Marissa Ericson studies how consciousness emerges from the dialogue between brain and body. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Neuroscience and Quantitative Psychology from USC, where she investigated the neural basis of schizophrenia using electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs). Her expertise spans multiple psychophysiological measurement techniques, including surface electromyography (sEMG) and electrocardiography (EKG), which she uses to explore brain-heart synchrony and multi-organ coherence. After completing her B.A. in Neuroscience and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, she developed research interests bridging hard science and theoretical frameworks: from quantum theories of consciousness and General Resonance Theory to computational models of information processing and sub-threshold perceptual phenomena. She is a data scientist and statistician, professor of psychology and neuroscience at UCI, Research Director for the EpiEnergetics foundation, dissertation chair, editor, and writer.