www.universite-lyon.fr/nos-domaines... A Chinese student holding a Master’s degree in cognitive neuroscience and a strong interest in meditation research is eligible to apply for this PhD scholarship at the University of Lyon before February 23, 2026. Details are provided below.

📜 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/...

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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...

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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...

🚨 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

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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

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

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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.

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...

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🚨 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....

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

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…

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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...

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...

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...

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...