Mapping complex mind states: EEG neural substrates of meditative unified compassionate awareness

Schoenberg, Poppy L. A.; Ruf, Andrea; Churchill, John; Brown, Daniel; Brewer, Judson A.

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2017.11.003

“…Increases in amplitude and synchrony in gamma range involving areas of parietal lobe have been found during nondual or non-referential meditations (Lutz et al, 2004;Schoenberg et al, 2018), while decreases in parietal gamma were found during mindfulness meditation (Berkovich-Ohana et al, 2014), in accord with the postulated difference between the neural mechanisms for nondual awareness and attention (Josipovic et al, 2012;Josipovic, 2014). In It is possible that when nondual awareness is isolated from all contents, the neural activity related to it is restricted to the precuneus and its neighboring areas.…”

Section: Theories and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nondual awareness: Consciousness-as-such as non-representational reflexivity

Josipovic

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2019

Progress in Brain Research

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I introduce arguments toward a non-representational reflexivity theory of consciousness-as-such to address one of the key issues in the science of consciousness today: lack of understanding of the nature of consciousness itself. An expanded map of consciousness is outlined, which includes, in addition to the well-known contents of awareness and levels of arousal, the indeterminate substrate and consciousness-as-such or nondual awareness. The central idea presented is that consciousness-as-such is a non-conceptual nondual awareness, whose essential property is non-representational reflexivity. This property makes consciousness-as-such phenomenologically, cognitively and neurobiologically a unique kind, different from and irreducible to any contents, functions and states, including the indeterminate substrate. Our previous hypothesis on the precuneus network for nondual awareness is further discussed in relation to non-representational reflexivity, and in the light of other hypotheses on the neural correlates of consciousness-as-such.

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“…The preliminary findings of this study are aligned with the extensive studies of GBA which showed the role of gamma-band in relation with self-awareness, self-reflecting process, and internal motivation (Bosman, CA. et.al, 2014;Yuval-Greenberg and Deouell, 2007;Schoenberg, et.al., 2018).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…These studies suggest that gamma power increases attention, sensory awareness, and self-reflection. Other studies have also shown that GBA may also reflects the formation of percept and associative learning (Miltner, et.al., 1999); the integration of multisensory object representations including the formation of higher-order conceptual perception (Yuval-Greenberg and Deouell, 2007); and the stage of stabilized awakening during meditation wherein the 'ordinary mind' shifts to the 'awakened mind' (Schoenberg, et.al., 2018). The EEG LORETA result of a recent study (Schoenberg, et.al., 2018) demonstrated that the awakening state involved high gamma-band current density within the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), precuneus, and superior parietal lobule.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Increase in Gamma Band qEEG Activity during Executive Coaching: Some Preliminary Observations and Possible Implications

Puspa

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Ibrahim²,

Brown

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2018

Proceedings of the International Conference of Mental Health, Neuroscience, and Cyber-Psychology - Icometh-NCP 2018

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Executive coaching has become a well many organizations. However, nothing is known about what effects coaching processes have on brain activity in understanding the neurobiological basis of behavioral changes. Using quantified electroencephalogram (qEEG) activity in the gamma pilot study is the first attempt to elucidate the electro during an executive coaching process whilst using a specific intervention called the CARE Model. Gamma consciousness, and cognitive functions. Synchronization of gamma proposed as being involved in the mechanisms of functional integration underlying changes in neural circuitry. Despite the decades of gamma that executive coaching might induce gamma explored. The subjects were six top talent volunteers (male, mean age = 30). The EEG was recorded from 19 electrodes of the International 10/20 System in both the resting state as the baseline and the continuous 45 absolute spectral power values of gamma epochs comparison of each CARE Model stage with the baseline was analyzed using Wilcoxon signed-rank test.Our preliminary qEEG observations show that gamma activity became significantly increased in the frontal and posterior regions of the subject during the coaching process. These preliminary results suggest that the neural impact of executive coaching within the CARE Model may be to evoke a self gestalt perception, and associative learning.

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“…Increases in amplitude and synchrony in gamma range involving areas of parietal lobe have been found during nondual or non-referential meditations (Lutz et al, 2004;Schoenberg et al, 2018), while decreases in parietal gamma were found during mindfulness meditation (Berkovich-Ohana et al, 2014), in accord with the postulated difference between the neural mechanisms for nondual awareness and attention (Josipovic et al, 2012;Josipovic, 2014). In light of these findings, increased amplitude of EEG signals in low gamma range in parietal and occipital channels found during deep sleep, in long-term meditation practitioners, could be interpreted as the background presence, however faint, of nondual awareness (Ferrareli et al, 2013).…”

Section: The Central Precuneus Network For Nondual Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such reentrant activation is most likely carried out in low gamma range 40-60 Hz (Llinas and Pare, 1991). Gamma amplitude signal changes detected during studies of nondual states among advanced mediators maybe indicative of such ongoing re-entrant excitation (Ferrareli 2013;Lutz 2004;Schoenberg et al, 2018). Details of how such controlled resonance might be achieved during nondual awareness are not yet known, in particular, what types of synapses are primarily involved, and what might be the relationship of local and global field potentials to spiking rates during this state (Buzsaki and Wang, 2012;Panagiataropoulos et al, 2014).…”

Section: Neural Mechanisms Of Non-representational Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Nondual Awareness: Consciousness-as-such as non-representational reflexivity

Josipovic¹

2018

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I introduce arguments toward a non-representational reflexivity theory of consciousness-as-such to address one of the key issues in the science of consciousness today: lack of understanding of the nature of consciousness itself. An expanded map of consciousness is outlined, which includes, in addition to the well-known contents of awareness and levels of arousal, the indeterminate substrate and consciousness-as-such or nondual awareness. The central idea presented is that consciousness-as-such is a non-conceptual nondual awareness, whose essential property is non-representational reflexivity. This property makes consciousness-as-such phenomenologically, cognitively and neurobiologically a unique kind, different from and irreducible to any contents, functions and states, including the indeterminate substrate. Our previous hypothesis on the precuneus network for nondual awareness is further discussed in relation to non-representational reflexivity, and in the light of other hypotheses on the neural correlates of consciousness-as-such.

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Mapping complex mind states: EEG neural substrates of meditative unified compassionate awareness

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Nondual awareness: Consciousness-as-such as non-representational reflexivity

Nondual awareness: Consciousness-as-such as non-representational reflexivity

Increase in Gamma Band qEEG Activity during Executive Coaching: Some Preliminary Observations and Possible Implications

Nondual Awareness: Consciousness-as-such as non-representational reflexivity

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