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...

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.

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

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...