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August 22, 2023 Kathryn Maude
Tracing medieval English mysticism back into the early medieval period, this chapter reads Barking Abbey’s mystical experiences as a form of communal resistance. The early medieval nuns of Barking Abbey experience rich visions of their predecessors, in particular Saint Ethelburga, the first Abbess of Barking. In one of these visionary experiences, Abbess Elfgiva experiences being crushed under...
Moscow Economic Journal August 21, 2023 Denis Banchenko, Tatyana Burilova, Igor' Nehaev et al.
Recently, there has been a significant increase in interest in the sale of NFTs. These digital assets can be used not only to address the issue of owning digital assets but also to form the basis of a business model for funding fundamental academic research, alongside cryptocurrencies and other blockchain technologies. Concurrently, a scientific study conducted by Daniele Pepe from the...
Routledge eBooks August 11, 2023 Douglas Thomas
BDSM and kink practitioners sometimes describe scenes that induce altered dream-like states with blurred boundaries and vivid transcendent imagery. Firsthand accounts illustrate the intensity and transformational character of such experiences, which can be characterized as ecstatic. The activities of alternative sexualities are a modern iteration of humanity’s archetypal fascination with...
IS4SI Summit 2023 August 11, 2023 G. Dodig-Crnkovic
: This article addresses the background and nature of the recent success of Large Language Models (LLMs), tracing the history of their fundamental concepts from Leibniz and his calculus ratiocinator to Turing’s computational models of learning, and ultimately to the current development of GPTs. As Kahneman’s “System 1”-type processes, GPTs lack mechanisms that would render them conscious, but...
Somnologie: Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin August 4, 2023 Simon Kempe, Anna-Julia Krome, Werner Köpp et al. 2 citations
Abstract Background For empirical dream research, numerous scales and rating systems exist for different facets of dreaming. Objective The present study aimed to compare two different approaches for dream report analysis focusing on content and affect regulation, respectively. Materials and methods The Hall and Van de Castle Coding System (HVCCS), complemented by two global rating scales, as...
arXiv (Cornell University) August 3, 2023 Nicolas Deperrois, Mihai A. Petrovici, Walter Senn et al. 1 citation preprint
Semantic representations in higher sensory cortices form the basis for robust, yet flexible behavior. These representations are acquired over the course of development in an unsupervised fashion and continuously maintained over an organism's lifespan. Predictive learning theories propose that these representations emerge from predicting or reconstructing sensory inputs. However, brains are...
CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology August 1, 2023 Roneil Gopal Malkani 4 citations
OBJECTIVE: This article reviews rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) and other REM sleep parasomnias, particularly recurrent isolated sleep paralysis and nightmare disorder. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: People with RBD have dream enactment behaviors that can be distressing and cause injuries to themselves or a bed partner. Diagnosis of RBD still requires video polysomnography but new...
Consciousness and Cognition August 1, 2023 Burak Erdeniz, Ege Tekgün, Bigna Lenggenhager et al. 2 citations
The peripersonal space, that is, the limited space surrounding the body, involves multisensory coding and representation of the self in space. Previous studies have shown that peripersonal space representation and the visual perspective on the environment can be dramatically altered when neurotypical individuals self-identify with a distant avatar (i.e., in virtual reality) or during clinical...
PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL July 31, 2023 Taras Novytskyi, Halyna Katolyk
Post-traumatic stress disorder(further – PTSD) is a complex and multi-faceted psychic phenomenon, which is in need of rigorous research. The number of studies done on PTSD is vast, and the number of its treatments – starting with evidence-based exposure therapy and medication and ending with experimental treatments like transcranial magnet stimulation and psychoactive substance use – are very...
Qeios July 24, 2023 Mark Titleman
This proposal incorporates three experiments concerning perceptual disturbances: one analyzing eye movement and associated electrical activity in hallucinating patients, another assessing dream recall in patients exposed to weak pulsed electromagnetic fields (EMF), and finally the examination of phosphene induction via transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and associated electrical activity....