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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Qualia structures collapse for geometric shapes, but not faces, when spatial attention is withdrawn Abstract.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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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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Meta-representations as representations of processes
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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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Investigating electrophysiological correlates of nonconscious processing of facial expressions using dichoptic forward masking
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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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GNW theoretical framework and the “adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness”
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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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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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Daily dynamics of the temporal orientations of mind wandering: chronotype matters!
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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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The multiple generator hypothesis 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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Computational modelling shows evidence in support of both sensory and frontal theories of consciousness
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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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Metacognition in putative magno- and parvocellular vision
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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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Anterior insular activity signals perceptual conflicts induced by temporal and spatial context
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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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Priority access to awareness? A new ‘CFS tracking’ paradigm reveals no priority for fearful faces or a face inversion effect
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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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The paper is not an empirical study but a theoretical article arguing that we should investigate the possibility that mind wandering persists in disorders of consciousness.

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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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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Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing
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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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🔍 In this study, we examine how #consciousness disruption translates into clinical manifestations in different #psychiatric disorders. 🧶⤵️

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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Decrease and recovery of integrated information Φ during anesthesia and sleep on human functional magnetic resonance imaging
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