2 papers
q-bio.NC2026
Awakening as a Trait-Level Transformation of Consciousness
Riku Ihalainen, Victor Oswald, Gulshan Kumar +4
Awakening is reported across contemplative traditions yet remains poorly defined in science, where it is often conflated with transient states induced by meditation or psychedelics…
q-bio.NC2026
Two dissociable axes of brain hierarchical dynamics track universal and population-specific effects of mindfulness
Victor Oswald, David Zarka, Riku Johannes Ihalainen +11
How mental training reshapes the temporal architecture of large-scale brain dynamics and how these mechanisms differ between healthy and clinically vulnerable populations remains p…