Magdalena Paluchowska is a researcher at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, where she works with a systems neuroscience lab studying altered states of consciousness. Her interests include lucid dreaming, perceptual diversity, and the neural and cognitive processes that shape conscious experience.
Magdalena Paluchowska
Researcher
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
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