Mind-wandering: phenomenology and function as assessed with a novel experience sampling method.
Acta Psychologica February 23, 2011
Mind-wandering: phenomenology and function as assessed with a novel experience sampling method.
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Dopaminergic stimulation enhances confidence and accuracy in seeing rapidly presented words
Journal of Vision February 23, 2011 Hans C Lou, Joshua Skewes, Kristine Rømer Thomsen et al. 83 citations
Liberal acceptance, overconfidence, and increased activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine have been proposed to account for abnormal sensory experiences, for instance, hallucinations in schizophrenia. In normal subjects, increased sensory experience in Yoga Nidra meditation is linked to striatal dopamine release. We therefore hypothesize that the neurotransmitter dopamine may function as a...
Matte Blanco’s thought and epistemological pluralism in psychoanalysis
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis February 21, 2011 Michel Sanchez‐Cardenas 15 citations
It can be seen that, although psychoanalytic pluralism is widespread, there is still a spirit of intolerance among the different theoretical schools. Matte Blanco's work allows us to think about these questions in a fresh way. Direct psychic experience, felt to be an indivisible whole, is characterized by the symmetrical mode (close to the unconscious) and projects itself in a multiple and...
Between Sleep and Waking: Montaigne, Keats and Proust
Anthem Press eBooks February 15, 2011 Jeremy F. Lane 2 citations
This brief essay emerges from an ongoing study of relations between imaginative writing and liminal states or movements of consciousness, especially those on the threshold between waking and sleep, or between consciousness and its loss or inhibition. In the examples considered here, such writing is meditative and self-reflective, and brings the first person into the centre of its concern. Its...
Neural Correlates of Ongoing Conscious Experience: Both Task-Unrelatedness and Stimulus-Independence Are Related to Default Network Activity
PLoS One February 14, 2011 David Stawarczyk, Steve Majerus, Pierre Maquet et al. 315 citations
The default mode network (DMN) is a set of brain regions that consistently shows higher activity at rest compared to tasks requiring sustained focused attention toward externally presented stimuli. The cognitive processes that the DMN possibly underlies remain a matter of debate. It has alternately been proposed that DMN activity reflects unfocused attention toward external stimuli or the...
Integrated Inquiry: Mystical Intuition and Research1
The Open Information Science Journal February 8, 2011 T. Anthony Marcus 3 citations
The purpose of this paper is to initiate a broader dialogue on the use of integrated intelligence (or INI) in formal research.The application of INI in research is referred to as integrated inquiry.The idea of integrated intelligence, and its specific applications, can be viewed as genuine cognitive processes, or for the more skeptical, as provocations to inspire the researcher toward greater...
Emotions outside the box—the new phenomenology of feeling and corporeality
February 8, 2011 H. Schmitz, R. O. Müllan, J. Slaby
The following text is the first ever translation into English of a writing by German phenomenologist Hermann Schmitz (*1928). In it, Schmitz outlines and defends a non-mentalistic view of emotions as phenomena in interpersonal space in conjunction with a theory of the felt body’s constitutive involvement in human experience. In the first part of the text, Schmitz gives an overview covering some...
Understanding Spiritual Awareness in Terms of Anomalous Information Access
The Open Information Science Journal February 8, 2011 Rousseau David 4 citations
In this paper I identify a link between the problem of explaining anomalous access to information ('psi' or 'psychic ability') and the problem of giving an account of the nature of consciousness ('the mind-body problem'). I argue that progress with understanding psi requires selecting a suitable ontological model for dealing with the mind-body problem. I review alternatives and argue, on...
Three Magical Visionaries
Oxford University Press eBooks February 2, 2011 Nevill Drury
Abstract This chapter profiles three notable twentieth-century occultists—Dion Fortune, Austin Osman Spare, and Rosaleen Norton. All three can be regarded as key bridging figures linking earlier generations of magical practitioners with the contemporary neopagan movement. Dion Fortune (1890–1946) studied psychoanalysis at the University of London. Through her friend Maiya Curtis-Webb, Violet...
The Argument from Consciousness Revisited
Oxford University Press eBooks February 1, 2011 Kevin Kimble, Timothy O'Connor 8 citations
The argument from consciousness maintains that correlations between brain states and conscious states of persons require explanation but cannot be given an adequate scientific explanation. The chapter then argues that the best explanation of these correlations is that they are the result of the work of a purposeful supernatural agent. The aim is two-fold. First, the chapter considers and rebuts...