PLoS One
July 22, 2011
Urte Roeber, Sandra Veser, Erich Schröger et al.
19 citations
During binocular rivalry visual consciousness fluctuates between two dissimilar monocular images. We investigated the role of attention in this phenomenon by comparing event-related potentials (ERPs) when binocular-rivalry stimuli were attended with when they were unattended. Stimuli were dichoptic, orthogonal gratings that yielded binocular rivalry and dioptic, identically oriented gratings...
Axiomathes
July 21, 2011
Janusz Sytnik-Czetwertyński
This work speaks about very special solution of the mind–body problem. This solution based on the so-called Principle of Co - existence stands out as one of the most interesting attempts at solving the mind–body problem. It states that substances can only exert a mutual influence on one another if they have something in common. This does not have to be a common property but rather, a binding...
Schizophrenia Bulletin
July 19, 2011
Josef Parnas
This article traces the fundamental descriptive features of schizophrenia described in the European continental literature form Kraepelin and Bleuler, culminating with the creation of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-8 (1974). There was a consensus among the researchers that the specificity and typicality of schizophrenia was anchored to its "fundamental" clinical core (with...
European Journal of Neurology
July 19, 2011
A.-S. de Weer, M. da Ros, Jacques Berré et al.
15 citations
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To evaluate in disorders of consciousness (DOC) circadian variations in motor patterns and their possible synchronization with physiologically regulated light variations and/or a social environmental factor, i.e. presence and actions of other persons. METHODS: Actimetric and ambient light levels recordings were obtained during 4-9 days in two patients with traumatic...
Nature Precedings
July 18, 2011
Rodrick Wallace
Abstract Once cognition is recognized as having a 'dual' information source, the information theory chain rule implies that isolating coresident information sources from crosstalk requires more metabolic free energy than permitting correlation. This provides conditions for an evolutionary exaptation leading to the rapid, shifting global neural broadcasts of consciousness. The argument is quite...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
July 14, 2011
Edward F Pace-Schott
3 citations
Among sleep stages, awakenings from rapid eye movement (REM) sleep produce the greatest number and reported intensity of dream reports. Dreaming is a conscious state that lacks the insight and cognitive control typical of healthy waking but allows the remarkable emergence of coherent narrative, vivid visual imagery, strong emotion, and sometimes never-before-experienced elements. Similar to...
July 13, 2011
T. Castro, William Barbosa Gomes
The repercussion of the phenomenological movement on the history of psychology can be perceived by persistent attempts to import eidetic phenomenology features in the systematic analysis of empirical events. In this sense, the concept of phenomenological reduction, described by the philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and technically defined for psychological research, was taken as a mean to...
Oxford University Press eBooks
July 7, 2011
Leslie Stevenson
This essay examines various kinds of unity in our experience based on the idea that these forms of unity are produced by mental processes of synthesis. It suggests that Immanuel Kant was asking questions about the relation between preconceptual and conceptual levels of mental functioning that are still of fundamental importance in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. The...
The Humanistic Psychologist
July 1, 2011
Edward Bonner, Harris L. Friedman
186 citations
Awe is a concept central in much of humanistic and transpersonal psychology, but it still lacks a consensual scientific meaning. Consequently, this article conceptually clarifies awe for its further use in scientific research and theory, as well as in applications such as psychotherapy. Previous understandings of awe and its changing meaning are discussed in their historical context. Six...
Psychological Perspectives
July 1, 2011
Lance S. Owens
9 citations
C. G. Jung stated in 1957 that the visionary experiences recorded in The Red Book: Liber Novus were the foundation of his life work: “My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream … the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.” Liber Novus is now historically placed in a hermeneutic relationship with...