Journal of Southern African Studies
March 1, 2011
Anne Solomon
12 citations
The oral narratives and personal accounts given by the /Xam of the northern Cape, and recorded by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, have played a key role in interpretations of rock art and of southern San culture, recent and ancient, generally. However, the validity of the account that relates the /Xam texts to supposed shamanic practices is an issue requiring attention. The texts are open to...
Attachment & human development
March 1, 2011
Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R Shaver, Neta Avihou-Kanza
Self-reported individual differences in attachment insecurities (anxiety and avoidance) are sometimes assumed to tap only conscious mental processes, although many studies have found correlations between such measures and responses to the Thematic Apperception Test, the Rorschach Inkblot Test, and diverse laboratory measures of unconscious mental processes. Dreams offer another route into the...
Brain and Cognition
March 2011
Petr Bob, Miroslav Světlák
Recent findings indicate that neural mechanisms of consciousness are related to integration of distributed neural assemblies. This neural integration is particularly vulnerable to past stressful experiences that can lead to disintegration and dissociation of consciousness. These findings suggest that dissociation could be described as a level of neural disintegration reflecting a number of...
Cognitive Computation
March 1, 2011
K. Neokleous, M. Avraamides, Costas Neocleous et al.
The present study aimed at investigating the possible connection between conscious awareness and attention through the implementation of a neurocomputational model of visual selective attention. The development of the model was based on recent neurophysiological findings that document the synchronization of neural activity in cortical areas of the brain and the presence of competitive...
Brain and Cognition
March 2011
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts
Based on the theoretical analysis of self-consciousness concepts, we hypothesized that the spatio-temporal pattern of functional connectivity within the default-mode network (DMN) should persist unchanged across a variety of different cognitive tasks or acts, thus being task-unrelated. This supposition is in contrast with current understanding that DMN activated when the subjects are resting...
Adult Learning
March 1, 2011
Gene Crumley, Howard G. Schutz
16 citations
The adult learner is typically a motivated student who comes to class prepared to pay attention (Ross-Gordon, 2003). They also come with cognitive and emotional stimuli not related to the course's content, which can be distracting especially at the start of a class or following a break (James, 1892; McDermott, 1977). Ways of dealing with the problem of start-of-class attention, and for that...
Configurations
March 1, 2011
Jess Keiser
Reviewed by: Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson Jess Keiser (bio) Jonathan Kramnick, Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010, 320 pp. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Jonathan Kramnick’s Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson is a nuanced and wide-ranging account of consciousness, materialism, and agency in eighteenth-century...
Culture, medicine and psychiatry
March 2011
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G Lacy, H J Francois Dengah et al.
Videogame players commonly report reaching deeply "immersive" states of consciousness, in some cases growing to feel like they actually are their characters and really in the game, with such fantastic characters and places potentially only loosely connected to offline selves and realities. In the current investigation, we use interview and survey data to examine the effects of such...
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
March 2011
Kirstin Daalman, Marco P Boks, Kelly Diederen et al.
Whereas auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are most characteristic of schizophrenia, their presence has frequently been described in a continuum, ranging from severely psychotic patients to schizotypal personality disorder patients to otherwise healthy participants. It remains unclear whether AVHs at the outer borders of this spectrum are indeed the same phenomenon. Furthermore, specific...
British Journal of Occupational Therapy
March 1, 2011
Holly Hawtin, Cath Sullivan
27 citations
Introduction: This study examined the experiences of mindfulness training for five adults living with rheumatic disease. Method: Focus group data were used to explore the experience and impact of mindfulness training in participants aged between 46 and 69 years diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia or rheumatoid arthritis. All participants had completed an 8-week Mindfulness-Based...