ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Reflections on Inner and Outer Silence and Consciousness Without Contents According to the Sphere Model of Consciousness.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effect of one-session focused attention meditation on the working memory capacity of meditation novices: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.Brain and behavior · 2021Trial
- Neuroecology and educational equity: neural regulation, interpersonal synchronization, and social development.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Remodeling the Epigenome Through Meditation: Effects on Brain, Body, and Well-being.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2025Review
- Holistic Functioning from a Developmental Perspective: A New Synthesis with a Focus on a Multi-tiered System Support Structure.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Article
- A Three-Fold Integrated Perspective on Healthy Development: An Opinion Paper.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Change in Time Perception Following the Place of Pre-Existence Technique.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- A Scoping Review on Movement, Neurobiology and Functional Deficits in Dyslexia: Suggestions for a Three-Fold Integrated Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Quadrato Motor Training (QMT) is associated with DNA methylation changes at DNA repeats: A pilot study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Cologne questionnaire on speechlessness: Development and validation.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Metacognition as a Consequence of Competing Evolutionary Time Scales.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Tackling the Electro-Topography of the Selves Through the Sphere Model of Consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- An updated classification of meditation methods using principles of taxonomy and systematics.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Consciousness Beyond Neural Fields: Expanding the Possibilities of What Has Not Yet Happened.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Immersion, Absorption, and Spiritual Experience: Some Preliminary Findings.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Correlates of Silence: Enhanced Microstructural Changes in the Uncinate Fasciculus.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Dynamics of the Sphere Model of Consciousness: Silence, Space, and Self.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Consciousness Without Content: A Look at Evidence and Prospects.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
In the current hypothesis paper, we propose that focusing attention on silence can be used as a paradigm conceptually similar to sensory deprivation, to study consciousness without content. We briefly overview recent influential models of consciousness and consider how they assess the relationship between consciousness and contents. After discussing the strengths and weaknesses of current models, we suggest an extension based on the Sphere Model of Consciousness (SMC) and introduce new definitions for identification and self-awareness as states of consciousness. We further compare Paoletti's theoretical model for the development of self with other influential models, highlighting similarities and differences. We conclude with a discussion of how attentional focus on silence can be empirically tested.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.