Frontiers in Psychology
2017
Jean-Paul Noel, Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino et al.
The construct of the "self" is conceived as being fundamental in promoting survival. As such, extensive studies have documented preferential processing of self-relevant stimuli. For example, attributes that relate to the self are better encoded and retrieved, and are more readily consciously perceived. The preferential processing of self-relevant information, however, appears to be especially...
Perspectives in Nursing Science
2017
Seung Wan Kang
2 citations
Purpose: Breathing can be controlled either unconsciously or consciously. In Asian countries, various conscious breathing-control techniques have been practiced for many years to promote health and wellbeing. However, the exact mechanism underlying these techniques has not yet been established. The purpose of this study is to explore the physiological mechanism explaining how conscious...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2017
Andrew Herfst
Yoga is a popular alternative mental health intervention and an integral component of leading mindfulness-based interventions. Yoga helps with concerns like anxiety and depression (e.g., Field, 2011), but we do not yet understand how it helps. With the aim of developing more potent theoretical models of therapeutic yoga, there have been calls in the literature to explore yoga’s underlying...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
2017
Jorge Cecílio Daher, Rodolfo Furlan Damiano, Alessandra Lamas Granero Lucchetti et al.
This study aims to conduct a search of publications investigating experiences commonly associated with the possibility of the existence of a consciousness independent of the brain held on the main scientific databases (Pubmed, Web of Knowledge, PsycINFO, Science Direct, and Scopus). Of the 9065 articles retrieved, 1954 were included (598 near-death experiences, 223 out-of-body experiences, 56...
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
2017
Gianluca Macauda
The experience of having a body is the key aspect for self-consciousness and it has been recognized that such a coherent bodily self relies on ongoing multisensory integration of bodily sensory inputs. A coherent bodily self is mostly taken for granted, despite being highly influenceable. To induce comparable bodily illusions in healthy participants, experimental paradigms have been developed...
Science Religion and Culture
2017
T. Peters
Even though Big History (BH) has successfully folded World History into Natural History, its method risks falling into a reductionist or materialist ideology we might label, scientism. BH’s windows remain closed to a fundamental human phenomenon, namely, the subjective experience of transcendent reality. Cosmic History, which augments BH, opens the big historian and the history student to...
Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts
2017
Leila Reinert
This study presents the concept of qualia, studied by neuroscience as one of the important aspects for the development of a conscious mind, and its association with the contemporary design focused on the subject. With the expansion of the field of design in understanding and extension, the meaning of the word design makes it necessary to review new relations that are formed among the artifact,...
Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung
2017
Kenneth R. Westphal
The neologism, ,,Gemütsphilosophie" – roughly: philosophy of mindedness – I coined for this article, following Kant's use of ,,Gemüt" to render the Latin 'animus', and thus avoid opting for one pole of Cartesian dualism by speaking of 'mind' or 'soul'. Likewise my neologism is a precaution against potential errors cloaked by 'philosophy of mind' or 'philosophy of spirit' (,,Philosophie des...
Psychiatriki
2017
O Giotakos
A variety of phenomena might be considered as reflecting impaired insight in psychosis, like failure to recognize signs, symptoms or disease, failure to derive appropriate cognitive representations, despite recognition of the disease, and misattribution of the source or cause of the disease. The unawareness of tardive dyskinesia symptoms in schizophrenic patients points that self-awareness...
Psychological Assessment
January 2017
David C Cicero, Aaron M Neis, Mallory J Klaunig et al.
Anomalous self-experiences (ASEs) are among the first symptoms to appear in the prodrome, predict the development of psychosis over and above clinical symptoms, and are common in people with schizophrenia. Although there are well-validated phenomenological interviews for assessing ASEs, there are no self-report measures. The current research describes 4 studies designed to develop and validate...