<aside> 🌻 About Kati

Kathryn is a neuroscientist and dedicated meditation practitioner, with over 20 years of meditation experience. Kati has sat retreats across the US, Europe, and India and she has collected behavioral and neuroimaging data from meditators across several retreats, events, and laboratories.

Supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, she earned her PhD in 2018, using fMRI to examine attention and default mode network function in experienced Vipassana meditators. After completing her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Kati moved to Berkeley CA to start The Berkeley Alembic Foundation with Michael Taft & Erik Davis.

Kati is currently the Executive Director of The Alembic, the CSO of Jhourney.io, and a researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Previously, Kati designed and taught her course ‘Meditation and the Brain’ at Stanford, taught Cognitive Psychology at Boston University, and has given invited lectures at MIT, Harvard University, IIT Delhi, and elsewhere.

Kati is authorized to teach meditation by Michael Taft.

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📻 Podcasts

• 📌 Deconstructing Yourself: A Conversation with Kati Devaney
• Nonzero: Psychedelics, Meditation, and the Brain
• EvolutionFM: The Neuroscience of Meditation: What we Know and Don’t Know
• The Stoa: Building an Alembic
• Reach Truth: Neuroscientific Research and Contemplative Communities
• Buddhist Geeks: The SF Dharma Collective

📰 Popular Writing

• Hey, why aren't we doing more research about spiritual awakening, with Sasha Chapin
• The science behind the world’s most miraculous nap, or, Nirodha Samāpatti, with Sasha Chapin

🧠 Academic Publications

• Cessations of consciousness in meditation: Advancing a scientific understanding of nirodha samāpatti
• Attention and default mode network assessments of meditation experience during active cognition and rest
• Retinotopically Targeted Temporal Interference Stimulation to Human Visual Cortex
• Identification of visual attentional regions of the temporoparietal junction in individual subjects using a vivid, novel oddball paradigm

All Papers (via Google Scholar)

💌 Contact

☎️ Patreon (experiment! monthly meditation & neuroscience AMA)

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