Research

The research activities of the department are related to the following areas and topics.

Models of Mind-Matter Relations

• Contextual Emergence
• Mental States from Neurodynamics
• Neural Macrostates
• Mental Causation
• Dual-Aspect Monism
• Psychophysical Correlations
• Journal "Mind and Matter"

Generalized Quantum Theory

• Necker-Zeno Model for Bistable Perception
• Temporal Nonlocality of Mental States
• Complementary Mental Descriptions
• Order Effectcs in Sequential Measurements
• Learning in Networks

Multistability and Acategorialty

• Mechanisms of Bistable Perception
• Binocular Rivalry
• Brain Electrical Oscillations and Feature Binding
• Perception of Geometric-Optical Illusions
• States with Non-Conceptual Content
• Acategorial States in Exceptional Experiences

Conceptual and Methodological Issues

• Concepts of Research in Neuroscience
• Causal Closure and Determinacy
• Research Between Anomaly and Orthodoxy
• Scoring Rules for Prediction
• Phase Synchronization
• Adaptive Time Series Analysis
• Compound Poisson Processes