Neuroscience of Consciousness
April 1, 2022
Nike Walter, Thilo Hinterberger
Abstract This study was based on the contemporary proposal that distinct states of consciousness are quantifiable by neural complexity and critical dynamics. To test this hypothesis, it was aimed at comparing the electrophysiological correlates of three meditation conditions using nonlinear techniques from the complexity and criticality framework as well as power spectral density. Thirty...
Topoi
April 1, 2022
Janna Van Grunsven
13 citations
AbstractIn this paper I home in on an ethical phenomenon that is powerfully elucidated by means of enactive resources but that has, to my knowledge, not yet been explicitly addressed in the literature. The phenomenon in question concerns what I will term the paradox of moral perception, which, to be clear, does not refer to a logical but to a phenomenological-practical paradoxicality....
Gestalt Theory
April 1, 2022
Patoine Pierre-Louis
7 citations
This article explores the relations among three forms of representations (artistic, mental, and neural) and immersion, considered as an altered state of consciousness, in the context of literary reading. We first define immersive reading as an intensification of our embodied experience of literary representation, in accordance to neuropsychological studies about embodied cognition. We further...
Journal of Consciousness Studies
March 31, 2022
Victor A. F. Lamme
Evidence for all sorts of cognition in animals is mounting. But is this accompanied by conscious sensation or phenomenology? To answer that question, it is noted that consciousness to us presents itself as a contrast: we are asleep or awake, we either see something or we don't, each state or condition accompanied by distinct neural correlates. The contrast implicitly holds there is conscious...
الأستاذ
March 31, 2022
Fadi Butrus K. Habash
The present research is a stylistic attempt to study the unified sides of stream of consciousness and interior monologue in selected extracts from Faulkner's and Ginsberg’s: Absalom, Absalom! and “Howl”. Its relevance is to the sophisticated techniques that help unify the two sides in the works. These techniques are linguistic techniques, narrative techniques and metaleptic ones. The purpose of...
Jurnal Biomedik : JBM
March 31, 2022
Charles Mengga, T. Pasiak, J. Tuda
Abstrak: Smoking behavior is still a health problem in Indonesia. Nicotine dependence which stimulates the release of dopamine in the brain is the reason it is difficult to quit smoking. The awareness factor plays an important role in behavior change. Consciousness is the result of the work of the ascending reticular activating system of the brain. Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 31, 2022
Asa Young, Isabella Robbins, Shivang Shelat
Crick and Koch’s 1990 “neurobiological theory of consciousness” sparked the race for the physical correlates of subjective experience. 30 years later, cognitive sciences trend toward consideration of the brain’s electromagnetic field as the primary seat of consciousness, the “to be” of the individual. Recent advancements in laboratory tools have preceded an influx of studies reporting a...
Journal of Consciousness Studies
March 31, 2022
Jonathan Birch, D. Broom, Heather Browning et al.
A conscious being has a subjective point of view on the world and on its own body. This idea of a ‘point of view’ is easiest to grasp in the case of vision. Ernst Mach, in the Analysis of Sensations, famously attempted to draw his own visual point of view (Figure 1). But there is far more to human subjective experience than vision. Our subjective point of view includes sounds, odours, tastes,...
Journal of Consciousness Studies
March 31, 2022
A. Crump, Jonathan Birch
We consider the relationship between neural and behavioural evidence for animal consciousness. We critically examine two recent studies: one neural and one behavioural. The first, on crows, finds different neural activity depending on whether a stimulus is reported as seen or unseen. However, to implicate this neural activity in consciousness, we must assume that a specific conditioned...
Middle East Current Psychiatry
March 30, 2022
Wafaa M. Abdelmoneim, Nagwa M. Ghandour, M. Fawzy et al.
There is an expanding use of new psychoactive substances containing synthetic cannabinoids in the last years. This study was conducted to identify the epidemiologic data of acute and chronic toxicity by synthetic cannabinoids in Upper Egypt patients. All cases included in the presenting study were fifty males. Most users of synthetic cannabinoids were in the adolescence and middle age group...