ReviewNeuroscience of consciousness2025
Meditation and complexity: a review and synthesis of evidence.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- The entropic brain today.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026Review
- Digital Asceticism and Transcendent Aging: Reframing late Life through Monastic Wisdom and Humanistic Psychology.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Neural dynamics of mindfulness training: A longitudinal EEG network analysis of focused attention and open monitoring meditation.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Illuminating consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Decoding the Self: Single-Trial Prediction of Self-Boundary Meditation States From Magnetoencephalography Recordings.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Using Electroencephalography to Advance Mindfulness Science: A Survey of Emerging Methods and Approaches.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Review
- Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Neurophysiological mechanisms of focused attention meditation: A scoping systematic review.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Without birth, without death-issues in the research of nondual awareness or consciousness itself.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Recent years have seen growing interest in the use of metrics inspired by complexity science for the study of consciousness. Work in this field has shown remarkable results in discerning conscious from unconscious states, and in characterizing states of altered conscious experience following psychedelic intake as involving enhanced complexity. Here, we study the relationship between complexity and a different kind of altered state of consciousness: meditation. We provide a scoping review of the growing literature studying the complexity of neural activity in meditation, disentangling different families of measures, short-term (state) from long-term (trait) effects, and meditation styles. Beyond families of measures used, our review uncovers a convergence toward identifying higher complexity during the meditative state when compared to waking rest or mind-wandering and decreased baseline complexity as a trait following regular meditation practice. In doing so, this review contributes to guide current debates and provides a framework for understanding the complexity of neural activity in meditation, while suggesting practical guidelines for future research.
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