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December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the brain and nervous system. It is a large field and immediately splits into four subfields. Neuroanatomy is the scientific study of the form and structure of the brain and nervous system. Neurophysiology is the scientific study of the physical and biochemical processes of the brain and nervous system. Neuropsychology is the scientific study of the...
Pragmatics & Cognition December 31, 2010 Shaun Gallagher
I review the problem of how to define consciousness. I suggest that rather than continuing that debate, we should turn to phenomenological description of experience to discover the common aspects of consciousness. In this way we can say that consciousness is characterized by intentionality, phenomenality, and non-reflective self-awareness. I explore this last characteristic in detail and I...
December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon
The previous chapters show that there are systematic correlations between conscious processes, events, states and properties and neural events, states, processes and properties and that these correlations are to varying degrees localized to particular cortical regions. The ever-growing mountains of evidence for such localized systematic covariations are grist for the reductionist's mill,...
December 31, 2010 Rex Welshon 4 citations
Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque and strange. This introduction to the problems posed by consciousness discusses the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of mind of recent years and presents an up to date...
O Mundo da Saúde December 30, 2010 Manoel José Pereira Simão 7 citations
Transpersonal Psychology has been considered the fourth force in psychology, after behaviorism, psychoanalysis and thehumanist trend. It studies the states of consciousness and its application in health and education, and it understands humans as bio--psycho-social-spiritual beings. It integrates in practice many consecrated exercises used in Western and Eastern psychology. In the healthfield...
arXiv Preprint Archive December 27, 2010 Andre Nathan, Valmir C. Barbosa preprint
An information-theoretic framework known as integrated information theory (IIT) has been introduced recently for the study of the emergence of consciousness in the brain [D. Balduzzi and G. Tononi, PLoS Comput. Biol. 4, e1000091 (2008)]. IIT purports that this phenomenon is to be equated with the generation of information by the brain surpassing the information which the brain's constituents...
Oxford University Press eBooks December 3, 2010 Andrea Knutson
Chapter 4 examines the impact that Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and its demonstration of probabilistic thinking had on William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience (Varieties) and demonstrates the central role the conversion dynamic plays in James’s work, focusing on his development of a psychology of religious experience in the Varieties and of pragmatism as a philosophy...
Revista gaucha de enfermagem December 2010 Edite Lago da Silva Sena, Lucia Hisako Takase Gonçalves, Marcos José Müller Granzotto et al.
The strategy presented in this paper, called Analytics of ambiguity, is connected to the necessity of understanding findings in researches based on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. It was developed through a study of descriptions of life experiences from ten family members, members of a Mutual Help Group for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients, conducted at a university in Florianopolis, Santa...
Consciousness and Cognition December 2010 Charles Lenay, Pierre Steiner
This paper tackles the problem of the nature of the space of perception. Based both on philosophical arguments and on results obtained from original experimental situations, it attempts to show how space is constituted concretely, before any distinction between the "inner" and the "outer" can be made. It thus sheds light on the presuppositions of the well-known debate between internalism and...
Progress in Neurobiology December 2010 Georg Northoff, Niall W. Duncan, Dave J Hayes
Despite all the recent progress in neuroscience, we still do not understand the basic principles according to which the brain functions. This may be due, at least in part, to our lack of knowledge how the brain's intrinsic activity, the brain's input, impacts stimulus-induced changes in the brain. We here discuss the neuronal, experimental and methodological relevance of the brain's resting...