Frontiers in Neuroscience
October 31, 2019
Andrea Nani, Jordi Manuello, Lorenzo Mancuso et al.
117 citations
During the last three decades our understanding of the brain processes underlying consciousness and attention has significantly improved, mainly because of the advances in functional neuroimaging techniques. Still, caution is needed for the correct interpretation of these empirical findings, as both research and theoretical proposals are hampered by a number of conceptual difficulties. We...
bioRxiv Preprint Server
August 13, 2015
Jordi Manuello, Ugo Vercelli, Andrea Nani et al.
1 citation
preprint
Mindfulness meditation has been practiced in the East for more than two millennia, but in last years also Western neurscientists drown their attention to it. Mindfulness basically refers to moment to moment awareness. In this review we summarize different hypotheses concerning effects of mindfulness meditation practice and cerebral correlates accounting for these; furthermore we expose some of...
Consciousness
2014
Andrea Eugenio Cavanna, Andrea Nani
Benjamin Libet (Chicago, Illinois, 12 April 1916–Davis, California, 23 July 2007) was a scientist who conducted pioneering studies on consciousness and free will. He studied physiology, and between 1945 and 1948, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. During his academic career, he was a lecturer at the Albany Medical College, New York; research fellow in...
Consciousness
2014
Andrea Eugenio Cavanna, Andrea Nani
John Kevin O’Regan (born on 24 May 1948) is an American neuroscientist who has lived and worked in Paris since 1971. He studied theoretical physics at Sussex and Cambridge Universities and in 1975 gained a PhD from Cambridge University for his research on eye movements during reading tasks. His interest in the study of the perceived stability in the visual process has led him to the discoveries...
Consciousness
2014
Andrea Eugenio Cavanna, Andrea Nani
Max Velmans, born 27 May 1942, is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 1994, he cofounded the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society and made several publications in the area of consciousness studies, which culminated in a book titled Understanding Consciousness . In this book – which thus far has had two...
Consciousness
2014
Andrea Eugenio Cavanna, Andrea Nani
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher currently teaching Philosophy and Law at New York University. In 1974, he published an article – titled What Is It Like to Be a Bat? – that had enormous resonance in the community of philosophers of mind. The expression used by Nagel in his article has become a mesmerizing phrase in the common usage among philosophers to indicate the subjective feature of...
Consciousness
2014
Andrea Eugenio Cavanna, Andrea Nani
Paul Churchland (born on 21 October 1942 in Vancouver, Canada) and Patricia Smith Churchland (born on 16 July 1943 in Oliver, British Columbia, Canada) are Canadian-American philosophers whose work has focused on integrating the disciplines of philosophy of mind and neuroscience in a new approach that has been called neurophilosophy . They are also central figures in the philosophical stance...