Neuroscience of Consciousness最新文献

Awareness of being: a computational neurophenomenological model of mindfulness, mind-wandering, and meta-attentional control. 存在的意识：正念、走神和元注意力控制的计算神经现象学模型。

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Neuroscience of Consciousness Pub Date : 2026-09-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niag046

Hayato Idei, Keisuke Suzuki, Yuichi Yamashita

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Memory color influences conscious object perception. 记忆颜色影响有意识的物体知觉。

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Neuroscience of Consciousness Pub Date : 2026-09-02 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niag055

Vincent Plikat, Pablo R Grassi, Michael M Bannert, Andreas Bartels

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Who's in charge? Linguistic exploration of social media posts reveals reduced sense of agency in dissociation. 谁负责？对社交媒体帖子的语言探索揭示了分离中的代理感减少。

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Neuroscience of Consciousness Pub Date : 2026-09-02 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niag056

Yarin Szachter, Almog Simchon, Danny Kalev, Nirit Soffer-Dudek

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From the attenuation of self-boundaries to inner peace: how nonordinary states of consciousness modulates self-experience and subjective well-being. 从自我界限的衰减到内心的平静：不寻常的意识状态如何调节自我体验和主观幸福感。

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Neuroscience of Consciousness Pub Date : 2026-08-27 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niag022

Pierre De Oliveira, Hélène Meunier, Audrey Breton, Michael Dambrun

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Aquahenosis: a non-pharmacological altered state of consciousness induced by floatation-REST in individuals with anxiety and depression. Aquahenosis：一种由漂浮- rest引起的焦虑和抑郁个体的非药物性意识改变状态。

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Neuroscience of Consciousness Pub Date : 2026-08-26 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niag044

Theo Tobel, Aidan Cone, Emily Choquette, McKenna Garland, Micah A Johnson, Keller Mink, Caitlin Lynch, Joel Frohlich, Justin S Feinstein, Nicco Reggente, Sahib Khalsa

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Magnetoencephalography monitoring of hypnosis-induced modulation of event-related brain responses by hypnosis. 脑磁图监测催眠诱导的事件相关脑反应调节。

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Neuroscience of Consciousness Pub Date : 2026-08-26 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niag051

Hafid Sid-Ahmed, Julie Alayrangues, Lilia Langar, Nelly Richard, Véronique Albaladejo, Stéphane Pezzani, Virginie Brun, Daniel Anglade, Vincent Auboiroux

{"title":"Magnetoencephalography monitoring of hypnosis-induced modulation of event-related brain responses by hypnosis.","authors":"Hafid Sid-Ahmed, Julie Alayrangues, Lilia Langar, Nelly Richard, Véronique Albaladejo, Stéphane Pezzani, Virginie Brun, Daniel Anglade, Vincent Auboiroux","doi":"10.1093/nc/niag051","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nc/niag051","url":null,"abstract":"Hypnosis is increasingly used in a medical context. However, the hypnotic process is dynamic, and we currently lack specific and reliable biomarkers to diagnose and rigorously monitor the patient's response to hypnotic suggestions. Here, we aimed to identify physiological biomarkers by investigating cerebral event-related responses in an oddball paradigm using a magnetoencephalography-based method. Twenty volunteers with different suggestibility levels were exposed to standard and deviant sounds as part of an oddball paradigm. Subjects were monitored in three distinct conditions: critical consciousness, while distracted by listening to a story, and during hypnotic trance. In each condition, event-related responses were analyzed in both a source space (auditory cortex and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex) and a sensor space in a minimalistic scenario (two sensors). The statistical analysis revealed significant reductions in amplitudes in the auditory cortex and in sensor measurements during hypnotic trance and distraction relative to critical consciousness. These reductions in amplitudes were observed for both standard and deviant stimuli, regardless of the level of hypnotic suggestibility. In particular, this study aimed to determine whether auditory responses are reduced even without explicit suggestions of induced deafness. A more subtle, but nevertheless statistically significant, difference was also found between the distraction and the hypnotic conditions in the source space. The modulation of the cortical response to auditory stimuli during hypnosis could be used as a physiological marker of the hypnotic process. Hypnotic trance and distraction do not appear to differ significantly, as both seem to induce a similar alteration of critical consciousness.","PeriodicalId":52242,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience of Consciousness","volume":"2026 1","pages":"niag051"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13513767/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148834565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towards an active inference account of deep meditative deconstruction. 对深度冥想解构的积极推理。

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Neuroscience of Consciousness Pub Date : 2026-08-24 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niag053

Shawn Prest, Kevin Berryman

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Correction: Affirmed gender shapes virtual embodiment: a phenomenological account of ownership and agency across gender identities. 更正：肯定的性别塑造了虚拟的化身：跨性别身份的所有权和代理的现象学解释。

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Neuroscience of Consciousness Pub Date : 2026-08-24 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niag057

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Low-dose lysergic acid diethylamide alters subjective visual perception but not visual contrast surround suppression. 低剂量麦角酸二乙胺改变主观视觉感受，但不影响视觉对比抑制。

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Neuroscience of Consciousness Pub Date : 2026-08-20 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niag050

Lucca F Jaeckel, Deborah Logvinski, Mika Kanana, Felix Müller, Nicolai Rohner, Anna M Becker, Matthias E Liechti, Philipp Sterzer

{"title":"Low-dose lysergic acid diethylamide alters subjective visual perception but not visual contrast surround suppression.","authors":"Lucca F Jaeckel, Deborah Logvinski, Mika Kanana, Felix Müller, Nicolai Rohner, Anna M Becker, Matthias E Liechti, Philipp Sterzer","doi":"10.1093/nc/niag050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niag050","url":null,"abstract":"Theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest that psychedelics alter contextual influences on perception. To test this, we examined contrast surround suppression, a visual illusion in which a grating appears lower in contrast when embedded in a high-contrast surround. While psilocybin has been reported to enhance this and related illusions at moderate-to-high doses, it is unknown whether low-dose Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) produces similar effects. In a randomized, double-blind, within-subjects crossover study, N = 30 healthy participants received placebo, 10, and 20 μg of LSD (base-equivalent). In each session, participants performed a contrast discrimination task and rated subjective drug effects. LSD did not measurably influence contrast surround suppression. However, participants reported subjective visual changes, including blurrier, more saturated, and more dynamical visual perception. These subjective alterations did not correlate with individual differences in contrast-surround suppression. Our findings indicate a dissociation between subjective experience and early visual contextual processing, suggesting that subjective visual effects of low-dose LSD may arise through mechanisms distinct from those mediating contrast surround suppression. Future research should test whether higher doses of LSD affect contrast surround suppression.","PeriodicalId":52242,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience of Consciousness","volume":"2026 1","pages":"niag050"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13492661/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148801270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evidence for unconscious priming using a Bayesian single-subject approach. 使用贝叶斯单主体方法的无意识启动证据。

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Neuroscience of Consciousness Pub Date : 2026-08-20 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niag052

Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida, Simon van Gaal, Zazie van den Hurk, Timo Stein, Johannes J Fahrenfort

{"title":"Evidence for unconscious priming using a Bayesian single-subject approach.","authors":"Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida, Simon van Gaal, Zazie van den Hurk, Timo Stein, Johannes J Fahrenfort","doi":"10.1093/nc/niag052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niag052","url":null,"abstract":"Many studies have claimed the existence of unconscious priming, but a valid statistical procedure for substantiating such claims is often lacking. Absence of prime awareness is often inferred from non-significant p-values, and priming and awareness are typically tested by comparing two separate tests. In a classic study by Vorberg, D., Mattler, U., Heinecke, A., Schmidt, T., & Schwarzbach, J. (Different time courses for visual perception and action priming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2003, 100(10), 6275-6280.), observers were slower to identify the direction of an arrow mask when it followed an arrow prime pointing in the opposite direction, despite being unable to identify the prime direction. Using this study as a starting point, we addressed several methodological shortcomings that are common in the field. First, we used a Bayesian methodological-statistical framework to test priming effects and prime awareness at the single-subject level across multiple sessions. Second, participants received extensive training in the prime awareness task to ensure they understood and executed the task as intended. Third, we directly compared prime awareness and priming. Using this approach, we found an indirect-task advantage consistent with unconscious priming at short prime-mask stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) in three out of six participants, under the assumption that the awareness task was at least as sensitive as the priming task. However, unlike in the original study by Vorberg and colleagues, evidence for unconscious priming was not consistently present across all SOAs, and awareness increased with SOA. Priming effects were highly consistent across participants, whereas awareness showed substantial inter-individual variability.","PeriodicalId":52242,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience of Consciousness","volume":"2026 1","pages":"niag052"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13492662/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148801283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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