Dream research has advanced significantly over the last twenty years, thanks to the new applications of neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques. Many findings pointed out that mental activity during sleep and wakefulness shared similar neural bases. On the other side, recent studies have highlighted that dream experience is promoted by significant brain activation, characterized by...
The research objectives are as follows: to give an idea of Susan Hurley’s philosophy and to check whether the relevant philosophical problem of mental representation and mental content is non-contradictive. The article criticizes the traditional conception of consciousness, in which cognition is considered as an interface between perception and action, without taking into account interrelation...
In recent years, specific cortical networks have been proposed to be crucial for sustaining consciousness, including the posterior hot zone and frontoparietal resting state networks (RSN). Here, we computationally evaluate the relative contributions of three RSNs - the default mode network (DMN), the salience network (SAL), and the central executive network (CEN) - to consciousness and its loss...
espanolEl autor realiza una lectura en clave perspectivista de la neurofenomenologia, enfoque transdisciplinar y metodologico iniciado a mediados de los 90 por el neurobiologo Francisco J. Varela desde el ambito experimental de las ciencias de la mente. La originalidad del articulo reside en que estudia comparativamente el problematico entrecruce de la neurofenomenologia de Varela con el...
A core goal in cognitive neuroscience is identifying the physical substrates of the patterns of thought that occupy our daily lives. Contemporary views suggest that the landscape of ongoing experience is heterogeneous and can be influenced by features of both the person and the context. This perspective piece considers recent work that explicitly accounts for both the heterogeneity of the...
OBJECTIVES: Two of Europe's most influential psychopathologists at the start of the twentieth century (Eugen Bleuler and Karl Jaspers) pointed out the fact that patients rarely act according to their delusions. This study proposes an investigation of how this issue is addressed in psychopathological literature. METHODS: This article offers a critical review of psychopathological literature...
A Ganzfeld is a homogenized visual and auditory perceptual field which can induce altered states of consciousness (ASC; Metzger, 1929; Schmidt & Prein, 2019). Using a balanced intrasubject design, we compared participants' experience during two differently colored (red, green) 25-min Ganzfeld sessions with brown noise as acoustic stimulation. Participants were exposed to the colored visual...
Abstract Objective In this study, we comprehensively studied alternations of EEG microstates in resting state, light, and deep level of propofol-induced unconsciousness. We further investigated the feasibility of using microstate features for differentiating different consciousness levels. Methods 60-channel EEG was recorded from 31 male subjects in resting, light, and deep anesthesia states....
This essay continues the conversation begun in Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There Is a Mystery” (2015) regarding Africana esoteric traditions and the emerging discipline devoted to their critical examination: Africana esoteric studies (AES). We provide an expanded rationale for this multifaceted endeavor, while at the same time offering a collegial exchange to the...
Creative Arts Educ Ther (2020) 6(2):141–152 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2020/6/4 Expressive Arts as a Way of Making Meaning and Gaining Insight: An Eastern Perspective with the “Mind” 從東方思想探討表達藝術作為尋找意義與洞見的方式 Abstract This article includes two parts. Part I attempts to use one of the Buddhist psychology theories, “five ever-present mental states,” to illustrate how our mind is interconnected and propose...