Hacker News with Generative AI: Brain Research

EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019) (frontiersin.org)
The “neural correlates of consciousness” (NCC) is a familiar topic in neuroscience, overlapping with research on the brain’s “default mode network.” Task-based studies of NCC by their nature recruit one part of the cortical network to study another, and are therefore both limited and compromised in what they can reveal about consciousness itself.
Psychedelics Reduce Anxiety Without Hallucinations (neurosciencenews.com)
New research has pinpointed the specific brain region and neuron type responsible for reducing anxiety using the psychedelic drug DOI, without triggering hallucinations.
Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience (thetransmitter.org)
Averaging is ubiquitous—and hides from us how the brain works.
Study Finds Brain Area Regulating Attention and Wakefulness (haaretz.com)