"‘Minds’ in ‘Homer’" is a 2021 empirical research study on mental language in the Homeric epics which argued that the Iliad has much less mental language than the Odyssey, statistically speaking. Following peer review, the findings were accepted as a conference paper for the twelfth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, from October 11–14, 2022.

In his groundbreaking 1976 work, psychologist Julian Jaynes argued that as early as 1,000 BCE, man was not aware of himself. Instead, one side of his brain exhibited executive control through visual and auditory hallucinations during stressful situations. According to Jaynes, man thought that these were the voices of gods. As humans interacted with one another in difficult periods of migration, man became aware of himself and adopted the "bicameral voice" as his own, leaving man to wonder: why have the gods left us? The answer, according to the author, is that rational, subjective thought took the place of hallucinated voices.

The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought is a 1946 book by Bruno Snell, a German classical philologist, that concerns Homeric epics. Snell's revolutionary thesis was that modern man, and his psychology, stem from the development of Greek intellectualism in the first one thousand years before the common era.

The Greeks and the Irrational is a 1951 book by Eric Robertson Dodds, an Irish classical scholar. The book challenged popular notions of the Greeks being wholly logical, citing a wide variety of cultural evidence. Dodds was a former Regius professor of Greek, and his book earned him praise for its novel analysis.

Conversations on Consciousness is a collection of transcribed interviews related to the theories of Julian Jaynes. The major focus of Jaynes' work was the origin of human consciousness. The work was compiled and edited by Marcel Kuijsten of the Julian Jaynes Society.

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind is a collection of works related to the theories of Julian Jaynes. The major focus of Jaynes' work was the origin of human consciousness, as evidenced by evidence from history, mythology, anthropology, and psychology. The work was edited and published by Marcel Kuijsten of the Julian Jaynes Society.