My research focuses on using first-person experimental methods to inform the nature of consciousness and the self. My particular research interests are: first-person methods, the self, awareness, contemplative experience, introspection, perceptual experience, panpsychism and idealism. I have also conducted research in experimental psychology, in particular, on first-person approaches to consciousness, conceptual combination, working memory and reasoning.
Ramm, B.J., Lumma, AL., Sparby, T & Weger, U. (2024). Seeing the Void: Experiencing Emptiness and Awareness with the Headless Way Technique. Mindfulness. 15, 958–976. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-024-02341-6
How to Know that You're Not a Zombie. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00769-1
Pure Awareness Experience . Inquiry, 66: 3, 394-416, DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2019.1592704 (published online 2019)
Panpsychism and the First-Person Perspective, Mind and Matter, 19(1), 75-106.
The Technology of Awakening: Experiments in Zen Phenomenology. Religions, 12(3), 192.
Experiments in Visual Perspective: Size Experience. Argumenta, 5 (2) : 263-278
First-Person Experiments: A Characterisation and Defence. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 9, 449–467.
Self-Experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 24(11-12), 142-166.
Dimensions of Reliability in Phenomenal Judgment. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23(3-4), 101-127.
Bruza, P. D., Kitto, K., Ramm, B. J. and Sitbon, L. A Probabilistic Framework for Analysing the Compositionality of Conceptual Combinations . Journal of Mathematical Psychology 67:26-38.
Cutmore, T. R. H., Halford, G. S., Wang, Y., Ramm, B. J., Spokes, T. and Shum, D. H. K. Neural Correlates of Deductive Reasoning: An ERP Study with the Wason Selection Task. International Journal of Psychophysiology 98(3):381-388.
Luca, C., Halford, G. S., Zalesky, A., Harding, I. H., Ramm, B. J., Cutmore, T. Shum, D. H. K. and Mattingley, J. B. Complexity in Relational Processing Predicts Changes in Functional Brain Network Dynamics . Cerebral Cortex 24 (9):2283-2296.
Ramm, B. J. and Halford, G. S. Novelty and Processing Demands in Conceptual Combination. Australian Journal of Psychology 64 (4):199-208.
Bruza, P. D., Kitto, K., Ramm, B. J., Sitbon, L., Song, D. and Blomberg, S. Quantum-Like Non-Separability of Concept Combinations, Emergent Associates and Abduction. Logic Journal of IGPL, 20(2), 445-457.
Kitto, K., Ramm, B. J., Sitbon, L. and Bruza, P. D. Quantum Theory Beyond the Physical: Information in Context . Axiomathes 21 (2):331-345.
Ramm, B. J., Cummins, T. D. R. and Slaughter, V. Specifying the Human Body Configuration.Visual Cognition 18 (6):898-919.
Bruza, P. D. and Ramm, B. J. Absolute Present, Zen and Schrödinger's One Mind. In, Quanta and Mind: Essays on the Connection between Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness. de Barros J., Montemayor C. (eds.), p. 189-200. Synthese Library, vol 414. Springer, Cham. PDF
First-Person Investigations of Consciousness, School of Philosophy, The Australian National University, 2016
Attention and Relations in Conceptual Combination, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, 2006.