Ruben Laukkonen PhD

Ruben Eero Laukkonen a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Southern Cross University, Goldcoast, Australia. He researched how long-term meditation practice affects the most basic processes of the brain, thereby shedding light on just how malleable and plastic humans are. Is it possible that meditation genuinely allows practitioners to perceive the world in a more direct way, beyond conceptions? Before this postdoc, most of his research (including his Ph.D.) was on the insight experience. He has conducted (or helped conduct) at least a dozen empirical studies on Eureka moments and continues to do theoretical work on the link between feelings of insight and our understanding of what is true.