibit time-of-day fluctuations influenced by c
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September 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness
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The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness
Abstract. It is well known that in interdisciplinary consciousness studies there are various competing hypotheses about the neural correlate(s) of consciou
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September 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Computational modelling shows evidence in support of both sensory and frontal theories of consciousness
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Computational modelling shows evidence in support of both sensory and frontal theories of consciousness
Abstract. The role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in consciousness is hotly debated. Frontal theories argue that the PFC is necessary for consciousness, wh
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September 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Metacognition in putative magno- and parvocellular vision
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Metacognition in putative magno- and parvocellular vision
Abstract. A major distinction in early visual processing is the magnocellular (MC) and parvocellular (PC) pathways. Prior work has theorized that the PC pa
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September 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Anterior insular activity signals perceptual conflicts induced by temporal and spatial context
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Anterior insular activity signals perceptual conflicts induced by temporal and spatial context
Abstract. The signals registered by our senses are inherently ambiguous. Subjective experience, by contrast, is informative: it portrays one’s interpretati
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September 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Priority access to awareness? A new ‘CFS tracking’ paradigm reveals no priority for fearful faces or a face inversion effect
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Priority access to awareness? A new ‘CFS tracking’ paradigm reveals no priority for fearful faces or a face inversion effect
Abstract. When the eyes view separate and incompatible images, the brain suppresses one image—removing it from visual awareness. A popular paradigm for doi
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September 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Longitudinal characterization of electroencephalography features in consciousness recovery following severe traumatic brain injury: a case series study in male patients
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September 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering?

We explore this possibility in a new review:
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With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt!

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Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing
Abstract. Fluctuations in the presence, experiential quality and contents of consciousness occur naturally during sleep and wakefulness and are core featur
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September 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing
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Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing
Abstract. Fluctuations in the presence, experiential quality and contents of consciousness occur naturally during sleep and wakefulness and are core featur
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September 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🗞️ First article as #lastauthor published in Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social 🥳 🥳 🥳

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🔍 In this study, we examine how #consciousness disruption translates into clinical manifestations in different #psychiatric disorders. 🧶⤵️
Disruption of consciousness depends on insight in obsessive-compulsive disorder and on positive symptoms in schizophrenia
Abstract. Disruption of conscious access contributes to the advent of psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia and could also explain lack of insight in other p
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September 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Decrease and recovery of integrated information Φ during anesthesia and sleep on human functional magnetic resonance imaging
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Decrease and recovery of integrated information Φ during anesthesia and sleep on human functional magnetic resonance imaging
Abstract. Integrated information theory (IIT) offers an axiomatic framework based on phenomenological properties, allowing the quantification and character
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September 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Stimuli presented on the fringe of awareness do not cause proactive interference
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Stimuli presented on the fringe of awareness do not cause proactive interference
Abstract. A key question in consciousness studies is what is distinct about a conscious as opposed to a sub-conscious percept. The experiments presented he
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August 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Disruption of consciousness depends on insight in obsessive-compulsive disorder and on positive symptoms in schizophrenia
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Disruption of consciousness depends on insight in obsessive-compulsive disorder and on positive symptoms in schizophrenia
Abstract. Disruption of conscious access contributes to the advent of psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia and could also explain lack of insight in other p
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August 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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And then there was light in the ganzfeld:
Clarifying the methods, experiences, and modulating factors of hallucinations and decays
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And then there was light in the ganzfeld: clarifying the methods, experiences, and modulating factors of hallucinations and decays
Abstract. A Ganzfeld is a homogeneous, unstructured visual field that is known to induce visual hallucinations. Aside from visual percepts emerging in part
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August 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Early ERPs dissociate subjectively nonconscious low- and high-level face processing
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Early ERPs dissociate subjectively nonconscious low- and high-level face processing
Abstract. There is an ongoing debate about the extent to which faces are processed if they are not consciously perceived. In the present study, we used eve
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August 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Confidence in auditory perceptual completion
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From Cemre Baykan, Pascal Mamassian & Alexander C Schütz

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Confidence in auditory perceptual completion
Abstract. Previous studies examining confidence in perceptual completion in vision showed that observers can be unaware of missing sensory information and
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August 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Vivid imagery of objects primes perception of subliminal spatial information

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Vivid imagery of objects primes perception of subliminal spatial information
Abstract. The integration of imagination with perception of reality is associated with numerous neurocognitive and biological adaptive functions. Given the
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August 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I'm back from the dead to announce a paper that was published a couple of days ago and that I worked on. We're all very proud of this one. We elaborate on Varela’s neurophenomenology, proposing Bayesian mechanics as a generative passage between phenomenology and neurobiology.
August 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Wonderful to see our paper on stroboscopically-induced hallucinations out now in @nconsc.bsky.social - led by Trevor Hewitt & David Schwartzman w/ Romy Beaute (Sussex), and the first installation of a new collaboration with Timo Schmidt's group (w/ Ionna Amaya) 🧠💡
August 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Stroboscopically induced visual hallucinations: historical, phenomenological, and neurobiological perspectives

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Stroboscopically induced visual hallucinations: historical, phenomenological, and neurobiological perspectives
Abstract. Exposure to rapid and bright stroboscopic light has long been reported to induce vivid visual hallucinations of colour and geometric formations.
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August 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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A multi-measurement study of the relation between deliberation and volition

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A multi-measurement study of the relation between deliberation and volition
Abstract. Historically, voluntary action and volition more generally have been investigated through the lens of meaningless decisions. Importantly, these f
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August 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM