Brain Structure and Function
November 2018
Rinaldo Livio Perri, Marika Berchicci, Valentina Bianco et al.
The present work follows recent evidences of studies showing that visual stimuli evoke two early prefrontal event-related potentials (ERP) concomitant to the canonical occipital activities, but originating within the anterior insula (the pN1 and the pP1 components). To clarify the exogenous/endogenous nature of these components, we performed two experiments in which stimulus physical features...
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
November 2018
Ian R Kleckner, Eric C Anderson, Nicole J Betz et al.
A growing body of research claims that stimuli presented outside conscious awareness can influence affect, speech perception, decision-making, eating behavior, and social judgments. However, research has shown that conscious awareness is a continuous phenomenon. Using a continuous flash suppression (CFS) paradigm to suppress awareness of affective faces (smiling and scowling), we demonstrate...
Acta Psychologica
November 1, 2018
Chiara Valzolgher, Mara Mazzurega, M. Zampini et al.
In our study, we aimed to reduce bodily self-consciousness using a multisensory illusion (MI), and tested whether this manipulation increases Self-objectification (the psychological attitude to perceive one's own body as an object). Participants observed their own body from a first-person perspective, through a head-mounted display, while receiving incongruent (or congruent) visuo-tactile...
KnE Life Sciences
November 1, 2018
D Gunina
The article reveals the problem of theoretical understanding and practical investigation of the relationship between the concepts of consciousness, selfconsciousness, ‘I-concepts’, ‘I-image’. The criteria for the correlation of the concepts of consciousness, self-consciousness, ‘I-concepts’, ‘the I-image’ have been developed. The systematization of the conceptual apparatus, expressed in the...
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...