Quantifying human subjective experience and social interaction using the eXperience Induction Machine.
Brain Research Bulletin November 26, 2010
Quantifying human subjective experience and social interaction using the eXperience Induction Machine.
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Consciousness of the first order in blindsight.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences November 15, 2010 Arash Sahraie, Paul B Hibbard, Ceri T Trevethan et al.
At suprathreshold levels, detection and awareness of visual stimuli are typically synonymous in nonclinical populations. But following postgeniculate lesions, some patients may perform above chance in forced-choice detection paradigms, while reporting not to see the visual events presented within their blind field. This phenomenon, termed "blindsight," is intriguing because it demonstrates a...
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“Involving Interface”: An Extended Mind Theoretical Approach to Roboethics
Accountability in research November 9, 2010 Miranda Anderson, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Tamami Fukushi 5 citations
In 2008 the authors held "Involving Interface," a lively interdisciplinary event focusing on issues of biological, sociocultural, and technological interfacing (see Acknowledgments). Inspired by discussions at this event, in this article, we further discuss the value of input from neuroscience for developing robots and machine interfaces, and the value of philosophy, the humanities, and the...
Brain networks maintain a scale-free organization across consciousness, anesthesia, and recovery: evidence for adaptive reconfiguration.
Anesthesiology November 1, 2010 UnCheol Lee, Gabjin Oh, Seunghwan Kim et al.
Background: Loss of consciousness is an essential feature of general anesthesia. Although alterations of neural networks during anesthesia have been identified in the spatial domain, there has been relatively little study of temporal organization. Methods: Ten healthy male volunteers were anesthetized with an induction dose of propofol on two separate occasions. The duration of network...
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The Role of Trance in the Creation of Rock Art Images
Rock Art Research November 1, 2010 Margaret Bullen 1 citation
The ‘Three Stages of Trance’ has become a leitmotif in discussions on the origin of rock art imagery. Here I challenge the validity of this paradigm including the algorithm that has developed whereby geometric motifs equate to entoptic imagery that equates to first stage of trance and therefore indicates shamanism. New approaches to the study of consciousness and brain activity are changing...
Phenomenal consciousness and the “sufficiency” claim
October 31, 2010 Dimitris Platchias
EXPERIENCE AND CONTEMPORARY NEUROSCIENCE Once upon a time in philosophy, it was thought that one's knowledge of one's own current mental states is infallible. Thoughts, and mental states in general, were thought to be transparent to the thinker, that is, nothing can be in my mind without my knowing that it is there, whereas, say, my body is not transparent to me in the same sense. It was held...
Writing about the spiritual side of grieving
TEXT October 30, 2010 Sandra R. Arnold
The Collins Dictionary defines ‘spirit’ as ‘the force or principle of life that animates the body of living things’. ‘Spiritus’ is the Latin word for spirit and also means breath. A bereaved parent in Finkbeiner’s study (1998: 238) says, ‘If children are part of parents they are not arms or legs, but bones andbreath.’ Rudolph Steiner (1973) believed that during the first seven years of life, a...
New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness
Advances in Consciousness Research October 28, 2010
A fascinating cornucopia of new ideas, based on fundamentals of neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry and therapy, this book extends boundaries of current concepts of consciousness. Its eclectic mix will simulate and challenge not only neuroscientists and psychologists but entice others interested in exploring consciousness. Contributions from top researchers in consciousness and related fields...
Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory
Advances in Consciousness Research October 28, 2010 Signy Sheldon, Morris Moscovitch
A commonly held assumption is that consciousness is a defining feature that distinguishes explicit memory (with conscious awareness) from implicit memory (without conscious awareness). Although early studies support this notion, recent evidence suggests that conscious and non-conscious memory systems may share crucial underlying processes. Here, we propose that one locus of interaction between...
Operating characteristics and awareness
Advances in Consciousness Research October 28, 2010 Colin W.G. Clifford, Justin A. Harris, Ehsan Arabzadeh
Although a large proportion of the human brain is dedicated to processing incoming sensory information, much of this processing is not accessible to consciousness. In an effort to understand what differentiates conscious from unconscious processing, we are concerned here with methodological issues in exploring the limits of unconscious processing. We first consider a conscious perceptual...