Extended reality (XR), encompassing various forms of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), has become a powerful experimental tool in consciousness research due to its capability to create holistic and immersive experiences of oneself and surrounding environments through simulation. One hallmark of a successful XR experience is when it elicits a strong sense of presence, which can be...
The brain cannot stop elaborating information. While the circuitries implied in processing sensory information, and those involved in programming and producing movements, have been extensively studied and characterized, what circuits elicit and sustain the endogenous activity (which might be referred to as imaginative activity) has not been clarified to a similar extent. The two areas which...
The classic view holds that when "split-brain" patients are presented with an object in the right visual field, they will correctly identify it verbally and with the right hand. However, when the object is presented in the left visual field, the patient verbally states that he saw nothing but nevertheless identifies it accurately with the left hand. This interaction suggests that perception,...
Mindfulness is an attribute of consciousness to manage social fear avoidance and promote well-being. Social anxiety is a common psychological experience noted among the general population. Social anxiety develops during adolescence and is prevalent among college students. This study investigates the factors contributing to social anxiety - fear and avoidance of social situations of female...
We present a mixed-methods study, from an anthropological perspective, of 22 healthy voice-hearers ie, people who report hearing voices but have no need for clinical care. They were interviewed using the Varieties Of Individual Voice-Experiences Scale (VOICES), a new scale assessing phenomenology, beliefs and relationships with voices, and their emotional and behavioral impact. Despite in many...
This paper attempts to reveal the role of New Age practices among post-Soviet (mainly Russian) youth by looking at how New Age practitioners interpret them for themselves. The theoretical framework of the article was the conceptualization of Michel Foucault’s “the care of the self techniques”. The characteristics of the New Age practices as “the care of the self techniques” were highlighted:...
Awe, a complex emotion, arises in response to perceptually and conceptually vast stimuli that transcend one's current frames of reference, which is associated with subjective psychological phenomena, such as a sense of self and consciousness. This study aimed to develop a Japanese version of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S), a widely used questionnaire that robustly measured the state of awe,...
The extension of cognition beyond the brain to the body and beyond the body to the environment is an area of debate in philosophy and the cognitive sciences. Yet, these debates largely overlook olfaction, a sensory modality used by most animals. Here, I use the philosopher's framework to explore the implications of embodiment for olfactory cognition. The philosopher's 4E framework comprises...
The originality of Jan Patočka’s work stands out in the multi-faceted field of phenomenology. It can be described as innovative, particularly when faced with the methodological approach that requires that philosophical reflection remain within the limits established by the correlational a priori. The impact of that originality can be clearly seen in Renaud Barbaras’ works on so-called...
Aron Gurwitsch is usually considered as a minor figure within what Herbert Spiegelberg has called “The Phenomenological Movement”; his theory of the field of consciousness, however, has played a great influence on the philosophies of Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and is probably one of the most radical versions of a non-egological theory of consciousness. It is not by chance that...