- Woodstock, New York, United States
Zoran Josipovic
New York University, Psychology, Adjunct
- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness, and 17 moreNeuronal activity in Meditation, Mindfulness Meditation, Yoga, Cognitive Neuroscience, Mindfulness, Meditation, Functional Connectivity, Mind Wandering, Brain Networks, Default Mode, Theoretical Physics, Neuropsychology, Brain Based Learning, Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychiatry, and Personality Psychologyedit
- Zoran Josipovic, PhD, is research associate and adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychology, New York University,... moreZoran Josipovic, PhD, is research associate and adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychology, New York University, and the principal science investigator at Nonduality Institute, Woodstock, NY. His research interest are states of consciousness cultivated through contemplative practice, what these states can tell us about the nature of consciousness and its relation to authentic subjectivity, and what relevance this may have for understanding the global and local organization in the brain.edit
Research Interests: Psychology, Love, Compassion, Medicine, Multidisciplinary, and 6 moreEmpathy, Meditation, Brain, Humans, Awareness, and Psychotherapist
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Rafael Malach is currently a professor in the department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. His current research is aimed at understanding how the neuronal circuitry in the human brain translates a stream of sensory... more
Rafael Malach is currently a professor in the department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. His current research is aimed at understanding how the neuronal circuitry in the human brain translates a stream of sensory stimuli into meaningful perception. Rafael Malach received his PhD in physiological optics from UC Berkeley and did his post-doctorate research at MIT. Originally doing research on the organization of neuronal connections in the primate brain, his focus has recently shifted to the study of the human cerebral cortex using fMRI. Professor Malach has begun this research at Massachusetts General Hospital, exploring a new object-related region called the lateral occipital complex. Since then he expanded this research, studying the human visual cortex using a variety of methods, including adaptation paradigms, backward masking, and more recently naturalistic stimuli — all aimed at deciphering the intriguing link between perceptual experience and brain activity.
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Research Interests: Buddhism, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Perception, and 15 moreCognition, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Attention, Consciousness, Cognitive Neuroscience, Medicine, Multidisciplinary, Intention, Neural correlates of consciousness, Meditation, Brain, Humans, Neurons, Awareness, and Conceptualization
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Research Interests: Psychology, Love, Compassion, Medicine, Multidisciplinary, and 5 moreEmpathy, Meditation, Brain, Humans, and Awareness
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Abstract: The great variety of meditation techniques found in different contemplative traditions presents a challenge when attempting to create taxonomies based on the constructs of contemporary cognitive sciences. In the current issue of... more
Abstract: The great variety of meditation techniques found in different contemplative traditions presents a challenge when attempting to create taxonomies based on the constructs of contemporary cognitive sciences. In the current issue of Consciousness and ...
Research Interests: Buddhism, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Perception, and 15 moreCognition, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Attention, Consciousness, Cognitive Neuroscience, Medicine, Multidisciplinary, Intention, Neural correlates of consciousness, Meditation, Brain, Humans, Neurons, Awareness, and Conceptualization
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“Thinking or not thinking, both always
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Rafael Malach is currently a professor in the department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. His current research is aimed at understanding how the neuronal circuitry in the human brain translates a stream of sensory... more
Rafael Malach is currently a professor in the department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. His current research is aimed at understanding how the neuronal circuitry in the human brain translates a stream of sensory stimuli into meaningful perception. Rafael Malach received his PhD in physiological optics from UC Berkeley and did his post-doctorate research at MIT. Originally doing research on the organization of neuronal connections in the primate brain, his focus has recently shifted to the study of the human cerebral cortex using fMRI. Professor Malach has begun this research at Massachusetts General Hospital, exploring a new object-related region called the lateral occipital complex. Since then he expanded this research, studying the human visual cortex using a variety of methods, including adaptation paradigms, backward masking, and more recently naturalistic stimuli — all aimed at deciphering the intriguing link between perceptual experience and brain activity.
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The great variety of meditation techniques found in different contemplative traditions presents a challenge when attempting to create taxonomies based on the constructs of contemporary cognitive sciences. In the current issue of... more
The great variety of meditation techniques found in different contemplative traditions presents a challenge when attempting to create taxonomies based on the constructs of contemporary cognitive sciences. In the current issue of Consciousness and Cognition, Travis and Shear add ‘automatic self-transcending’ to the previously proposed categories of ‘focused attention’ and ‘open monitoring’, and suggest characteristic EEG bands as the defining criteria for each of the three categories. Accuracy of current taxonomies and potential limitations of EEG measurements as classifying criteria are discussed. Cognitive and affective neuroscience studies of meditation have a potential to make important contributions to the understanding of the brain’s functioning and neural plasticity (Lutz et al., 2008; Lazar et al., 2005). Furthermore, extensive firstperson reports of changes brought on by these practices, may, once verified, enhance our views of the nature and functions of consciousness. The ...
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Integrative Health aims to treat the whole person and to do so within the context of whole systems and practices. We raise questions as to what constitutes the whole person and what must be taken into account to support the creation of... more
Integrative Health aims to treat the whole person and to do so within the context of whole systems and practices. We raise questions as to what constitutes the whole person and what must be taken into account to support the creation of optimal well-being. We propose that in order to fully account for the whole person, the transcendent aspects of human awareness, the development of which is the goal of many meditative traditions, must be taken into account. “Nondual awareness” is a term increasingly used in the literature to describe a state of awareness that is characterized by the experience of nonseparation, compassion, and love. Well-being in this state does not depend on anything being experienced per se, but it is rather an innate attribute of living in nonduality. For these reasons, nondual awareness can be considered foundational to the realization of the whole person and achieving the state of optimal well-being.
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Many individuals with alcohol-use disorders who had experienced alcohol craving before joining Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) report little or no craving after becoming long-term members. Their use of AA prayers may contribute to this. Neural... more
Many individuals with alcohol-use disorders who had experienced alcohol craving before joining Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) report little or no craving after becoming long-term members. Their use of AA prayers may contribute to this. Neural mechanisms underlying this process have not been delineated. To define experiential and neural correlates of diminished alcohol craving following AA prayers among members with long-term abstinence. Twenty AA members with long-term abstinence participated. Self-report measures and functional magnetic resonance imaging of differential neural response to alcohol-craving-inducing images were obtained in three conditions: after reading of AA prayers, after reading irrelevant news, and with passive viewing. Random-effects robust regressions were computed for the main effect (prayer > passive + news) and for estimating the correlations between the main effect and the self-report measures. Compared to the other two conditions, the prayer condition was ch...