Current Psychiatry Reports
January 25, 2018
Kelsey T. Laird, Pattharee Paholpak, Michael Roman et al.
A growing body of research supports the use of mind-body therapies (MBTs) as minimally invasive and effective approaches for the management of late-life mood and cognitive disorders. Recent randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses indicate that MBTs are effective for enhancing well-being, mood, sleep, and cognition in older adults. Evidence suggests that mindful movement (e.g., yoga, tai...
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
January 25, 2018
Hugh Rabagliati, Alexander Robertson, David Podhortzer Carmel
62 citations
Is consciousness required for high level cognitive processes, or can the unconscious mind perform tasks that are as complex and difficult as, for example, understanding a sentence? Recent work has argued that, yes, the unconscious mind can: Sklar et al. (2012) found that sentences, masked from consciousness using the technique of continuous flash suppression (CFS), broke into awareness more...
Journal of Visualized Experiments
January 22, 2018
Robert Carter, Kirtigandha Salwe Carter, John Holliday et al.
A pragmatic breath-based intervention to benefit human performance and stress management is timely and valuable to individuals seeking holistic approaches for emotional regulation and optimizing compensatory reserve mechanisms. This protocol is designed to not only teach mind-body awareness but also to provide feedback utilizing physiological data and survey results. The primary findings of...
January 19, 2018
Bernard Andrieu, Olivier Sirost
In Chapter 1 , Bernard Andrieu and Olivier Sirost open this volume by explaining the approach of body ecology to our understanding of new conceptions of leisure. The authors have based their work on philosophies of awakening and consciousness. These immersers into consciousness favour transcendental meditation and reflexivity in action through physical practices of consciousness. Although we...
January 19, 2018
Bernard Andrieu, Olivier Sirost
5 citations
Body ecology is based on philosophies of awakening and consciousness. These immersers into consciousness favour transcendental meditation and reflexivity in action through physical practices of consciousness. Although we might distinguish these techniques, the holistic context of each can cause confusion because the action on one part of the body would immediately be related to that of other...
Oxford Scholarship Online
January 18, 2018
Dan Zahavi
Husserl’s turn from a descriptive phenomenology to a transcendental phenomenology is linked to his methodological employment of the reduction and the epoché. But how should one interpret these notions? Are they crucial to phenomenology, do they enable phenomenology to become metaphysically committed, or are they tools that reveal Husserl’s commitment to a form of methodological solipsism?...
Psychology Press eBooks
January 17, 2018
Henry Pierce Stapp
5 citations
Physical scientists were driven during the late twenties to abandon a fundamental idea that had reigned since the time of Issac Newton. To obtain a rationally coherent and practically useful theory of all physical phenomena they turned to a pragmatic approach. The core idea was that the basic physical theory was no longer directly about a physical world that was conceived to exists apart from...
Routledge eBooks
January 12, 2018
Fraser Watts
This chapter considers what is meant by consciousness, distinguishing the various things that are meant by the term and looking at changing assumptions about the relationship between mind and brain. It examines the critique of religion mounted by Francis Crick on the basis of the scientific study of consciousness. The chapter concerns the theological insight that God can be understood in some...
Neuroimage
January 12, 2018
Charlotte Murphy, Elizabeth Jefferies, Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer et al.
288 citations
The default mode network supports a variety of mental operations such as semantic processing, episodic memory retrieval, mental time travel and mind-wandering, yet the commonalities between these functions remains unclear. One possibility is that this system supports cognition that is independent of the immediate environment; alternatively or additionally, it might support higher-order...
Global Journal of Health Science
January 7, 2018
L. Lucy H. Field, Stephen David Edwards, David J. Edwards et al.
19 citations
This study investigated biofeedback using heart rate variability (HRV) and psychometric measures. An original, mixed, quantitative and qualitative, within subjects, pre-test and post-test design was employed to evaluate the influence of a HeartMath training programme on measures of HRV, sense of coherence, mindfulness and relaxation in a convenience sample of 13 participants with age range...