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...
Configurations
March 1, 2011
Derek Risse
Reviewed by: Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere Derek Risse (bio) Richard M. Doyle, Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011, 368 pp. $70.00 cloth, 35.00 paper. Bringing together discourses of rhetoric, information science, and the life sciences, the final text in Richard Doyle’s “Transhuman...
Toronto Journal of Theology
March 1, 2011
Dietmar Neufeld
Reviewed by: Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle’s Life and Thought Dietmar Neufeld Colleen Shantz . Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle’s Life and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. v + 267. Cloth, US$64.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86610-1. In a provocative, long-overdue correction of a primarily cognicentric approach to Paul, Shantz charts a finely...
Spiritus
March 1, 2011
Ann Gleig
Reviewed by: The Participatory Turn: Thinking Beyond the Philosophies of Consciousness and Constructivism in the Study of Religion Ann Gleig (bio) The Participatory Turn: Thinking Beyond the Philosophies of Consciousness and Constructivism in the Study of Religion. Edited by Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. 396 pp. $34.95 If we recognize the radically creative...