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Digital philology 2016 Gail Orgelfinger
The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims Gail Orgelfinger A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints. By Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. When demons began to torment her in late 1395, Ermine was a middle-aged (48) widow who had moved to Reims from the countryside a decade earlier with her elderly husband in order to find work. About two years after...
Open Journal of Medical Psychology 2016 Javier Álvarez-Rodríguez
We analyze certain mental automatisms appearing in the consciousness with phenomenological features of simple partial seizures (SPSs). We propose to include all these phenomena into a cognitive function to which we term hyperia. In this paper, we analyze the similarities between the nature of this cognitive function and the mechanisms used by our brain to elicit neuronal plasticity.
AMS Acta 2016 Giuseppe Galetta
Un’allucinazione vissuta consensualmente abbandonandosi all’oblio della coscienza: un “viaggio” allucinante nelle profondità dell’inconscio, intrapreso dall’artista nel rischioso tentativo di raggiungere senza certezza uno stato di “superiore” ispirazionee di mistica illuminazione, lasciando affiorare le proprie visioni ed i propri fantasmi interiori dalle nebbie lisergiche dell’estasi chimica...
VUBIR 2016 Francis Heylighen, Shima Beigi 11 citations
We approach the problem of the extended mind from a radically non-dualist perspective. The separation between mind and matter is an artefact of the outdated mechanistic worldview, which leaves no room for mental phenomena such as agency, intentionality, or feeling. We propose to replace it by an action ontology, which conceives mind and matter as aspects of the same network of processes. By...
2016 Bruno Herbelin, R. Salomon, Andrea Serino et al.
Recent neuroscience research emphasizes the embodied origins of the experience of the self. This chapter shows that further advances in the understanding of the phenomenon of VR-induced presence might be achieved in connection with advances in the understanding of the brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness. By reviewing the neural mechanisms that make the virtual reality experience...
Philosophy East and West 2016 Owen Flanagan
Does Yoga Induce Metaphysical Hallucinations?Interdisciplinarity at the Edge: Comments on Evan Thompson’s Waking, Dreaming, Being Owen Flanagan (bio) Waking, Dreaming, Being is an unusual book in many ways. I mention two. First, in some ways it is a memoir. Few philosophers started as a child doing the sort of philosophy that they did as a grown-up. Evan did. Evan grew up in the intellectually...
PLoS One 2016 Sabine U. König, Frank Schumann, Johannes Keyser et al.
Theories of embodied cognition propose that perception is shaped by sensory stimuli and by the actions of the organism. Following sensorimotor contingency theory, the mastery of lawful relations between own behavior and resulting changes in sensory signals, called sensorimotor contingencies, is constitutive of conscious perception. Sensorimotor contingency theory predicts that, after training,...
Frontiers in Psychology 2016 William Marshall, Jaime Gomez-Ramirez, Giulio Tononi
Integrated information (Φ) is a measure of the cause-effect power of a physical system. This paper investigates the relationship between Φ as defined in Integrated Information Theory and state differentiation ([Formula: see text]), the number of, and difference between potential system states. Here we provide theoretical justification of the relationship between Φ and [Formula: see text], then...
Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 2016 Nükhet Aladağ-Çiftdemir, İlay Yücel, Rıdvan Duran et al.
Synthetic cannabinoids or synthetic marijuana derivatives known as "Bonzai" in Turkey are addictive substances that affect the brain and have serious side effects. In recent years, the use of these substances has also been increasing in our country as well as all over the world. These substances present with various names and brands, the most common names in Turkey are "Bonzai" and "Jamaika"....
Multisensory Research 2016 Ophelia Deroy, Nathan Faivre, Claudia Lunghi et al. 73 citations
widespread neural interactions. Yet the complex interdependencies between multisensory integration and perceptual awareness, or consciousness, remain to be defined. While perceptual awareness has traditionally been studied in a single sense, in recent years we have witnessed a surge of interest in the role of multisensory integration in perceptual awareness. Based on a recent IMRF symposium on...