Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
October 1, 2009
Kathleen Tusaie, Kelly Edds
17 citations
The practice of mindfulness is increasingly being integrated into Western clinical practice within the context of psychotherapy and stress management. Although it is based in ancient Buddhist philosophy, there remains confusion about the definition, antecedents, processes, and outcomes of mindfulness practice. This article reviews the literature on mindfulness, with a focus upon a clearer...
Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
September 24, 2009
Aditya Malik
3 citations
One of the important and wide-spread ways in which divinity is manifested in South Asia is through the enactment of religious rituals described in schol- arly studies as inducing ‘possession’ through deities who then speak through the medium of ‘possessed’ devotees. My intention in this paper is to begin to create a shift in scholarly discourse that describes religious rituals that are...
Evolution Education and Outreach
September 15, 2009
Crystal L’Hôte
5 citations
Evolutionary theory has an unexpected application in philosophy of mind, where it is used by the so-called biosemantic program—also called the teleosemantic program—to account for the representational capacities of neural states and processes in a way that conforms to an overarching scientific naturalism. Biosemantic theories account for the representational capacities of neural states and...
Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio
September 10, 2009
Andrea Flumini
3 citations
In this article I propose to near a philosophical approach focused on the objective aspects of language to one based on the biologically derived epistemology drawn by the Neurosciences. This is made through the genetic/genealogic investigation of speech pursued by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. His phenomenology has re-introduced the body into the contemporary philosophical discourse, assuming it as...
Consciousness and Cognition
September 10, 2009
Kelly Bulkeley
This paper systematizes the word search potential of DreamBank.net (Domhoff & Schneider, 2008a, 2008b) by formulating and testing a set of word strings that can be used as default analytic categories in future investigations. The word strings are applied to the 981 dream reports of college students gathered by Hall and Van de Castle (1966) and the 136 dream reports of an 80-year old male...
Consciousness and Cognition
September 8, 2009
Anthony G. Hudetz
Information processing that subserves conscious cognitive functions is thought to involve recurrent signaling through feedforward and feedback loops among hierarchically arranged functional regions of the cerebral cortex. In the current issue of Consciousness and Cognition, Lee et al. report that loss of consciousness, as produced by a bolus injection of the general anesthetic propofol to human...
Trends in Neurosciences
September 1, 2009
David B. Edelman, Anil K. Seth
Despite anecdotal evidence suggesting conscious states in a variety of non-human animals, no systematic neuroscientific investigation of animal consciousness has yet been undertaken. We set forth a framework for such an investigation that incorporates integration of data from neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and behavioral studies, uses evidence from humans as a benchmark, and recognizes the...
Consciousness and Cognition
September 2009
Cyriel M A Pennartz
A key question in studying consciousness is how neural operations in the brain can identify streams of sensory input as belonging to distinct modalities, which contributes to the representation of qualitatively different experiences. The basis for identification of modalities is proposed to be constituted by self-organized comparative operations across a network of unimodal and multimodal...
NeuroQuantology
September 1, 2009
Rachel P. Wurzman, James Giordano
6 citations
Generally, attempts to avoid Cartesian dualism relating brain and mind arguably lead to epiphenomenalism or strict materialism, in part because the problem is that these explanations have predominantly focused upon the efficient causal relationship between the physical and the phenomenal. Elucidating the efficient cause of consciousness is the essence of what Chalmers (1995) referred to as...
Revista de Neurología
September 1, 2009
[Psychobiology of consciousness: concepts, hypotheses and clinical and experimental observations].