Oxford Handbooks Online
April 5, 2018
Zachary C. Irving, Evan Thompson
This chapter provides an introduction to the philosophy of mind-wandering. It begins with a philosophical critique of the standard psychological definitions of mind-wandering as task-unrelated thought or stimulus-independent thought. Although these definitions have helped bring mind-wandering research onto center stage in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, they have substantial limitations....
Oxford Handbooks Online
April 5, 2018
Halvor Eifring
For more than two millennia, contemplative traditions across the Eurasian continent have seen spontaneous thought as a distraction that binds the devout to the phenomenal world, clogs the gateway to fundamental aspects of reality, and is used by demons to tempt the pious away from their prayer or meditation. At the same time, many traditions have believed the fruits of contemplative practice to...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
April 4, 2018
Yasuo Kinouchi, Kenneth James Mackin
19 citations
In developing a humanoid robot, there are two major objectives. One is developing a physical robot having body, hands, and feet resembling those of human beings and being able to similarly control them. The other is to develop a control system that works similarly to our brain, to feel, think, act, and learn like ours. In this article, an architecture of a control system with a brain-oriented...
Scientific Reports
April 3, 2018
Lieneke Katharina Janssen, Iris Duif, Ilke van Loon et al.
10 citations
Abstract Mindfulness-based interventions are thought to reduce compulsive behavior such as overeating by promoting behavioral flexibility. Here the main aim was to provide support for mindfulness-mediated improvements in reversal learning, a direct measure of behavioral flexibility. We investigated whether an 8-week mindful eating intervention improved outcome-based reversal learning relative...
Australasian Philosophical Review
April 3, 2018
David Macarthur
2 citations
Shaun Gallagher’s [2019] ‘Rethinking Nature’ is an attempt to make conceptual space for the relevance of the phenomenological tradition of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, etc., to cognitive scientific explanation within an embodied enactivist approach to cognition. Since cognitive science currently presupposes orthodox scientific naturalism—for which nature is nothing over and above the objective...
Australasian Philosophical Review
April 3, 2018
María Jimena Clavel Vázquez, Michael A. Wheeler
3 citations
In ‘Rethinking Nature: Phenomenology and a Non-reductionist Cognitive Science’, Gallagher [2019 Gallagher, Shaun 2019. Rethinking Nature: Phenomenology and a Non-reductionist Cognitive Science, Australasian Philosophical Review 2/2: 125–37. [Google Scholar]] sets out to overcome resistance to the idea that phenomenology is relevant to cognitive science. He argues that the relevance in question...
April 3, 2018
Kristoffer Appel, Gordon Pipa, Martin Dresler
During dreaming, we experience a wake-like hallucinatory reality, however with restricted reflective abilities: in the face of a bizarre dream environment, we do not realize that we are actually dreaming. In contrast, during the rare phenomenon of lucid dreaming, the dreamer gains insight into the current state of mind while staying asleep. This metacognitive insight often enables the dreamer...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 2, 2018
Vishnu D Udhan, Sharadchandra Wankhede, Pramod Shinde.
preprint
ABSTRACT: Introduction: Advancement in the world has brought various health concerns in human life. One of the major concerns is psychological stress and therefore mental disorders. Yoga is applied as an alternative approach to overcome the physical & mental issues. Present study was conducted to find the effect of 6 months regular yoga practice (Asanas, Pranayama and Meditation) on Memory,...
English language notes
April 1, 2018
Robert O. Pasnau
I am a historian of philosophy and theology, which is to say that the authors I work on are almost exclusively those who make doctrine. Moreover, a great deal of my work has been focused on Thomas Aquinas, the doctrine maker extraordinaire of the later Middle Ages. From that vantage point, it is interesting to consider the question of whether mysticism, by its nature, must necessarily conflict...
Christian Education Journal Research on Educational Ministry
April 1, 2018
Mark A. Maddix, Glena L. Andrews
3 citations
The field of neuroscience and religion continues to explode as researchers seek to understand religious experiences in the brain. Studies in religious experience, called neurotheology, attempt to draw conclusions about the truth of these religious experiences from the study of biological brain events. Given the substantial research on the science of religion, this article explores the...