Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism
November 1, 2018
Miranda Anderson, M. Wheeler, Mark Sprevak
The general introduction, which is replicated across all four volumes, aims to orientate readers unfamiliar with this area of research. It provides an overview of the different approaches within the distributed cognition framework and discussion of the value of a distributed cognitive approach to the humanities. A distributed cognitive approach recognises that cognition is brain, body and world...
Open Theology
November 1, 2018
James M. Nelson, Jonah Koetke
2 citations
Abstract An enduring feature of Christian religious life has been the experience of the demonic. This experience can be found in the New Testament, most obviously in reported encounters with demons, but more centrally in the language of spiritual warfare that pervades much of the Pauline literature. In the Patristic period, these ideas were cemented in the Christian tradition in the writings of...
The Oxford Handbook of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
November 1, 2018
Randy Wolbert
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy can be conceptualized as the transaction between behaviour therapy and Zen contemplative practice, held together with a dialectical philosophy. When first developed, mindfulness practices had not yet been incorporated into psychotherapy. Marsha Linehan chose to augment behaviour therapy with Zen practice. This chapter begins with a brief history of Zen and...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
November 1, 2018
Crystal L Park, A Rani Elwy, Meghan Maiya et al.
Yoga interventions are heterogeneous and vary along multiple dimensions. These dimensions may affect mental and physical health outcomes in different ways or through different mechanisms. However, most studies of the effects of yoga on health do not adequately describe or quantify the components of the interventions being implemented. This lack of detail prevents researchers from making...
Biosystems
November 1, 2018
Nadezhda Barvitenko, Alfons Lawen, Muhammad Aslam et al.
Myriads of signaling pathways in a single cell function to achieve the highest spatio-temporal integration. Data are accumulating on the role of electromechanical soliton-like waves in signal transduction processes. Theoretical studies strongly suggest feasibility of both classical and quantum computing involving microtubules. A theoretical study of the role of the complex composed of the...
Neuropharmacology
November 1, 2018
Robin Carhart-Harris
The entropic brain hypothesis proposes that within upper and lower limits, after which consciousness may be lost, the entropy of spontaneous brain activity indexes the informational richness of conscious states. Here the hypothesis is revisited four years on from its original publication. It is shown that the principle that the entropy of brain activity is elevated in the psychedelic state is...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 31, 2018
Charles C-H Hong, James H Fallon, Karl Friston et al.
The neural correlates of rapid eye movements (REMs) in sleep are extraordinarily robust; including REM-locked multisensory-motor integration and accompanying activation in the retrosplenial cortex, the supplementary eye field and areas encompassing cholinergic basal nucleus (Hong et al., 2009). The phenomenology of REMs speaks to the notion that perceptual experience in both sleep and...
Nursing & Primary Care
October 30, 2018
Lu Chueh-Fen, Hung Ming-Kuo, S. Nancy
Many aspects of meditation have been examined for over seventy years, including its physiological, psychological variables, and clinical conditions. However, the effectiveness of Zen meditation for clinical application has been debated. The quality of meditation could be one of the keys to understand the disagreements among studies. This study aims to reveal the experience of Zen meditation...
Routledge eBooks
October 26, 2018
Willem Lemmens
This chapter presents Hume’s account of the origins of religious belief as developed in his Natural History of Religion . It shows, first of all, how Hume’s psychology of religion forms an integral part of his philosophy of mind in the Treatise of Human Nature . Second, it elucidates how Hume’s psychology of religion is interwoven with his moral critique of religion. Religion stems not from an...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 26, 2018
Gabriella Bottini, Francesca Giulia Magnani, Gerardo Salvato et al.
3 citations
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 26 October 2018Sec. Consciousness Research Volume 9 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02068