The distinction between perception and cognition frames countless debates in philosophy and cognitive science. But what, if anything, does this distinction actually amount to? In this introductory article, we summarize recent work on this question. We first briefly consider the possibility that a perception-cognition border should be eliminated from our scientific ontology, and then introduce...
Trance is an altered state of consciousness characterized by alterations in cognition. In general, trance states induce mental silence (i.e., cognitive thought reduction), and mental silence can induce trance states. Conversely, mind-wandering is the mind's propensity to stray its attention away from the task at hand and toward content irrelevant to the current moment, and its main component is...
Mindful meditation is bedeviled by the tendency of the meditators mind to wander away from concentrating on the breath, or other focus, and wandering to random subjects stimulated by memories and distractions. The underling goal of meditation training is to learn how to silence the incessant chatter of the unfocused mind, Poetically referred to as the monkey mind, to enable being in the...
The healthy conscious brain is thought to operate near a critical state, reflecting optimal information processing and high susceptibility to external stimuli. Conversely, deviations from the critical state are hypothesized to give rise to altered states of consciousness (ASC). Measures of criticality could therefore be an effective way of establishing the conscious state of an individual....
Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background There is a growing body of empirical research that shows that psychological risk factors such as stress, type D personality, anger and hostility can lead to depression, anxiety, social isolation, and low socio-economics status. Psychological risk factors increase the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and contribute...
Revista de Gestão Social e AmbientalMay 23, 2023Fernando Campos Barbosa, Rodrigo Martins Tadine, Janaína Drawanz Pereira Rezende et al.1 citation
Objectives: Evaluate the available informations about dreams, analyzing hypotheses of the neuroscience and psychoanalysis. It is proposed to show discoveries of the dreams’ neurobiology as well as how psychology can explain this phenomenon, in order to observe an integration between these perspectives. Methods: For this literature review studies were selected (databases - MEDLINE, PUBMED,...
Research SquareMay 22, 2023Sylvain Penaud, Delphine Yeh, Alexandre Gaston-Bellegarde et al.
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Abstract Recent studies suggest that the human body plays a critical role in encoding and retrieving episodic memories of past events, yet the precise relationship between bodily self-consciousness and memory formation, especially in real-life contexts, remains a topic of ongoing research. The present study investigated the relationship between bodily self-consciousness and episodic memory...
Contents of consciousness change over time. However, the study of dynamics in consciousness has been largely neglected. Aru and Bachmann have recently brought to the attention of scientists dealing with consciousness the relevance of making inquiries about its temporal evolution. Importantly, they also pointed out several experimental questions as guidelines for researchers interested in...
What does it mean for a thought, idea, belief, or wish to be about something? And what do we mean when we say that we are aware of thinking, presenting, believing, or wishing when we do? Much of the philosophy of mind of the 20th and 21st centuries has focused on these two questions. Perhaps due to a certain dominant way of doing the history of philosophy in England and the United States after...
Perception of one’s self and body in time and space are fundamental aspects of self-consciousness. It scaffolds our subjective experience of being present, in the here and now, a vital condition for our survival and wellbeing. Depersonalisation (DP) is characterized by distressing feeling of being ‘spaced out’, detached from one’s self, body and the world, as well as atypical ‘flat’ time...