History of the Human Sciences
2010
Nicolas Langlitz
32 citations
The elimination of subjectivity through brain research and the replacement of so-called "folk psychology" by a neuroscientifically enlightened worldview and self-conception has been both hoped for and feared. But this cultural revolution is still pending. Based on nine months of fieldwork on the revival of hallucinogen research since the "Decade of the Brain," this paper examines how subjective...
History of the Human Sciences
2010
Eugene Taylor
10 citations
Throughout his career, William James defended personal consciousness. In his "Principles of Psychology" (1890), he declared that psychology is the scientific study of states of consciousness as such and that he intended to presume from the outset that the thinker was the thought. But while writing it, he had been investigating a dynamic psychology of the subconscious, which found a major place...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Valdas Noreika, Jennifer Windt, Bigna Lenggenhager et al.
54 citations
The neural mechanisms underlying lucid dreaming have recently been investigated using brain imaging techniques such as electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging, which produce insightful but merely correlative results. We propose that research on the neurophysiology of lucid dreaming, for instance concerning the exact relationship between the dorsolateral prefrontal...
December 31, 2009
Johannes L. Brandl
The fact that we have thoughts about things is a salient feature of our mental life. In phenomenology this feature goes by the name intentionality, while cognitive psychologists prefer to speak of the representational power of the mind. Where does this power come from? It is generally agreed today that one attempt at answering this question has thoroughly failed. The power of mental...
Neuroimage
December 29, 2009
Leen Van Doren, Patrick Dupont, Sophie De Grauwe et al.
Previous studies using explicit semantic tasks, such as category or similarity judgments, have revealed considerable neuroanatomical overlap between processing of the meaning of words and pictures. This result may have been influenced by the semantic executive control required by such tasks. We examined the degree of overlap while minimizing semantic executive demands. In a first fMRI...
Revista da Biologia
December 17, 2009
Camila Gomes Victorino
Neurophilosophy, allied to other sciences, like Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, triesto unravel the consciousness intelligence mysteries. In spite of the Neurophilosophy development, a MindPhilosophy which essays to conform to the cognitive science observed-events has never had the chance tobe formulated, because there is an enormous disagree concerning the mental states origins....
Current Biology
December 15, 2009
Vincent Walsh
Our subjective experience of the order in which things happens feels secure to us: C follows B follows A. This impression of order is simply that, an impression. A recent study shows that our impressions can sometimes be illusory.
Journal of Medical Case Reports
December 10, 2009
Amr A Guenedi, Ala'Alddin Al Hussaini, Yousif A Obeid et al.
9 citations
The view that spirits may possess humans is found in 90% of the world population, including Arab/Islamic societies. Despite the association between possessive states and various neurological and psychiatric disorders, the available literature has yet to correlate possessive states with functional brain imaging modalities such as single-photon-emission computed tomography. This paper describes...
Schizophrenia Bulletin
December 4, 2009
A. L. Mishara
Klaus Conrad's major contribution to the phenomenology of psychosis focused on the patient's experiences during the prodromal and early psychotic phases of schizophrenia. The literature in English concerning his work is sparse, in part because Conrad's work contains complex concepts that lose much in translation. This communication attempts to clarify Conrad's thought, especially as it pertains...
December 2, 2009
L. Finlay
Phenomenological researchers generally agree that our central concern is to return to embodied, experiential meanings aiming for a fresh, complex, rich description of a phenomenon as it is concretely lived. Yet debates abound when it comes to deciding how best to carry out this phenomenological research in practice. Confusion about how to conduct appropriate phenomenological research makes our...