Frontiers in Psychology
2019
Pasi Pölönen, Otto Lappi, Mari Tervaniemi
Qigong is a Meditative Movement exercise that consists of mindful movements, regulation of breathing and attentional control. In this study we investigated whether Qigong practice might be associated with the affect and flow of its practitioners during the exercise. Although practitioners of Meditative Movement anecdotally describe flow-like experiences and strong effects on affect there are...
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
2019
Richard A. Carlson
Multiple Perspectives on Consciousness for Cognitive Science Richard A. Carlson (racarlson@psu.edu) Department of Psychology, Penn State University 613 Moore Building, University Park, PA 16802 USA The huge contemporary literature on consciousness spans multiple disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. This tutorial will introduce participants to major proposals about...
2019
C. Coseru
The thriving contemporary enterprise of Consciousness Studies owes its success in large measure to two late 20th-century intellectual developments in cognitive science and its allied philosophy of mind: a growing interest in the study of the neurobiological processes that underlie consciousness and cognition, and the rehabilitation of first-person approaches to the study of consciousness...
PLoS One
2019
Wen Chen, Chuansheng Chen, Pin Yang et al.
As a special kind of handwriting with a brush, Chinese calligraphic handwriting (CCH) requires a large amount of practice with high levels of concentration and emotion regulation. Previous studies have showed that long-term CCH training has positive effects physically (induced by handwriting activities) and psychologically (induced by the state of relaxation and concentration), the latter of...
Progress in Brain Research
2019
Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan, Federica Mauro, Stefano Lasaponara et al.
Absorption, the ability to highly focus attention, as well as openness to self-altering experiences, is an important psychological construct, closely related to deep-meditation states and other altered states of consciousness. Yet, little is known about the electrophysiological profile of states of absorption, possibly due to the difficulty to induce this state in the lab. While most studies...
Siberian Journal of Philosophy
2019
M. Shcheglova
Speaking about the philosophy of mind researchers address the concept of «qualia». In spite of the fact that this term entered the philosophical discourse at the beginning of the 20th century, the legitimacy of its use is still in question. The starting methodological point of the dispute is whether it is necessary to study the quality nature of consciousness separately or we can treat this...
International journal of English and literature
2019
Nguyen Ly
Although Nguyen Du was a Confucian scholar, his thoughts were influenced not only by Confucianism but also by other philosophical schools, including Zen Buddhism (Zen-shū 禅宗 禅宗 禅宗 禅宗), especially by the thought of Mahāyāna Meditation through Prajñā Pāramitā Hridaya Sūtra.This article would like to introduce Prajñā Pāramitā Hridaya Sūtra and present its influences on Shino poems of the great...
Psychopathology
2019
Jaakko Seikkula
Phenomenology often looks at psychosis as a defined pathological state. In this paper, psychosis is not seen as a (pathological) state but as a way to respond in extreme stress. It is psychological functioning of the embodied and relational mind, and psychotic experience can be seen as one form of affective arousal among any other affects. Taken the point of views of Emmanuel Levinas and...
2019
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists that considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports...
Information—Consciousness—Reality
2019
J. Glattfelder
Finally, the human mind faces its own nature. By extending the information-theoretic paradigm, the informational nature of consciousness is uncovered. This gives rise to the very first formal description of consciousness. In attempts to bridge the chasm between the objective and subjective, scientists and philosophers have opened up to the unspeakable. The nature of consciousness, as has been...