Revisiting Animal Consciousness
The New York Declaration (released April 19, 2024) Last month, a prominent group of 39 cross-disciplinary scientists released The New York Declaration of Animal Consciousness, acknowledging (1) the “strong scientific support” of conscious experience in birds and mammals; (2) “the realistic possibility of conscious experience” in all vertebrates (including reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) and many invertebrates […]
Frontiers Research Collection: Possible Applications of Neuroaesthetics To Normal and Pathological Behaviour
Dr. Felix Schoeller is now a Topic Editor for the Frontiers Research Collection under the topic: Possible Applications of Neuroaesthetics To Normal and Pathological Behaviour See The Research Collection Research Collection Possible Applications of Neuroaesthetics To Normal and Pathological Behaviour Research Collection Frontiers Research Collection: Possible Applications of Neuroaesthetics To Normal and Pathological Behaviour The […]
Cognitive Science Below the Neck: Toward an Integrative Account of Consciousness in the Body
Get The Article PDF Paywalled Article Cognitive Science Below the Neck: Toward an Integrative Account of Consciousness in the Body PDF Cognitive Science Below the Neck: Toward an Integrative Account of Consciousness in the Body Article Cite This Work APA MLA Chicago Harvard Vancouver Christov‐Moore, L., Jinich‐Diamant, A., Safron, A., Lynch, C., & Reggente, N. […]
Why Do We Experience Chills?
Get The Article Article Psychogenic Shivers: why we get the chills when we aren’t cold Article Cite This Work APA MLA Chicago Harvard Vancouver Schoeller, F. (2021, April 8). Psychogenic shivers: Why we get the chills when we aren’t cold: Aeon ideas. Psychogenic shivers: why we get the chills when we aren’t cold. Retrieved from https://aeon.co/ideas/psychogenic-shivers-why-we-get-the-chills-when-we-arent-cold […]
IACS Research Featured in Vice
Exciting news! Our research has been featured in Vice magazine’s motherboard section. Hannah Docter-Loeb from Motherboard wrote a short piece about our research on chills stimuli with MIT Media Lab and the Gonda Brain Research Centre. Get The Article Article Here’s a Database of Media Scientifically Verified to Give You the Chills. Article Cite This Work APA MLA Chicago […]
Chills Foster Emotional Breakthrough In Depression
Get The Article Article PDF Aesthetic chills foster self-acceptance and emotional breakthrough in depression Open Source Article Aesthetic chills foster self-acceptance and emotional breakthrough in depression PDF Cite This Work APA MLA Chicago Vancouver Harvard Murray, C. H., Frohlich, J., Haggarty, C. J., Tare, I., Lee, R., & De Wit, H. (2024). Neural Complexity Is […]
The Consciousness Compass
The Consciousness Compass Edited by GPT 4. Illustrated by MidJourney. What does this mean? See Afterword below. What the hell is ‘a common denominator of consciousness’”? you ask me. We’re in a café in the city on a rainy day. You’ve just opened my new paper on your laptop, recently published in the peer-reviewed Nature Portfolio journal Biology […]
Visiting the “World Behind the World”
I’m a bit late to the party–it’s hard to shop for English language books here in Germany–but I finally read Erik Hoel’s 2023 book on the science of consciousness: The World Behind the World. Well, this world between the book covers is fantastic. I’m not here so much to review Hoel’s book–which anyone interested in the […]
Interoceptive Technologies for Psychiatric Interventions: A Comprehensive Review
Get The Article PDF Paywalled Chapter VR for Cognition and Memory Cite This Work APA AMA MLA Reggente N. (2023). VR for Cognition and Memory. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, 10.1007/7854_2023_425. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2023_425 Reggente N. VR for Cognition and Memory [published online ahead of print, 2023 Jul 14]. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2023;10.1007/7854_2023_425. doi:10.1007/7854_2023_425 Reggente, […]
Interview with Erik Hoel, neuroscientist and author
In my last post, I shared my reflections on Erik Hoel’s wonderful book on the science of consciousness, The World Behind the World. As a follow up, he was kind enough to answer my questions over email about both his book and his very exciting career. Erik was a professor at Tuft’s University until 2023, when he […]