The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review
2011
Adam Wood
7 citations
1 Republic 436a (trans. G.M.A. Grube, rev. C.D.C. Reeve, in Plato: Complete Works, ed. John M. Collins [Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997], 1067). 2 I will use the term "faculty" (of the soul) interchangeably with the terms "capacity" and "ability," and as synonymous with what the medievals usually called potentiae animae, although, as we'll see below, the medieval term harbored some crucial...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2011
Robert Mays, Suzanne Mays
1 citation
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing near death experiences and EEG surges at the end of life, referencing a report by Lakhmir Chawla.
Problemos
2011
Mindaugas Briedis
Nors fenomenologinė filosofija jau kurį laiką daro įtaką psichoterapeutų darbo metodams, galima teigti, kad pastarieji naudojasi egzistencialistinėmis fenomenologijos traktuotėmis, o štai pirminis, dar Edmundo Husserlio inicijuotas projektas išleidžiamas iš akių. Straipsnyje kaip tik ir užsibrėžiama grįžti prie pastarojo fenomenologijos supratimo, nagrinėjant metodologines psichologijos...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
January 2011
Fanny Nusbaum, Jérôme Redouté, Didier Le Bars et al.
This study aimed to characterize the neural networks involved in patients with chronic low-back pain during hypnoanalgesia. PET was performed in 2 states of consciousness, normal alertness and hypnosis. Two groups of patients received direct or indirect analgesic suggestion. The normal alertness state showed activations in a cognitive-sensory pain modulation network, including frontotemporal...
Behavioural Neurology
2011
Tim Bayne
10 citations
This paper examines three respects in which the study of epileptic absence seizures promises to inform our understanding of consciousness. Firstly, it has the potential to bear on debates concerning the behavioural and cognitive functions associated with consciousness. Secondly, it has the potential to illuminate the relationship between background states (or ‘levels’) of consciousness and the...
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
2011
Bruno G Breitmeyer, Evelina Tapia
11 citations
Developments in visual neuroscience and neural-network modeling indicate the existence of separate pathways for the processing of form and surface attributes of a visual object. In line with prior theoretical proposals, it is assumed that the processing of form can be explicit or conscious only as or after the surface property such as color is filled in. In conjunction with extant...
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
2011
Marc Ebner, Stuart Hameroff
14 citations
Cognitive brain functions, for example, sensory perception, motor control and learning, are understood as computation by axonal-dendritic chemical synapses in networks of integrate-and-fire neurons. Cognitive brain functions may occur either consciously or nonconsciously (on "autopilot"). Conscious cognition is marked by gamma synchrony EEG, mediated largely by dendritic-dendritic gap...
Behavioural Neurology
2011
Andrea E. Cavanna, Fizzah Ali
24 citations
Alterations in consciousness are central to epileptic manifestations, and involve changes in both the level of awareness and subjective content of consciousness. Generalised seizures are characterised by minimal responsiveness and subjective experience whereas simple and complex partial seizures demonstrate more selective disturbances. Despite variations in ictal origin, behaviour and...
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
2011
Ronald J Pekala
7 citations
Wagstaff (2010) reviews and comments on two recent papers by Pekala et al. (2010a, 2010b), concluding that "many of the problems relating to the definition and conceptualization of terms associated with hypnosis... may stem from insufficient attention to the role of suggestion and expectancies in producing hypnotic phenomena, and an over-reliance on the role of the procedures and mechanics of...
Frontiers in Psychology
2011
Talis Bachmann
35 citations
Equivalence of attention and consciousness is disputed and necessity of attentional effects for conscious experience has become questioned. However, the conceptual landscape and interpretations of empirical evidence as related to this issue have remained controversial. Here I present some conceptual distinctions and research strategies potentially useful for moving forward when tackling this...