Now on Antoine Lutz on the phenomenology of meditation and its neural correlates in the concurrent sessions
08.07.2025 12:17 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@shawnprest.bsky.social
Researcher at the intersection of meditation, consciousness, perception and active inference at the Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies (Monash University). Web: shawnprest.owlstown.net
Now on Antoine Lutz on the phenomenology of meditation and its neural correlates in the concurrent sessions
08.07.2025 12:17 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@theassc.bsky.social
08.07.2025 05:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'll be presenting work today on a poster at @assc28.bsky.social on how deep meditative experience challenges challeges predominant computational views of affective valence. At 12:30pm, come by, booth 179! #assc28
08.07.2025 05:31 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Heading to my very first ASSC! Quite excited to present my work, supervised by @dsotob.bsky.social on unconscious working memory in the concurrent session at Studio Theatre on Wednesday at 15:30! Please come drop by! : ) @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28
04.07.2025 10:59 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Enjoying the atmosphere at @assc28.bsky.social here in Crete! It's great to be around a lot of researches focused on our actual experience. Also looking forward to Edmundo Lopez-Sola's poster coming up and @matthewsacchet.bsky.social 's talk this afternoon on advanced meditation. :) #assc28
07.07.2025 08:04 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 05 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little ๐งต of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...
20.05.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 85 ๐ 38 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 4FYI: 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...
New study being run by @julietagalante.bsky.social looking for (teacher) participants
12.04.2025 01:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The FEEL lab is doing some of the most fascinating, groundbreaking research on emotions and emotion regulation. Do NOT miss this opportunity!! #psychjobs #AffectSci
09.04.2025 01:41 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hello Bluesky!
Our students are running a short survey on interoception, ADHD, and autism. If youโve got a few minutes, theyโd be so grateful if you could take part โ and help spread the word!
๐ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#psychscisky
Save the Date #ACNS2025
01.04.2025 22:16 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The ASSC is now on bluesky! Please follow us for more information about consciousness neuroscience, and our upcoming conference ASSC 25 assc2025.gr
13.03.2025 09:21 โ ๐ 25 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1We are seeking participants for a free online mindfulness study together with colleagues from @monash-m3cs.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
See details below, and follow this link for more information lnkd.in/gwCrne7v
#research #mindfulness #meditation #psychology
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!
25.02.2025 09:51 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 06/ A lot of gratitude and thanks to @hohwy.bsky.social , @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Bjรถrn Weghenkel and various others for all of the very helpful feedback on drafts of this work.
26.02.2025 05:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 05/ ๐ Link to preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
26.02.2025 05:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 04/ Takes a step toward the quantification of advanced meditative experience, paving the way for quantitative answers to questions like, how equanimous was experience during a given window of time?
26.02.2025 05:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 03/ Results show how deconstruction:
โช๏ธ Increases short temporal scale perception
โช๏ธ Reduces conceptual complexity
โช๏ธ Increases equanimity (non-reactivity) and stillness
โช๏ธ Aids the self-regulation of affective valence
2/ The model casts the release of contraction (arising from clinging) as reducing belief precision in a hierarchical generative model, driving increased lower-level inference.
26.02.2025 05:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 01/ We know meditation attenuates the conceptual mind, increases equanimity (non-reactivity), and moves experience into the present moment. But what are the computational mechanisms behind this?
26.02.2025 05:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! ๐ง
Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.
I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.๐งต
Do it
25.02.2025 02:12 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
24.02.2025 18:13 โ ๐ 185 ๐ 51 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 11๐ฃ Free online event: Join @pliknaitzky.bsky.social (Monash Clinical Psychedelic Lab), as he discusses the role of psychedelics in therapy & their potential for transforming treatment at our seminar:
๐๏ธ Thursday, 6 March 2025
โฐ 12:00 โ 12:50 PM AEDT
๐ป Zoom
๐ Register via the link in the comments ๐
Lars Sandved-Smith giving a presentation
Shawn Prest giving a presentation
Beth Fisher giving a presentation
A fabulous day of M3CS PhD presentations - Lars Sandved-Smith on pure awareness, @shawnprest.bsky.social on defabrication in meditation, @bethfisher.bsky.social Fisher on optimism and gratitude. All done brilliantly with active inference and FEP modelling.
#neuroskyence #philsky
Just realised Bluesky supports videos so here is our new visual illusion!
Fix your gaze on the grey dot. How many red dots do you see within the green frames? Many people consistently see two, despite only ever being shown one!
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... w/ @renrutmailliw.bsky.social
Initialized a starter pack for Active Inference!
Just hit me up if you want to be added or removed.
go.bsky.app/CuYTnqV
would love to be added!
10.01.2025 13:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Excited to see work on the Stages of Insight out by Yang, Chowhury, Sparby & @matthewsacchet.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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