Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
August 19, 2010
Marie-Noëlle Metz-Lutz, Yannick Bressan, Nathalie Heider et al.
Live theater is typically designed to alter the state of mind of the audience. Indeed, the perceptual inputs issuing from a live theatrical performance are intended to represent something else, and the actions, emphasized by the writing and staging, are the key prompting the adhesion of viewers to fiction, i.e., their belief that it is real. This phenomenon raises the issue of the cognitive...
Journal of Sleep Research
August 17, 2010
Stefan Fischer, Susanne Diekelmann, Jan Born
The concept of 'repression' dates back to Freud, assuming that undesirable memories can become suppressed and that dreams ease repression by permitting these memories to be reinstated. Here, we followed this idea adopting the 'directed forgetting' approach of experimental psychology. The voluntary suppression of unwanted memories results in impaired later retrieval. Because sleep is known to...
The MIT Press eBooks
August 13, 2010
Mark Rowlands
This chapter examines the flaws of the thesis of the amalgamated mind and explains that, although the combining theses for the amalgamated mind are both sound when approached individually, they are mutually incompatible and cannot be combined without encountering problems. “The amalgamated mind” is a combination of the theses of the embodied mind and the extended mind. In tackling the...
August 13, 2010
Mark Rowlands
An investigation into the conceptual foundations of a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate all cognition "in the head." There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
August 5, 2010
Joanna Cook
We have seen in the foregoing that while monastic identity and ascetic practices such as vipassanā meditation have historically been the preserve of monks, requiring full ordination and celibacy, this is not the case in contemporary Thailand. Furthermore, ‘monastic’ and ‘lay’ have never been uncomplicated or mutually exclusive categories in the Thai context. I have argued that the involvement...
Ethos
August 4, 2010
Rebecca A. Seligman
74 citations
AbstractDiscontinuities in the experience of self are distressing especially when they are unexpected, unsanctioned, and resist attribution. Such discontinuities are often a product of psychosocial and physical suffering. In this article I present a model of self that incorporates bodily experience as a fundamental building block and key source of discontinuity for a sense of self. Analysis of...
The Philosophical Quarterly
August 3, 2010
Richard Gray, Alessandra Tanesini
7 citations
Traditional accounts of perception endorse an input–output model: perception is the input from world to mind and action is the output from mind to world. In contrast, enactive accounts propose action to be constitutive of perception. We focus on Noë's sensorimotor version of enactivism, with the aim of clarifying the proper limits of enactivism more generally. Having explained Noë's particular...
August 1, 2010
Stanislav Grof, Christina Grof, Jack Kornfield
You hold in your hands a visionary book, one that offers a new understanding of healing, mental health, and human potential, along with powerful techniques to bring about these transformations.Developing such an integrated understanding, which combines science, experience, and spirit is critical for the twenty-fi rst century.The prevailing materialistic culture has created a divided world where...
Analysis
July 30, 2010
John Preston
Robert Rupert’s book is a thorough examination of a family of views of cognition that have emerged from recent work in what is sometimes called ‘situated’ cognitive science, that is, the kind of cognitive science that tries to take seriously the thought that human cognition is an achievement of creatures with a certain kind of body, which exist in relationships to their physical environment....
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
July 30, 2010
Nancy Nyquist Potter
3 citations
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review covers recent books and articles on the perennial problem of how mind and brain work together to produce psychiatric symptoms. RECENT FINDINGS: Discussed in this article are research on predictors of anxiety disorders, evidence relating to agency and sense of self-ownership, the extended mind hypothesis, and brain differences in genders of moral sensitivity....