Publications

1. Glicksohn, J., Berkovich-Ohana, A., Balaban-Dotan, T., Goldstein, A., & Donchin, O. (2009). Time production and EEG alpha revisited. NeuroQuantology, 7: 138-151.

2. Glicksohn, J. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2011). From trance to transcendence: A neurocognitive approach. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 32, 49-62.

3. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J., & Goldstein, A. (2012). Mindfulness-induced changes in gamma band activity – implications for the default mode network, self-reference and attention. Clinical Neurophysiology, 123: 700-710.

4. Balaban Dotan Ben Soussan, T. Glicksohn, J. Goldstein, A. Berkovich-Ohana A. & O. Donchin (2013). Into the square and out of the box: Effects of Quadrato Motor Training on creativity and EEG coherence. Plos ONE, 8: e55023.

5. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J., & Goldstein, A. (2013). Studying the default mode and its Mindfulness-induced changes using EEG functional connectivity. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1–9. doi:10.1093/scan/nst153

6. Gilaie-Dotan, S., Hahamy-Dubossarsky, A., Nir, Y., Berkovich-Ohana, A., Bentin, S., & Malach, R. (2013). Resting state functional connectivity reflects abnormal task-activated patterns in a developmental object agnostic. NeuroImage, 70: 189-198.

7. Dor-Ziderman, Y., Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J., & Goldstein, A. (2013). Mindfulness-induced selflessness: a MEG neurophenomenological study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 582. Doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00582.

8. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Dor-Ziderman, Y., Glicksohn, J., & Goldstein, A. (2013). Alterations in the sense of time, space and body in the Mindfulness-trained brain: A neurophenomenologically-guided MEG study. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 912. Doi: 10.3389 /fpsyg.2013.00912.

9. Balaban Dotan Ben Soussan, T., Berkovich-Ohana A., Glicksohn, J. & Goldstein, A. (2014). A suspended act: increased reflectivity and gender-dependent electrophysiological change following Quadrato Motor Training. Frontiers in Psychology 5, 55. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00055

10. Berkovich-Ohana, A. & Glicksohn, J. (2014). The consciousness state space (CSS) – a unifying model for consciousness and self. Frontiers in Psychology. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00341. 1-19.

11. Yellin, D., Berkovich-Ohana, A. & Malach, A. (2015). Coupling between pupil fluctuations and resting-state fMRI uncovers a slow build-up of antagonistic responses in the human cortex. NeuroImage, 106: 414–427.

12. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Wilf, M., Arieli, A., Kahana, R. & Malach, R. (2015). Repetitive speech elicits widespread deactivation in the human cortex: the “Mantra” effect?. Brain and Behavior. Doi: 10.1002/brb3.346.

13. Dotan Ben-Soussan T., Glicksohn, J. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2015). From cerebellar activation and connectivity to cognition: a review of the Quadrato Motor Training. BioMed Research International. doi.org/10.1155/2015/954901, 1-11.

14. Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2015). A case study of a meditation-induced altered state: increased overall gamma synchronization. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 10.1007/s11097-015-9435, 1-16.

15. Dotan Ben-Soussan T., Berkovich-Ohana, A. Piervincenzi, C., Joseph Glicksohn, J. & Filippo Carducci (2015). Embodied cognitive flexibility and neuroplasticity following Quadrato Motor Training. Frontiers in Psychology. 6: 1021. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01021

16. Ataria, Y., # Dor-Ziderman, Y. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2015). How does it feel to lack a sense of boundaries? A case study of a long-term mindfulness meditator. Consciousness and Cognition, 37: 133-147.

17. Berkovich-Ohana, A. & Glicksohn, J. (2016). Meditation, absorption, transcendent experience and affect - tying it all together via the Consciousness State Space (CSS) model. Mindfulness. DOI: 10.1007/s12671-015-0481-9. pp: 1-10.

18. Dotan Ben-Soussan T., Glicksohn, J., & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2016). Attentional Effort, Mindfulness, and Altered States of Consciousness Experiences Following Quadrato Motor Training. Mindfulness. Doi: 10.1007/s12671-015-0469-5. pp: 1-9.

19. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Harel, M., Hahami-Dubossarsky A., Arieli, A., & Malach, R. (2016). Alterations in task-induced activity and resting-state fluctuations in visual and DMN areas revealed in long-term meditators. NeuroImage, 135: 125–134.

20. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Harel, M., Hahami-Dubossarsky A., Arieli, A., & Malach, R. (2016). Data for default network reduced functional connectivity in meditators, negatively correlated with meditation expertise. Data in Brief, 8: 910–914.

21. Dor-Ziderman, Y, Ataria, Y., Fulder, S., Goldstein, A. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2016). Self-specific processing in the meditating brain: a MEG neurophenomenology study. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 1: 1-13.

22. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J. Dotan Ben-Soussan T. & Goldstein, A. (2016). Creativity is enhanced by long-term mindfulness training and is negatively correlated with trait default-mode-related low-gamma inter-hemispheric connectivity. Mindfulness. Doi:10.1007/s12671-016-0649-y. pp: 1-11.

23. Berkovich-Ohana, A. & Wittmann, M. (2017). A typology of altered states according to the consciousness state space (CSS) model: A special reference to subjective time. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 24: 37-61.

24. Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2017). Radical Neurophenomenology: We Cannot Solve the Problems Using the Same Kind of Thinking We Used When We Created Them. Constructivist Foundations, 118-121.

25. Ergas, O. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2017). The Self-Generative Mind in Education: Review and Future Directions. Mind, Brain and Education, 1-14.

26. Glicksohn, J., Berkovich-Ohana, A., # Mauro, F. & Dotan Ben-Soussan T. (2017). Time Perception and the Experience of Time when Immersed in an Altered Sensory Environment. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol. 11: 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00487

27. Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2018). What Is the Exact Directional Causality Between Affect, Action and Time-Consciousness? Constructivist Foundations, 13: 105-107.

28. Millière, R., Carhart-Harris, R., Roseman, L. # Trautwein, M. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2018) Psychedelics, Meditation, and Self-Consciousness. Frontiers in Psychology, 9: 1475. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01475

29.  Glicksohn, J. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2019). When meditators avoid counting during time production things get interesting. PsyCh Journal 8: 17- 

30. Dotan Ben-Soussan, T., Mauro F., Lasaponara S., Glicksohn J., Marson F. and Berkovich-Ohana A. (2019). Fully immersed: state absorption and electrophysiological effects of the OVO Whole-Body Perceptual Deprivation chamber. Progress in Brain Research, 244. 

31. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Lavy, S. & Jennings, P. (2019). What could teachers learn from the neuroscience of meditation and self-experience? Progress in Brain Research, 244: 355-385. 

32. Glicksohn, J., Dotan Ben-Soussan T., Berkovich-Ohana, A., & Mauro, F. (2019). Individual EEG alpha profiles indicate individual alpha experiences in whole-body perceptual deprivation. Neuropsychologia, 125: 81-92. 

33. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Noy, N., Harel, M., Furman-Haran, E., Arieli, A. & Malach, R. (2020) Inter-participant consistency of language-processing networks during abstract thoughts. NeuroImage, 211:  116626.

34. Lavy, S. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2020) From Teachers' Mindfulness to Students' Thriving: The Mindful Self in School Relationships (MSSR) Model. Mindfulness. Mindfulness,  1-16; DOI 10.1007/s12671-020-01418-2.

35. Berkovich-Ohana, A., Lavy, S. & #Shanbour, K. (2020). A pilot study on mindfulness-based intervention in Arabic teachers. Frontiers in Psychology – Educational psychology, 1-9; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.542986.

36.  Berkovich-Ohana, A., #Dor-Ziderman, Y. #Trautwein, F-M., #Schweitzer, Y., Fulder, S., #Nave, O., & Ataria, Y. (2020). The hitchhiker's guide to neurophenomenology - Examples from studying self-boundaries with meditators. Frontiers in Psychology – Consciousness Studies, 1-19, doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01680.

37. Berkovich-Ohana, A. Furman, E., Malach, R. Arieli, A., & Gilae-Dotan, S. (2020). Studying the precuneus reveals structure-function-affect correlation in long-term meditators. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 1203–1216, doi-org.ezproxy.haifa.ac.il/10.1093/scan/nsaa137.

38. *#Nave, O., #Trautwein, F.-M., Ataria, Y., #Dor-Ziderman, Y., #Schweitzer, Y., Fulder, S. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2021). Self-Boundary Dissolution in Meditation: A Phenomenological Investigation. Brain Research, 11(6), 819; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11060819.

39. *#David, A., Rubinstein, O. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2021). Math Anxiety, Self-Centeredness, and Dispositional Mindfulness. Journal of Educational Psychology 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000550.

40. *#Panitz, DY., Berkovich-Ohana, A. & Mendelshon, A. (2021). Age-related changes in functional connectivity along the hippocampal longitudinal axis. Hippocampus Journal 31(10):1115-1127. DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23377.

41. *#Shemesh, L., Mendelshon, A., #Panitz, DY., & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2021). Mindfulness meditation enhances long-term declarative memory. Psychological Research, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01642-6.

42. *#Ben-Uriel, L., Lavy, S. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2023). The Effects of Mindfulness on Mother-Child Relationships and Maternal Well-Being During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Israel. Child & Family Social Work, 28:4, 932-948 https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13013.

43. *Giommi, F1., Bauer, P.R.1, Berkovich-Ohana, A.1, Barendregt, H., Brown, K.W., Gallagher, S., Nyklíček, I., Ostafin, B., Raffone, A., Slagter, H.A., Trautwein, F-M., & Vago, D. (2023). The (In)flexible self: Psychopathology, mindfulness, and neuroscience. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 23(4), 100381. 

44. *Gallagher, S., Raffone, A., Berkovich-Ohana, A., Barendregt, H., Bauer, P., Brown, K.W., Giommi, F., Nyklíček, I., Ostafin, B., Slagter, H.A., Trautwein, F-M., & Vago, D. (2023). The self-pattern and Buddhist psychology. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02118-3.

45.  *#Górska, G., Berkovich-Ohana, A. & #Trautwein, F.-M. (2023) Socio-affective Video Task (SoVT) validation in an Israeli sample: SoVT as a predictor of prosocial attitudes. PLoS ONE 18(12):e0289465. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289465.

46. #Y. David, #Y. Dor-Ziderman, & A. Berkovich-Ohana. Ayahuasca-induced personal death experiences: prevalence, characteristics, and impact on attitudes towards death, life, and the environment. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14:1-16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1287961.

47. #Trautwein, F., #Schweitzer, Y., #Dor-Ziderman‏, ‪Y, #Nave, O., Ataria, Y., Fulder, S., & Berkovich-Ohana, A. Suspending the embodied self in meditation attenuates beta oscillations in posterior medial cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, in press. 

48.  Berkovich-Ohana, A., Brown, K.W., Gallagher, S., Barendregt, H., Bauer, P., Giommi, F., Nyklíček, I., Ostafin, B., Raffone, A., Slagter, H.A., #Trautwein, F-M., & Vago, D. From self to selflessness: How meditation transforms the self-pattern. Mindfulness, in press. 

Editorial Papers 

1. *Wittmann, M. Giersch, A. & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2019). Altered states of consciousness: With special reference to time and the self. PsyCh Journal 8: 5–7. 

2. *Dotan Ben-Soussan, T., Berkovich-Ohana, A., Besiau, J-Y., Carducci, F., Glicksohn, J. & Srinivasan, N. (Eds).  Neurophysiology of Silence: Neuroscientific, Psychological, Educational and Contemplative Perspectives (2021). Frontiers in Psychology - Consciousness Research, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.675614/full.

3. *Simione, L., Raffone, A., Kirov, R., Overgaard, M., Berkovich-Ohana, A., & Cleeremans, A. (2023). Emerging Trends on Methodological Issues in Consciousness Research. Frontiers in Psychology - Consciousness Research.

Authored books 

1.  Berkovich-Ohana, A. Segev, N. Shulman, E., Rudrauf, D. & Segev, I. Perspectives on consciousness: The role of subjective experience. MIT press.

In the media 

1.  announcement of acceptance to the Tiny Blue Dot "Perception Box" funding project.