Entropy
August 30, 2023
Lachlan Kent
4 citations
The principle of mental gravity contends that the mind uses physical gravity as a mental model or simulacrum to express the relation between the inner self and the outer world in terms of "UP"-ness and "DOWN"-ness. The simulation of increased gravity characterises a continuum of mental gravity which states includes depression as the paradigmatic example of being down, low, heavy, and slow. The...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
March 1, 2023
Lachlan Kent, Barnaby Nelson, Georg Northoff
35 citations
Time is a core aspect of psychopathology with potential for clinical use and early intervention. Temporal experience, perception, judgement and processing are distorted in various psychiatric disorders such as mood (depression and mania), anxiety, autistic, impulse-control, dissociative and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders. Can these disorders of time be used as early diagnostic or...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
2021
Lachlan Kent, Marc Wittmann
Abstract There are plenty of issues to be solved in order for researchers to agree on a neural model of consciousness. Here we emphasize an often under-represented aspect in the debate: time consciousness. Consciousness and the present moment both extend in time. Experience flows through a succession of moments and progresses from future predictions, to present experiences, to past memories....
Consciousness and Cognition
August 1, 2019
Lachlan Kent, George Van Doorn, Britt Klein
11 citations
This study uses a combined categorical-dimensional approach to depict a hierarchical framework for consciousness similar to, and contiguous with, factorial models of cognition (cf., intelligence). On the basis of the longstanding definition of time consciousness, the analysis employs a dimension of temporal extension, in the same manner that psychology has temporally organised memory (i.e.,...
Timing & Time Perception
August 30, 2018
Lachlan Kent
16 citations
Duration perception is not the same as perception duration. Time is an object of perception in its own right and is qualitatively different to exteroceptive or interoceptive perception of concrete objects or sensations originating within the self. In reviewing evidence for and against the experienced moment, White (2017, Psychol. Bull., 143, 735–756) proposed a model of global integration of...
Lachlan Kent
preprint
The theory of Mental Gravity explains what it means to be psychologically “down” and how mental downness manifests in various aspects of cognition and behaviour, emotion and personality, the brain, phenomenology, and psychopathology. The theory contends that Mental Gravity is experienced as a simulation of (increased) physical gravity that communicates different mental states associated with...