Antoine Lutz
antoinelutz.bsky.social
Antoine Lutz
@antoinelutz.bsky.social
I am currently an INSERM Director of Research at Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Inserm U1028 and the co-leader of the Experiential Neuroscience and Mental Training team (Eduwell)
Reposted by Antoine Lutz
📜 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
@esrs.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Compared to controls, elderly expert meditators exhibited (1) more preserved resting-state brain activity, (2) less altered sleep architecture, and (3) EEG features indicative of heightened cognitive...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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...
August 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Reposted by Antoine Lutz
🚨 New article in #NCONSC!

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

academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

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

@antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
Abstract. The context for our paper comes from the neurophenomenology (NPh) research programme initiated by Francisco Varela at the end of the 1990s. Varel
academic.oup.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Reposted by Antoine Lutz
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
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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.
academic.oup.com/nc/article-a...
Training the embodied self in its impermanence: meditators evidence neurophysiological markers of death acceptance
AbstractBackground. Human predictive capacity underlies its adaptive strength but also the potential for existential terror. Grounded in the predictive pro
academic.oup.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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!
February 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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...
January 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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.
January 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by Antoine Lutz
BREAKING NEWS:
Lars Sandved-Smith wins The 2024 Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize, with this contribution:

preprints.org/manuscript/2...

mpe-project.info/wp-content/u...
Altmetrics
preprints.org
November 13, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Reposted by Antoine Lutz
🚨 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 !
bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
November 17, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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
October 8, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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
Exploring the Embodied Mind: Functional Connectome Fingerprinting of Meditation Expertise
Short mindfulness-based interventions have gained traction in research due to their positive impact on well-being, cognition, and clinical symptoms ac…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 10, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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...
May 7, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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
 
 osf.io/preprints/os...
March 1, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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...
February 27, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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...
December 7, 2023 at 6:39 AM