Recent neuroscientific research highlighted interesting interactions between superior cognitive functions and the sensorimotor system. Overcoming the traditional views of the philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences, current empirical evidence shows that bodily states are the basis of information processing and that incarnation contributes to various aspects of mental phenomena. Starting from...
Interoception, the sensing of the body’s internal sensations, contributes to numerous aspects of human’s cognitive and affective abilities. Interoception mechanisms ensure physiological health through the coordination of homeostatic reflexes and allostatic responses. This review presents how deeply interoception controls our daily motivational behaviors and associated affective and emotional...
SYNOPSIS: Despite the importance of communication in person-focused care, biomedical knowledge and technical skill development are often prioritized in physical therapy education. As clinicians and educators, we contend that mindfulness and reflection nurture effective communication approaches and support physical therapists in navigating the complexity and uncertainty that comprise most...
Rehabilitation OncologyOctober 1, 2023Quinn Roderick, Kristina Kuil, Elizabeth Kunkler et al.2 citations
Background: Caring for an individual with cancer can be physically and emotionally draining and finding an effective intervention that supports caregivers is needed. The purpose of this systematic review was to investigate the psychological and biological effects of mind-body therapies for informal caregivers of individuals with cancer. Methods: A literature search was completed using 6...
Abstract On what it will be called the No Subject view, there is a sense in which one may be aware of a thought, conceived as an event in one’s stream of consciousness, without being aware of oneself thinking something. Philosophical work on the delusion of thought insertion is one of the areas in which the No Subject view has been highly influential: the view has framed what, in the philosophy...
The cognitive neuroscientist intends to empirically demonstrate what he supposes of memory, emotions and executive functions, for this he has as object of study, "the brain" and elaborates explanatory models that belong to mechanicism as well as to physicalism within a realistic scientism. But what happens when a mental property such as consciousness is irreductible to neural correlates? Faced...
Body-mind-based holistic methods of relaxation and improved well-being, such as yoga and meditation, improve body awareness and have often been used to enhance quality of life and the ability to cope with pain. We aimed to compare tactile sensory acuity and body awareness in healthy sedentary individuals who practiced yoga regularly and in control participants who had not practiced yoga....
Throughout the 20th century, the psychological literature has considered attention as being primarily directed at the outside world. More recent theories conceive attention as also operating on internal information, and mounting evidence suggests a single, shared attentional focus between external and internal information. Such sharing implies a cognitive architecture where attention needs to...
Visual perception can be modulated by the physiological potential for action. For instance, it was famously shown that a geographical slant appears steeper when wearing a heavy backpack than not wearing any. However, those results are not always replicated. In the present exploratory study, we test the hypothesis that the backpack weight's effect on perception relies on the ability of the...