Sociopathic Superintelligences, Artificial Empathy, and Robot Bodhisattvas, Oh My!
Get The Article PDF Paywalled Chapter Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy at Science Robotics Cite This Work APA MLA Chicago Harvard Vancouver Christov-Moore, L., Reggente, N., Vaccaro, A., Schoeller, F., Pluimer, B., Douglas, P. K., Iacoboni, M., Man, K., Damasio, A., & Kaplan, J. T. (2023). Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial […]
New research sheds fresh light on mystery of infant consciousness
Get The Article Article PDF Trends in Cognitive Science Article Consciousness in the cradle: on the emergence of infant experience Cite This Work APA MLA Bibtex Bayne, T., Frohlich, J., Cusack, R., Moser, J., & Naci, L. (2023). Consciousness in the cradle: on the emergence of infant experience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Bayne, Tim, et al. […]
How floating in darkness challenges our concept of the self
Excerpt adapted from Buddha in the Float Tank What is a float tank? What does it teach us about perception, selfhood, and out-of-body experiences? The tank is a lightproof, soundproof chamber filled with saline water. This solution, saturated with Epson salt, is so dense that one floats effortlessly, with no muscle tension. What’s more, the water […]
Interoceptive Technologies for Psychiatric Interventions: A Comprehensive Review
Get The Article Article PDF ScienceDirect Article Interoceptive Technologies for Psychiatric Interventions: A Comprehensive Review Cite This Work APA MLA Bibtex Schoeller, F., Horowitz, A. H., Jain, A., Maes, P., Reggente, N., Christov-Moore, L., . . . Friston, K. J. (2024). Interoceptive technologies for psychiatric interventions: From diagnosis to clinical applications. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 156, 105478. […]
Arousal Regulation by the External Globus Pallidus: A New Node for the Mesocircuit Hypothesis
Get The Article Article PDF Brain Sciences Article Arousal Regulation by the External Globus Pallidus: A New Node for the Mesocircuit Hypothesis Cite This Work APA MLA Bibtex Zheng, Z. S., Reggente, N., & Monti, M. M. (2023). Arousal regulation by the external globus pallidus: a new node for the mesocircuit hypothesis. Brain Sciences, 13(1), 146. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010146 […]
Aesthetic Chills and Self-Transcendence: Another step toward the democratization of mystical experience
Get The Article Article PDF Political Psychology Article Self-transcendence accompanies aesthetic chills Cite This Work APA MLA Bibtex Christov-Moore, L., Schoeller, F., Lynch, C., Sacchet, M., & Reggente, N. (2024). Self-transcendence accompanies aesthetic chills. PLOS Mental Health, 1(5), e0000125. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000125 Christov-Moore, Leonardo, et al. “Self-transcendence accompanies aesthetic chills.” PLOS Mental Health, vol. 1, no. 5, Oct. 2024, p. […]
Chills Improve Reward Learning in Anhedonic Depression
Get The Article Article PDF Political Psychology Article Aesthetic chills modulate reward learning in anhedonic depression Cite This Work APA MLA Bibtex Jain, A., Schoeller, F., Esfand, S., Duda, J., Null, K., Reggente, N., Pizzagalli, D. A., & Maes, P. (2024). Aesthetic chills modulate reward learning in Anhedonic depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 370, 9–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.038 Jain, […]
In Pursuit of a ‘Neuroprint’ for Neuroscience-Based Personalization
The Challenge of Individual Variation Just as fingerprints represent multivariate patterns with sufficient uniqueness and stability to serve as forensic evidence in criminal proceedings, our brains harbor distinctive topographies of response to the world around us. These neural landscapes, shaped by genetics, experience, and countless moments of conscious and unconscious processing, hold the key to […]
Can Aesthetic Chills Make Us More Generous? A Dictator Game Study
For one of our recent studies, we brought participants to the lab where they were presented with a series of auditory stimuli proven to cause chills in over 2/3 of the population while we recorded their neural and physiological data. Participants then completed tasks examining their post-intervention feelings, perspective-taking, and reactions to moral dilemmas, as well […]
Virtual Reality vs. Reflective Chamber: New Study Shows Both Can Help Reduce Anxiety
Get The Article Article PDF PLOS Mental Health Article Contrasting cognitive, behavioral, and physiological responses to breathwork vs. naturalistic stimuli in reflective chamber and VR headset environments Cite This Work APA MLA Bibtex Simonian, N., Johnson, M. A., Lynch, C., Wang, G., Kumaravel, V., Kuhn, T., Schoeller, F., & Reggente, N. (2025). Contrasting cognitive, behavioral, […]