Consciousness and Cognition
June 1, 1999
J Smythies
29 citations
This paper concentrates on the basic properties of "consciousness" that temporal coding is postulated to relate to. A description of phenomenal consciousness based on what introspection tells us about its contents is offered. This includes a consideration of the effect of various brain lesions that result in cortical blindness, apperceptive and associative agnosia, and blindsight, together with...
Anthropology of Consciousness
June 1, 1999
Grant J. Rich
6 citations
This is an interview with Erika Bourguignon, who has been a presence in the anthropology of consciousness for decades. Her work has examined possession, altered states of consciousness, religion, psychological anthropology, and shamanism. Her own fieldwork in Haiti has been augmented by book‐length comparative work with Lenora Greenbaum as well. In a 1996 article in Ethos, Melford Spiro notes...
Attachment & human development
April 1999
E Hesse, M H Van Ijzendoorn
Unresolved/disorganized (U) states of mind are identified in the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) through brief lapses in the monitoring of reasoning or discourse during the discussion of potentially traumatic experiences such as loss or abuse. These lapses have been hypothesized to indicate temporary alterations in normal states of consciousness. In parents, U attachment status predicts a...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
April 1, 1999
Kazuki Iwata, Mitsuaki Yamamoto, Mitsuyuki Nakao et al.
We investigated the relationship between subjective experiences and polysomnographic observations under sensory deprivation (SD). The results can be divided into two types: (i) visual images were perceived frequently, accompanied by alpha waves or theta waves in electroencephalogram and frequent rapid eye movements (REM); (ii) the subjects fell in deep sleep without perception of visual images....
Shofar
March 1, 1999
Cynthia Ann Humes
Topical Book Reviews III together with an index that runs to over a hundred. pages, makes it easy to locate particular topics and to use the book for one's own purposes. And that is perhaps the role that it will significantly play in future scholarship: no one who writes on the scriptural forms of Hinduism or Judaism, or on "scripture" as a genus of religious expression, or on the theory of...
Contagion Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture
March 1, 1999
Henri Grivois
7 citations
ADOLESCENCE, INDIFFERENTIATION, AND THE ONSET OF PSYCHOSIS Henri Grivois Hôtel-Dieu, Paris The onset of psychosis happens, by definition, only once. The first psychotic episode is unforeseeable and risks being overlooked. Left to itself its future is uncertain, and the prognosis is potentially unfavorable. The variety of its manifestations as well as its thymic and cognitive instability...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 1999
Lain Edgar
This paper intends to explore the topic of consciousness in relation to the domain of the contemporary dream, its narration and interpretation. "Consciousness" involves the experience and interplay of dream, fantasy and "reality." Hence an ethnography of the dreaming subject involves several interlinked domains: the cultural construction of dream symbolism, dream narration, and dream...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
February 1, 1999
Bruce Mangan
O'Brien & Opie's (O&O's) theory demands a view of unconscious processing that is incompatible with virtually all current PDP models of neural activity. Relative to the alternatives, the theory is closer to an AI than a parallel distributed processing (PDP) perspective, and its treatment of phenomenology is ad hoc. It raises at least one important question: Could features of network relaxation...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
February 1, 1999
G O'Brien, J Opie
When cognitive scientists apply computational theory to the problem of phenomenal consciousness, as many have been doing recently, there are two fundamentally distinct approaches available. Consciousness is to be explained either in terms of the nature of the representational vehicles the brain deploys or in terms of the computational processes defined over these vehicles. We call versions of...
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
January 1999
Pierre Rainville, Robert K Hofbauer, T Paus et al.
The neural mechanisms underlying hypnotic states and responses to hypnotic suggestions remain largely unknown and, to date, have been studied only with indirect methods. Here, the effects of hypnosis and suggestions to alter pain perception were investigated in hypnotizable subjects by using positron emission tomography (PET) measures of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and...