Annual Review of Anthropology
July 26, 2023
John Marlovits, Matthew Wolf‐meyer
6 citations
Dominant anthropological theories of mind, cognition, and consciousness reify particular ways of being in the world as “normal,” which marginalizes the experiences of people who do not meet normative expectations of personhood or exhibit nonnormative subjectivities. By focusing on atypical forms of communication and self-representation in the ethnographic record, which draws from work in the...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
July 25, 2023
Hyuk-June Moon, Louis Albert, Emanuela De Falco et al.
1 citation
preprint
Abstract Grid cells in entorhinal cortex (EC) encode an individual’s location in space and rely on environmental cues and multisensory bodily cues. Body-derived signals are also primary signals for the sense of self as the continuous application of visuo-tactile bodily stimuli elicits illusory drifts in perceived self-location. It is unknown whether illusory changes in self-location are...
Cortex
July 25, 2023
Tommaso Bertoni, Giulio Mastria, Nikita Akulenko et al.
23 citations
Simple multisensory manipulations can induce the illusory misattribution of external objects to one's own body, allowing to experimentally investigate body ownership. In this context, body ownership has been conceptualized as the result of the online Bayesian optimal estimation of the probability that one object belongs to the body from the congruence of multisensory inputs. This idea has been...
SCIREA Journal of Sociology
July 25, 2023
D. Raković
4 citations
We hereby focus on the quantum-holographic bases of psychosomatics and spirituality. This is of special importance due to the widespread use of integrative medicine in developed countries – as contemporary research of psychosomatic diseases suggests necessity of holistic methods (focusing on the body's acupuncture system and consciousness), oriented to treating man as a whole and not of disease...
Virtual Reality
July 21, 2023
Silvia Serino, Maria Sansoni, Daniele Di Lernia et al.
6 citations
Abstract Illusions that create a sense of ownership over a virtual body have been widely used to investigate the characteristics of our bodily experience. Despite the great potential of 360-degree videos to implement full-body ownership illusion, research is in its early stages, and no validated tools—neither commercial nor free—are available for the scientific and clinical community. In the...
Preprints.org
July 21, 2023
Fran Hancock, Fernando E. Rosas, Mengsen Zhang et al.
16 citations
preprint
Healthy brain functioning depends on balancing stable integration between brain areas for effective coordinated functioning, with bursts of desynchronisation to allow subsystems to reconfigure and express functional specialisation. Metastability, a concept originated in statistical physics and dynamical systems theory, has been proposed as a key signature that characterises this balance....
AN-ICON
July 21, 2023
Federica Cavaletti
Representing altered states of consciousness, even through the most phantasmal of technical images, is an inherent contradiction; once we attribute a physical body, i.e. objectivity, to mental images, we deny what Husserl considers their very essence. Jean Mitry draws from this assumption when discussing filmic access to mental states from a phenomenological perspective. The following essay...
Research Features
July 20, 2023
e usually think of consciousness in terms of the subjective inner states experienced by humans, such as emotion, thought, perception, and self-awareness.Scientists from a variety of academic disciplines, from psychology to philosophy, neuroscience to mathematics, have been debating how these conscious phenomena arise in the brain.Neuroscientists have investigated the relationship between...
Religions
July 20, 2023
Sophie-Anne Perkins
This article provides an in-depth exploration of the contextual, epistemic, ethical, personal, practical, religious, and socio-cultural factors that sixteen Western practitioners of Vajrayāna Buddhism highlighted as having particularly challenged their ability to learn and engage in deity yoga, including what strategies they may have adopted in attempting to overcome their impact. While these...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
July 20, 2023
Elizabeth Alphonsus, Lisa C. Fellin, Samuel Thoma et al.
4 citations
Introduction: In the tradition of phenomenological psychiatry, schizophrenia is described as a disturbance of the minimal self, i.e. the most basic form of self-awareness. This disturbance of the minimal self at the individual level is assumed to precede the intersubjective disturbances such as boundary weakening. However, the role of intersubjective disturbances in the emergence and recovery...