Identifying Gradations of The Meditative Experience

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May 2021

Received funding for project.

May 2022

Began running participants.

36

Expected total number of participants.

Study Status

  • Protocol Design

  • Data Collection

  • Data Analysis

  • Manuscript(s) Preparation

  • Publication

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Protocol 002

Identifying Gradations of The Meditation Experience

With funding from the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, The Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies will be conducting a series of basic research studies aimed at modeling the neurocognitive underpinnings supporting gradations in the meditative experience (i.e. different neural representations for deep vs. shallow periods of meditation). As a first step, we are conducting this pilot study to determine the feasibility of capturing these states as determined by a subject’s self-reported phenomenology.

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Outcomes

2024

2024

2023

2024

  • Reggente, N., Brandmeyer, T., Simonian, N., Kothe, C. (2024). Decoding Depth of Meditation: Neurophysiological Insights from Expert Vipassana Practitioners. To be presented at Organization for Human Brain Mapping, South Korea

2024

2024

  • Nath, M., & Reggente, N. (November 2024). Heartbeat evoked potentials increase with meditative depth: Implications for personalized, multimodal neurofeedback. Real-time Functional Imaging Neurofeedback (rtFIN). Heidelberg, Germany. [Poster]
  • Reggente, N., Kothe, C., Nath, M., Brandmeyer, T., Hanada, G., Simonian, N., Mullen, S., Mullen, T. (June 2024). Decoding Depth of Meditation: Neurophysiological Insights from Expert Vipassana Practitioners. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, South Korea. [Poster]
Contributors

Project Contributors

Avery Bedows

Research Consultant

Mihir Nath

Research Consultant

A.V. – Amir Vala Tavakoli

Junior Research Scientist

Tracy Brandmeyer, Ph.D.

Research Consultant

Pollyanna Esaghoolian

Research Assistant

Ninette Simonian

Lab Manager; Junior Research Scientist

Geena Wang

Research Assistant

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Nicco Reggente, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Caitlin Lynch

Junior Research Scientist

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