Outlines Critical Practice Studies
January 2, 2023
Anne Maj Nielsen
In this article, I present a sensory-based transmethodological research approach based on body-phenomenological conceptualizations of embodied memory and lived experiences, and on cultural-historical conceptualizations of modes of socializing behavior and mediating means as the nexus for personal learning and development. The transmethodology combines sensory methods to study individual...
Research Outreach
2023
Richard Ambron
1 citation
ave you ever found yourself pondering philosophical questions like, 'What is consciousness?'In its simplest form, consciousness is our awareness that we exist.But how do we become aware that we exist?The answer lies in solving the mind-body paradox, namely, how does consciousness, a property of our non-physical mind, emerge from the workings of our physical nervous system and brain?This...
Reading Descartes
2023
Andrea Sangiacomo
Consciousness is connected with the fact that a subject is aware and open to the manifestation of whatever appears. Existence, by contrast, is used to express the fact that something is given in experience, is present, or is real. Usually, the two notions are taken to be somehow related. This chapter suggests that existence is at best introduced as a metaphysical (or meta-experiential) concept...
International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences & Technology
2023
A.R.V. Murthy
Dreams are a universal human experience that can be described as a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive and emotional occurrences during sleep. Dreams are the stories and images that our minds create while we sleep. They can be entertaining, romantic, disturbing, frightening, and sometimes bizarre. Why and how we dream remains something of a mystery. There is no cognitive...
Cognition and Experience
2023
Andrey Gostev, Andrey Fomin
The article deals with theoretical and methodological problem – the contribution of history of psychology and historical psychology to studying of spiritual/moral sphere of human existence and religious experience. Such knowledge introduces the psychological science to ontology of human psyche, which presupposes its transcendent dimension and «metaphysical/universal» foundations. The importance...
eScholarship@McGill
2023
Syeda Shireen
Emotional eating, or overeating in response to negative emotions, is problematic because of its association with an increased risk for overweight and obesity, difficulties losing weight, diabetes, and heart disease. As such, several studies have focused on understanding the mechanisms that underlie this behavior and ways of reducing it. This dissertation consists of three studies that...
Palgrave studies in workplace spirituality and fulfillment
2023
David W. Orme-Johnson
2 citations
Abstract This chapter reports on the paradigm of influencing the collective consciousness to create beneficial effects for societies. It presents this using three large public well-controlled published studies that document that when a group of the square root of 1% or more of a population practices a specific form of automatic self-transcending meditation (the Transcendental Meditation and...
Transactions of the Japan Academy
2023
Naoyuki Osaka
Meditation in Zen has received much attention in the scientific exploration of consciousness from metacognition and the social brain. Zen meditation provides effective clues to self-knowledge by providing awareness of “present self-being”. Our brains are thought to operate in dynamic equilibrium every day with two broad networks: the working memory network (WMN), which is oriented toward...
Frontiers in Public Health
2023
Ashley Melvin, Christopher Canning, Fariha Chowdhury et al.
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has placed incredible demands on healthcare workers (HCWs) and adversely impacted their well-being. Throughout the pandemic, organizations have sought to implement brief and flexible mental health interventions to better support employees. Few studies have explored HCWs' lived experiences of participating in brief, online mindfulness programming during the...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2023
Marcin Koculak, Michał Wierzchoń
Abstract: Vision is inseparably connected to perceptual awareness which can be seen as the culmination of sensory processing. Studies on conscious vision reveal that object recognition is just one of the means through which our representation of the world is built. We propose an operationalization of subjective experience in the context of deep neural networks (DNNs) that could encourage a more...