1/8 Finally published at @NatureComms, "Distributed representations of prediction error signals across the cortical hierarchy are synergistic". Very grateful to all the friends and colleagues around the globe who made this possible. https://t.co/KmfYZvNDIf

Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @BrainSelf at @karolinskainst and out in PNAS @PNASNews :

The special issue celebrating John Duncan's retirement is now out! Check out all the gem articles here: https://t.co/K8MilBFAQP and the editorial (see next figure in the thread for an entertaining analysis) https://t.co/es6CowpSG4

@mlueckel @mrccbu We finish #CBUMethodsDay with EEG, MEG and Physiology, including @canalesjohnson's talk "Time-frequency Co-Information (TFCoI): Unraveling synergistic and redundant cross-frequency interactions using ECoG data". @mrccbu

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Delighted to share our new Perspective article @NatRevNeurosci, led by the great Edoardo Chidichimo: "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi, Pedro Mediano, @introspection, @DrVLeong and Richard Bethlehem https://t.co/CwDgZYbYUf

Delighted to share our new Perspective article @NatRevNeurosci, led by the great Edoardo Chidichimo: "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi, Pedro Mediano, @introspection, @DrVLeong and Richard Bethlehem https://t.co/CwDgZYbYUf

This is absolutely fantastic.

The mind-bending power of placebo Studies with open-label placebos — sugar pills given without deception — suggest that the placebo effect is more psychologically complex than previously thought. https://t.co/SmTrAxyzij

I modified 3 Chinese Xiao flutes, & my Xiao flute head to play Hans Zimmer’s amazing piece for the 10th anniversary of Honor of Kings. I thank TiMi Studio Group & Tencent for inviting me. @honorofkings @timistudiogroup_official @lvlinfinite . @hanszimmer @greenawaymusic

This is my 1st video of my "Studio Live Sessions Series” My “Flute Guy” "Black Myth: Wukong” version is dedicated to the gamers of the world, & my dear fans in China. More new music & solo concerts coming soon God bless you "Black Myth: Wukong”, theme Composed by Zhai Jinyan

Together, these results suggest that pure awareness is a distinct neurophenomenological state and demonstrate the unique value of combining large and rigorously matched cohorts with time-resolved phenomenology and systematic neural screening.

Finally, TM showed little evidence of carry-over effects from meditation into subsequent rest, in contrast to controls, where counting induced residual changes

This dissociation suggests that PA is characterized by enhanced diversity of EEG signals and aperiodic neural dynamics compared to ordinary cognition but stabilized by slow-frequency oscillatory synchronization relative to rest.

In contrast, when TM was compared with its own baseline, low-frequency functional connectivity dominated, while temporal entropy contributed mini- mally to classification.

In relation to ordinary cognition in control subjects performing mental counting, pure awareness is best characterized by increased temporal entropy and scale-free neural dynamics.

Using EEG and multivariate classification analyses, our large-scale screening of theoretically motivated EEG markers revealed a double dissociation in neural signatures.

Using a well-powered study (33 meditators and matched controls), meditators demonstrated greater intensity and variability of pure awareness compared to controls, independent of practice duration, consistent with the notion of automaticity in achieving pure awareness during TM.

Transcendental Meditation (TM) offers an excellent empirical model of pure awareness, characterized by its standardized, effortless, and reproducible induction of awareness with minimal content.

'Pure awareness' designates a mode of experience in which self-identification with the body or ego is dissolved, temporal orientation is suspended, and spatial reference frames are absent, while a distinctive quality of wakeful, alert presence is nonetheless preserved.

Thrilled to share our new study: “Distilling the neurophenomenological signatures of pure awareness during Transcendental Meditation”, combining subjective reports with large-scale screening of neural features to investigate pure awareness. Thread below! https://t.co/DGFuhBYWqx