Professor Josipovic

Zoran Josipovic

Adjunct Assistant Professor

About Professor Josipovic

Zoran Josipovic, PhD, is a psychologist and neuroscientist with research interests in consciousness, meditation, and nonduality. He is the founding director of Nonduality Institute, an independent center for the scientific research of nondual awareness. Previously, he was a research associate at NYU CNS, and, following that, at NYU Langone Medical Center and NYU School of Medicine. Zoran has been a long-time practitioner of nondual meditation in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, Zen and Advaita Vedanta, and he teaches online courses on meditation and the brain. He is a certified teacher of the Realization Process, a contemporary method for accessing nondual experience.

Education

  • PhD Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience, Union Institute & University
  • MA Clinical Psychology, John F. Kennedy University
  • BA Asian Religions, SUNY

Courses Taught

  • GA2027 - Cognitive Neuroscience

  • GA2049 - Affective Neuroscience

  • G89.2041 Consciousness and the Brain

  • UC6874 - Cognitive Psychology

  • UC6873 - Perception

  • GT2145 - Mindfulness and Transformative Technologies

Awards and Grants

  • 2019 Yoga Science grant to Nonduality Institute for research on nondual awareness

  • 2017 Schwab Charitable DAF grant to Nonduality Institute

  • 2016 Mind Science Foundation grant for research on the effects of meditation on epilepsy

  • 2015 Hershey Family Foundation grant for research on the effects of meditation on epilepsy

  • 2010 & 2011 Tom Slick Award for research on Consciousness by the Mind Science Foundation.

Affiliations

  • Association for Psychological Science (APS)

  • Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)

  • New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)

  • Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

Selected Publications

  • Josipovic, Z. (2021). Implicit-explicit gradient of nondual awareness or consciousness as such. Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2021, Issue 2, niab031.

  • Josipovic, Z. and Miskovic, V. (2020). Nondual awareness and minimal phenomenal experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 2087.

  • Josipovic, Z. (2019). Nondual awareness: consciousness-as-such as non-representational reflexivity. Progress in Brain Research, 244, Ch. 12.

  • Vieten C, Wahbeh H, Cahn BR, MacLean K, Estrada M, Mills P, Josipovic Z. et al. (2018) Future directions in meditation research: Recommendations for expanding the field of contemplative science. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0205740. 

  • Josipovic, Z. (2016). Love and compassion meditation - a nondual perspective.  In: Advances in Meditation Research: Neuroscience and Clinical Applications. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 

  • Galanter, M., Josipovic, Z., Dermatis, H., Weber, J. & Millard, M.A. (2016) An initial fMRI study on neural correlates of prayer in members of Alcoholics Anonymous, American Journal of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, 1097-9891.

  • Josipovic, Z & Baars, B.J. (2015). What can neuroscience learn from contemplative practices - special topic editorial, Frontiers in Consciousness Research.

  • Josipovic, Z. (2014). Neural correlates of nondual awareness in meditation. In: Advances in Meditation Research: Neuroscience and Clinical Applications. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1307

  • Josipovic Z (2013). Freedom of the Mind. Front. Psychol. 4:538. 

  • Josipovic, Z., Dinstein, I., Weber, J., Heeger, D.J., (2012). Influence of meditation on anti-correlated networks in the brain. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 5:183. 

  • Josipovic, Z. (2010). Duality and Nonduality in Meditation Research. Consciousness and Cognition, 19: 4.

  • Kozhevnikov, M., Luchakova, O., Josipovic, Z., Motes, MA, (2009). The Enhancement of Visual- Spatial Processing Efficiency through Buddhist Deity Meditation. Psychological Science, 20: 5, 645-653.