Main description:

Neurophysiology of Silence, Volume 277 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, including chapters on Mindfulness, mind wandering and creativity, The cloud of unknowing: Cognitive dedifferentiation in whole-body perceptual deprivation, Embodying abstract concepts: the connection between meditation, empathy and introception, Measures of music-like experience emergent in a sonic ganzfeld: an example of perceptual structuring on the edge of silence, Doing out of silence: The effects of visual art on verbal creativity, Cessation experiences during meditation, The psychophysiology of covert behavior during goal directed behavior, and much more.

Contents:

1. Mindfulness, mind wandering and creativity
2. The cloud of unknowing: Cognitive dedifferentiation in whole-body perceptual deprivation
3. Embodieng abstract concepts: the connection between meditation, empathy and introception
4. Measures of music-like experience emergent in a sonic ganzfeld: an example of perceptual structuring on the edge of silence
5. Doing out of silence: The effects of visual art on verbal creativity
6. Cessation experiences during meditation
7. The psychophysiology of covert behaviour during goal directed behaviour
8. Quadrato Motor Training influences IL-1ss expression: implications for inflammatory state redaction
9. Awareness beyond meditation objects and states: from phenomenology of meditation to neuroscience
10. Transcending meditation
11. Increased relaxation, less boredom, and a faster passage of time during a period of silence in the forest
12. EEG connectivity and trance states