Blog Posts

• The Embodied Mind, Part 1: The Fundamental Circularity
  September 13, 2026
  

  Everything in this post is drawn from Chapter 1 of The Embodied Mind by Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch (MIT Press, 1991). These are my notes and understanding of that chapter, written mainly to help me remember the ideas and to share them with colleagues who might find this interesting.

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• Circularity in Philosophy: A Simple Test
  June 04, 2026
  

  Circularity occurs when an argument assumes what it is trying to prove. Instead of providing evidence for a conclusion, the premises already contain or depend on that conclusion.

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• Real-time Control of a Hearing Instrument with EEG-Based Attention Decoding
  March 21, 2025
  

  As part of the NELI Group Journal Club at the University of Oldenburg, I presented the following paper:

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• Nasal Respiration Entrains Human Limbic Oscillations and Modulates Cognitive Function
  February 07, 2025
  

  As part of the NELI Group Journal Club at the University of Oldenburg, I presented the following paper:

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• Event-Related Potential Correlates of Mindfulness Meditation Competence
  October 18, 2024
  

  As part of the NELI Group Journal Club at the University of Oldenburg, I presented the following paper:

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• What Are We Really Decoding? Unveiling Biases in EEG-Based Decoding of the Spatial Focus of Auditory Attention
  July 27, 2024
  

  As part of the NELI Group Journal Club at the University of Oldenburg, I presented the following paper:

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• Neurofeedback Training of Auditory Selective Attention Enhances Speech-in-Noise Perception
  May 17, 2024
  

  As part of the NELI Group Journal Club at the University of Oldenburg, I presented the following paper:

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