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The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding.

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry December 1, 2022 Xiaosheng Chen, P. Reed

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The current study examines the extent to which mindfulness impacts on operant conditioning processes, and explores the suggestion that mindfulness training serves to make humans more sensitive to the current reinforcement contingencies with which they are presented. In particular, the effect of mindfulness on the micro-structure of human schedule performance was...

Panpsychism and God

Philosophy Compass December 1, 2022 Joanna Leidenhag

Abstract: Panpsychism is the view, found in ancient and modern, Eastern and Western philosophies, that mind is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the universe. This article explores the use of panpsychism to support different views of God. It is seen that as a family of views, panpsychism is a theologically flexible position that has been used to support atheism, pantheism, panentheism,...

The Believed as Believed: The Noematic Dimensions of Faith and Doubt in Religious Experience

Phainomenon December 1, 2022 J. McNeilly

Abstract Countless scholars have wrestled with the ambiguities and complexities in determining the role of the noema in Husserl’s theory of intentionality since his transcendental turn, and consequently converted what was intended to be a structural solution to a problem into a contested problem itself.1 Shifting emphasis from the ‘whatness’, or ontological concerns of the correlate...

Editorial: Predictive Processing and Consciousness

Review of Philosophy and Psychology December 1, 2022 Mark Miller, Andy Clark, Tobias Schlicht 8 citations

Predictive Processing (henceforth PP) is a recent, exciting framework emerging at the crossroads of cognitive science, statistical modeling and philosophy of mind (Friston 2005(Friston , 2010)).Informed by recent developments in computational neuroscience and Bayesian psychology, it offers a paradigm shifting approach to studying cognition, often being presented as "the first truly unifying...

Facing Up to the Problem of Affect

Journal of Consciousness Studies December 1, 2022 Nathaniel F. Barrett

When examined closely, our experience of affect presents a special challenge: it seems that there is no common quality that marks the pleasantness of conscious states and feelings. The implications of this finding have been debated by philosophers and psychologists for more than a century, and yet the peculiar phenomenology of affect is rarely discussed within consciousness studies. The purpose...

Stories of a Transformation in Consciousness: A self-study to ground narrative inquiry research in consciousness education

International Journal for Transformative Research December 1, 2022 Laurel Waterman

Abstract: This article is a narrative account of my search for knowledge about the nature of consciousness, and the implications of my findings for research and education. For over three decades, I accepted the dominant script presented to me through my education, both formal and informal, which assumes that the brain creates consciousness. Further, when the brain dies, consciousness dies with...

The Effects of Dancing to Electronic Music and the Additional Intake of Psychoactive Drugs on the Experience of Trance

European Journal of Psychology Open December 1, 2022 Thomas Schäfer, Patricia Kreuzburg 1 citation

Abstract: Background: Dancing to music can induce states of trance as well as very pleasant or ecstatic experiences – particularly when the music is repetitive, monotonous, and rhythmic. The consciousness-changing and trance-inducing effects of electronic music resemble some of the psychoactive effects induced by specific drugs. We hypothesized that the effects of dancing to electronic music...

The cognitive-phenomenological assessment of delusions and hallucinations at the early intervention in psychosis service stage: The results of a quality improvement project.

Early Intervention in Psychiatry December 1, 2022 Maria Isaacson, Cassie M Hazell, John Cape et al.

Clinical assessments are vital for gaining an understanding of a patients' presenting problem. A priority for Early Intervention in Psychosis Service staff is understanding and supporting their patients' experiences of hallucinations and/or delusions. We aimed to identify what cognitive-phenomenology dimensions of hallucinations and delusions EIPS staff were assessing with their patients. We...

DOI: 10.1111/eip.13283 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Delusions Hallucinations Psychotic disorders Quality improvement

Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection

MFS: Modern Fiction Studies December 1, 2022 M. Bernini, Charles Fernyhough

Abstract:This essay promotes the idea that current cognitive models of mind wandering and inner speech can help us better understanding the phenomenological constituents of what Joyce calls “the mystery of the conscious” as simulated by modernist literary investigations. In our essay, we rework a model of perceptual decoupling (how attention disengages from perception) and peripheral awareness...

Neural correlates of consciousness in an attentional blink paradigm with uncertain target relevance.

Neuroimage December 1, 2022 Torge Dellert, Sophie Krebs, Maximilian Bruchmann et al.

Several event-related potentials (ERPs) have been proposed as neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), most prominently the early visual awareness negativity (VAN) and the late P3b component. Highly influential support for the P3b comes from studies utilizing the attentional blink (AB), where conscious perception of a first visual target (T1) impairs reporting a second target (T2) presented...