Exploring neural markers of dereification in meditation based on EEG and personalized models of electrophysiological brain states.

Meditation may help people see thoughts and experiences less as solid realities—a process called dereification—and this mental shift can be tracked in the brain using EEG. By creating personalized models of brain states from electrical activity, researchers identified distinct neural patterns that correspond to moments of dereification during meditation. These patterns suggest that the brain moves through different electrophysiological states as a person becomes less identified with their thoughts. The findings indicate that EEG can capture subtle, moment-to-moment changes in how the mind relates to experience, offering a way to measure a core aspect of mindfulness that was previously difficult to study objectively.

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Abstract

Exploring neural markers of dereification in meditation based on EEG and personalized models of electrophysiological brain states.