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The paper compares brain activity during self-caught and probe-caught mind blanking events using fMRI, finding behavioral convergence but neural divergence in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.

This study shows that cognitive co-activation dominates fMRI synchrony in the awake brain but is replaced by anatomical and molecular constraints during consciousness perturbations.

This study shows that cardiac activity slows when auditory deviations are synchronized with heartbeats, regardless of their type or predictability.

The paper investigates the neural correlates of mind blanking (MB) using EEG-fMRI and experience-sampling, finding that MB is associated with distinct brain connectivity patterns depending on vigilance levels.

The paper examines cardiac responses to auditory irregularities during sleep, showing slowed cardiac activity to global deviants in REM sleep and cardiac acceleration in light NREM sleep, indicating hierarchical information processing variations.

This study uses connectome harmonic decomposition to show that ketamine-induced unresponsiveness increases localised harmonics, similar to psychedelic states, unlike traditional sedation which increases global harmonics.

This study links psilocybin-induced brain dynamics with phenomenological changes, showing hyperconnectivity correlates with oceanic boundlessness.

The paper shows that variations in autonomic arousal influence the likelihood of reporting mind-blanking events, with both low and high arousal conditions associated with increased reports.

The paper investigates the neural correlates of mind-blanking without induction, finding deactivations in multiple brain regions and proposing a neuronal profile associated with the phenomenon.

The paper maps brain states of reduced consciousness into a low-dimensional space using whole-brain modeling and deep learning, revealing an orderly trajectory from wakefulness to brain injury.

This study maps how pharmacological drugs alter brain function by linking neurotransmitter receptor distribution with drug-induced changes in functional MRI connectivity.

This study examines how attentional control and arousal regulate ongoing mental states in young and older adults, finding age-dependent differences in mind-wandering and mind-blank states.

The paper develops a framework to distinguish brain states by their stability and reversibility, using whole-brain models to analyze consciousness levels and their response to perturbations.

This paper identifies mind blanking as a distinct mental state with unique neurobehavioral and neural characteristics during wakefulness.

The paper examines dynamic functional connectivity patterns in meditators during an interoceptive attention task and rest periods, finding task-related changes in network organization.

This study examines functional reorganization in children after hemispherotomy, finding altered perfusion and connectivity patterns in the remaining hemisphere.