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ArticleNeuroscience of consciousness2025

And then there was light in the ganzfeld: clarifying the methods, experiences, and modulating factors of hallucinations and decays.

Eleftheria Pistolas, Johan Wagemans

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Article in Neuroscience of consciousness, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. "Scientist as a Discoverer and Explorer of Unknown Lands": Quo Vadis?Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Eleftheria PistolasLaboratory of Experimental Psychology, Department of Brain and Cognition, University of Leuven (KU  Leuven), Tiensestraat 102 - Box 3711, Leuven 3000, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-8386
Johan WagemansLaboratory of Experimental Psychology, Department of Brain and Cognition, University of Leuven (KU  Leuven), Tiensestraat 102 - Box 3711, Leuven 3000, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-1541

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A Ganzfeld is a homogeneous, unstructured visual field that is known to induce visual hallucinations. Aside from visual percepts emerging in participants' awareness, Ganzfeld viewing is characterized by decays of color and brightness. The studies dedicated to this topic from the 20

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accommodationadaptationganzfeldgestalt theoryhallucinationsvisual awarenessvisual perception

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PMCPMC12360698

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