Scientific Reports
September 11, 2023
Tommaso Ciorli, Lorenzo Pia
Spatial perspective and identity of visual bodily stimuli are two key cues for the self-other distinction. However, how they emerge into visual awareness is largely unknown. Here, self- or other-hands presented in first- or third-person perspective were compared in a breaking-Continuous Flash Suppression paradigm (Experiment 1) measuring the time the stimuli need to access visual awareness, and...
Religions
September 11, 2023
Marcin Polkowski
1 citation
Late-medieval devotional literature embraced visualization as a means of providing the reader-devotee with the experience of being a virtual witness during a text-guided meditation. Based on a new reading of Cransken van minnen, a Middle Dutch prayer book from Franciscan milieus, this paper will propose a framework based on the interrelations between visualization and other key aspects pointed...
Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)
September 11, 2023
Na Zhang, Jingchen Zhang, Abigail H. Gewirtz et al.
To disentangle the effects of key dimensions of dispositional mindfulness on parenting, the present study tests the hypotheses that parental Nonreactivity moderates the association between Observing and effective parenting behaviors, and that parental inhibitory control mediates the relationship between Observing and parenting depending on levels of Nonreactivity. The sample consists of 294...
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
September 9, 2023
Liad Mudrik, Myrto I. Mylopoulos, Niccolò Negro et al.
13 citations
What is it that makes a life valuable? A popular view is that life’s moral worth depends in some way on its relationship to consciousness or subjective experience. But a practical application of this view requires the ability to test for consciousness, which is currently lacking. Here, we examine how theories of consciousness (ToCs) can help do so, focusing especially on difficult cases where...
Brain Sciences
September 7, 2023
Hayley N. Manke, Samuel S. Nunn, Agnieszka Sulima et al.
6 citations
BACKGROUND: As individual synthetic cathinones become scheduled and regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), new ones regularly are produced and distributed. One such compound is eutylone, a novel third-generation synthetic cathinone whose affective properties (and abuse potential) are largely unknown. The following experiments begin to characterize these effects and how they may...
PsyArXiv Preprints
September 6, 2023
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[Final version available as Open Access PDF from MIT Press: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5897/A-Drive-to-SurviveThe-Free-Energy-Principle-and] The Free Energy Principle proposes to reduce the goal-directed behaviour of a living agent to the preservation of homeostasis and then to analyse cognition as the process of pursuing this goal. I argue that this stability-based account fails...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
September 5, 2023
Albert Stuart Reece, Gary Kenneth Hulse
1 citation
Much recent attention has been directed toward the spatial organization of the cell nucleus and the manner in which three-dimensional topologically associated domains and transcription factories are epigenetically coordinated to precisely bring enhancers into close proximity with promoters to control gene expression. Twenty lines of evidence robustly implicate cannabinoid exposure with...
September 4, 2023
Sara Dellantonio, Luigi Pastore
Alexithymia is a sub-clinical condition characterized by impaired awareness of emotions. People suffering from alexithymia are not able to identify, conceptualize and thus verbalize their emotions; in emotionally salient situations they perceive bodily states instead of emotions. On the basis of an analysis of alexithymia, we argue that a purely cognitive perspective on emotions is implausible...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
September 1, 2023
Brenda M. Gannon, Lauren R Fitzgerald, Christopher O Godwin et al.
Humans often administer psychostimulants in party or music festival settings characterized by warm ambient temperatures, which may impact drug effects; however, preclinical studies rarely investigate drug effects at multiple ambient temperatures. Work with 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) suggests that the presence of a 3,4-methylenedioxy ring...
Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
September 2023
Bryan W. Jenkins, Catherine F Moore, Dan P Covey et al.
Background: Cannabis and its primary psychoactive constituent delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (D9-THC) produce biphasic, dose-dependent effects on anxiety. In addition to D9-THC, cannabis contains other "minor" cannabinoids and terpenes with purported therapeutic potential for the treatment of anxiety. Empirical data on potential therapeutic effects of these compounds is limited. The current study...