Epilepsia
June 1996
K Kanemoto, J Kawasaki, I Kawai
We studied 30 patients with postictal psychosis and compared them with 33 patients with acute interictal psychosis and 25 patients with chronic psychosis. All patients had either complex partial seizures (CPS) or EEG temporal epileptogenic foci. Patients with postictal psychosis had a high incidence of psychic auras and nocturnal secondarily generalized seizures. The most striking feature that...
Philosophy of Science
June 1, 1996
David B Newman
118 citations
Recent work in the Philosophy of Mind has suggested that alternatives to reduction are required in order to explain the relationship between psychology and biology or physics. Emergence has been proposed as one such alternative. In this paper, I propose a precise definition of emergence, and I argue that chaotic systems provide concrete examples of properties that meet this definition. In...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
June 1, 1996
G. Lynn Stephens
2 citations
Commentary on “Free Will in the Light of Neuropsychiatry” G. Lynn Stephens (bio) A necessary condition of our having free will is that we initiate some of our actions by our own will or decision. Spence argues that, in light of certain empirical findings, we can accept that willing causes action, only if we acknowledge that willing is a non-conscious phenomenon. “If the notion of free will is...
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
June 1, 1996
Michael C. McLaughlin
The current discussion in philosophy of mysticism is heading down two divergent lines. Contextualist studies (notably Steven Katz) employ a linguistic model of the epistemic subject. Critics of contextualism (notably Robert Forman) have offered what this study calls a cognitionalist approach which draws attention to the performance of the conscious subject. The two approaches are combined by...
Philosophical Psychology
June 1, 1996
Shaun Gallagher, Andrew N. Meltzoff
337 citations
Recent studies in developmental psychology have found evidence to suggest that there exists an innate system that accounts for the possibilities of early infant imitation and the existence of phantom limbs in cases of congenital absence of limbs. These results challenge traditional assumptions about the status and development of the body schema and body image, and about the nature of the...
Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne
May 1, 1996
Allan T. Morrison, Harry T. Hunt
9 citations
AbstractThis study tests the hypothesis that questionnaire self - report measures of altered state experience are, by their very nature, affected by demand features (Orne, 1970), while interview self - report measures of experience are more resistant to these vulnerabilities. It was specifically hypothesized that an interview measure would distinguish the experiences of actual meditators...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
April 1, 1996
Franco Fabbro, Andrea Clarici, Amir Muzur et al.
The modifications of human vocal fundamental frequency (fa) were studied in six emotional imitations of a sequence during normal and hypnotic conditions. In hypnosis the fundamental frequency was significantly lower than in the normal condition; in particular, in this altered state of consciousness two emotional imitations (angry and crying conditions) were significantly different with respect...
The MIT Press eBooks
March 26, 1996
David J. Chalmers
1,964 citations
To make progress on the problem of consciousness, we have to confront it directly. In this paper, I first isolate the truly hard part of the problem, separating it from more tractable parts and giving an account of why it is so difficult to explain. I critique some recent work that uses reductive methods to address consciousness, and argue that such methods inevitably fail to come to grips with...
Advances in Consciousness Research
March 20, 1996
Rocco J. Gennaro
This interdisciplinary work contains the most sustained attempt at developing and defending one of the few genuine theories of consciousness. Following the lead of David Rosenthal, the author argues for the so-called 'higher-order thought theory of consciousness'. This theory holds that what makes a mental state conscious is the presence of a suitable higher-order thought directed at the mental...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 1996
Barry Michrina
Ethnopsychology is the study of native theories and understandings of emotions, of illness and curing, and of self and personality. In teaching this subject I use techniques such as dramas and experiential exercises to aid in expanding students'cognitive, visceral, and political consciousness of the world's indigenous psychologies.