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Assistant Professor (Posthumous) · Brown University
Neuroscientist who studied how mindfulness meditation modulates cortical alpha rhythms that regulate sensory information flow. Her work revealed how attention to body sensations during meditation trains brain gating mechanisms. Deceased 2016.
Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (HOT)
Rosenthal and Lau's framework proposing consciousness requires higher-order mental representations about our own mental states.
Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)
Penrose and Hameroff's quantum theory proposing consciousness arises from gravitational self-collapse in neuronal microtubules.
Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)
The search for the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept.
Attention Schema Theory (AST)
Michael Graziano's theory that consciousness is the brain's simplified model of its own attention process.
