Revista latino-americana de enfermagem
September 5, 2013
Ana Catarina Araújo Elias, Joel Sales Giglio, Cibele Andrucioli de Mattos Pimenta
OBJECTIVE: To understand Spiritual Pain and the new meaning it takes on using the RIME intervention. Subjects and methods: Eleven terminally ill patients (n=11), treated at public hospitals, received care from six professionals trained for RIME application. The methods used were both qualitative, through phenomenology, and quantitative, based on the descriptive method, using the Wilcoxon Test....
Religião e Sociedade
September 5, 2013
Catón Eduardo Carini
Neste artigo, analisamos o aspecto fenomenológico do ritual zen na Argentina, especificamente nas práticas e representações relacionadas ao corpo, ao sofrimento e à intersubjetividade. Em primeiro lugar, enfocamos o modo como os praticantes da meditação experimentam e significam a dor e o sofrimento. Em seguida, analisamos o propiciamento de um habitus psicofísico social e construído...
arXiv (Cornell University)
September 3, 2013
M. Maniatis
preprint
Leibniz thought experiment of perception, sensing, and thinking is reconsidered. We try to understand Leibniz picture in view of our knowledge of basic neuroscience. In particular we can see how the emergence of consciousness could in principle be understood.
PLoS One
September 3, 2013
Dusan Hirjak, Thiemo Breyer, Philipp Arthur Thomann et al.
47 citations
OBJECTIVES: In 1950, Kurt Schneider proposed that a considerable number of schizophrenia patients develop first-rank symptoms (FRS). In such cases, patients report made experiences, replaced control of will, thought insertion, broadcast or withdrawal and delusional perception, respectively. Although a number of recent studies tend to explain FRS in terms of neurobiological and...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
September 3, 2013
Enzo Tagliazucchi, Frederic von Wegner, Astrid Morzelewski et al.
278 citations
The integration of segregated brain functional modules is a prerequisite for conscious awareness during wakeful rest. Here, we test the hypothesis that temporal integration, measured as long-term memory in the history of neural activity, is another important quality underlying conscious awareness. For this aim, we study the temporal memory of blood oxygen level-dependent signals across the...
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia
September 2, 2013
Graziella Morselli
Phenomenology, Psychology, and Embodiment. Reflections on Edmund Husserl’s Philosophy as a Rigorous Science – The empirical subject psychologists investigate is closely related to the pure subject phenomenologists work on. Because of this, one could think that phenomenological analysis embraces naturalistic presuppositions, even though Husserl decidedly rejected this idea and argued, on the...
Experimental Brain Research
September 2013
Jeremy R. Gray, John A Bargh, Ezequiel Morsella
The study of intrapsychic conflict has long been central to many key theories about the control of behavior. More recently, by focusing on the nature of conflicting processes in the brain, investigators have revealed great insights about controlled versus automatic processes and the nature of self-control. Despite these advances, many theories of cognitive control or self-control remain...
Medical Hypotheses
September 1, 2013
Y Auxéméry
An near death experience (NDE) is the experience of an atypical state of consciousness that is induced by the neuropsychological consequences of a passage near death. Far from being a psychologically traumatic event, these experiences never cause flashbacks and can even eliminate the fear of death. Listening to patients who have shared their near death sensations has encouraged the reevaluation...
Consciousness and Cognition
September 1, 2013
Jana Speth, Clemens Frenzel, Ursula Voss
We present Activity Analysis as a new method for the quantification of subjective reports of altered states of consciousness with regard to the indicated level of simulated motor activity. Empirical linguistic activity analysis was conducted with dream reports conceived immediately after EEG-controlled periods of hypnagogic hallucinations and REM-sleep in the sleep laboratory. Reports of...
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
September 1, 2013
Carolyn A. Ristau
Cognitive Ethology, the field initiated by Donald R Griffin, was defined by him as the study of the mental experiences of animals as they behave in their natural environment in the course of their normal lives. It encompasses both the problems defined by Chalmers as the 'hard' problem of consciousness, phenomenological experience, and the 'easy' problems, the phenomena that appear to be...