2018 IEEE Workshop on Augmented and Virtual Realities for Good Var4good 2018
December 13, 2018
As virtual reality designers, we aim to create technological experiences to better human connection and well-being in hopes of helping humankind and society in a positive way. It is therefore important to ground the frameworks we use in genuine human experience rather than mindlessly apply models that do not account for highly personal and profound experiences. One type of experience that could...
Adaptive Behavior
December 13, 2018
Maria Clara Garavito, Jorge Dávila-gonzález
1 citation
How is it possible, even as a literary conceit, to feel one’s free will beating in one’s blood? The immediacy and spontaneity with which this idea is posited in a literary context contrasts with the subtle and painstaking work through which one may understand how bodily feelings, in a given weather and context, may tell us something about ourselves and our possibilities for action in a given...
The Emerald Handbook of Quantum Storytelling Consulting
December 10, 2018
Marja Turunen
Abstract: The most widely used conceptualizations of organizing assume that organizational issues are known, and consequently, organizing targets on control and management. Traditional organizing focuses on planning for the known future with a small group of experts and for the most part neglects the experiential ambiguities of organizational stakeholders. That research stream neglects a topic...
Journal of Cardiology & Current Research
December 6, 2018
Charunayan Kamath
Found in cultures, spiritual traditions, and healing practices throughout the world, meditation is a mind-body practice with different approaches and variations, which began probably more than five thousand years ago. Since then it has developed and practiced to understand consciousness and improve health conditions. All these meditation techniques can be broadly classified under two...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
December 6, 2018
Charles Fernyhough, Ben Alderson-Day, Russell T. Hurlburt et al.
Research into resting-state cognition has often struggled with the challenge of assessing inner experience in the resting state. We employed Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES), a method aimed at generating detailed and high-fidelity descriptions of experience, to investigate how experience in the resting state can vary between internal, external, and multiple simultaneous streams. Using a...
Scientific Reports
December 6, 2018
Benjamin Baird, Anna Castelnovo, Olivia Gosseries et al.
74 citations
Humans typically lack awareness that they are dreaming while dreaming. However, at times a remarkable exception occurs and reflective consciousness can be regained while dreaming, referred to as lucid dreaming. While most individuals experience lucid dreams rarely there is substantial variance in lucid dream frequency. The neurobiological basis of lucid dreaming is unknown, but evidence points...
December 5, 2018
Enrico Fucci
1 citation
Régulation de l'apprentissage perceptuel par la méditation de pleine conscience : mesures qualitatives et neurophysiologiques De part sa mise en pratique considérable dans des conditions cliniques, l’étude neuroscientifique de la méditation de pleine conscience a vu un développement rapide ces deux dernières décennies. Malgré des preuves de modifications de l’activité et de la structure du...
arXiv Preprint Archive
December 3, 2018
Takayuki Niizato, Kotaro Sakamoto, Yoh-Ichi Mototake et al.
preprint
Collective behaviour is known to be the result of diverse dynamics and is sometimes likened to a living system. Although many studies have revealed the dynamics of various collective behaviours, their main focus was on the information process inside the collective, not on the whole system itself. For example, the qualitative difference between two elements and three elements as a system has...
Current Opinion in Psychology
December 2018
Lauri Nummenmaa, Juha M Lahnakoski, Enrico Glerean
Sociability and capability of shared mental states are hallmarks of the human species, and pursuing shared goals oftentimes requires coordinating both behaviour and mental states. Here we review recent work using indices of intersubject neural synchronisation for measuring similarity of mental states across individuals. We discuss the methodological advances and limitations in the analyses...
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
December 2018
Maria Wahlström, Monica Rydell Karlsson, Jörgen Medin
We investigated the perceptions and experiences of a therapeutic yoga form, MediYoga, which is evolved from Kundaliniyoga among patients with symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). an inductive exploratory design was chosen with individual semi-structured interviews. The study was conducted with 12 participants (7 men and 5 women, average age 63.5) at a university hospital, Sweden....