Auditory Imagery: Empirical Findings
... perception condition (referred to by Janata & Paroo, 2006, as attentional cueing), participants heard every note of the scale before the final note was presented. In the imagery condition, participants heard the first three or five notes, and they were instructed to image the remaining notes leading ...
... perception condition (referred to by Janata & Paroo, 2006, as attentional cueing), participants heard every note of the scale before the final note was presented. In the imagery condition, participants heard the first three or five notes, and they were instructed to image the remaining notes leading ...
Auditory Pathways and Processes
... auditory cortex and the cerebellum. The afferent pathways are still not completely understood. As a result of intensive research in both humans and animals in the last 20 years, the pathways and their functions are more completely mapped. The complexity of the transformation of auditory signals into ...
... auditory cortex and the cerebellum. The afferent pathways are still not completely understood. As a result of intensive research in both humans and animals in the last 20 years, the pathways and their functions are more completely mapped. The complexity of the transformation of auditory signals into ...
The Auditory System
... The ear or vestibulocochlear organ is composed of external, middle and inner parts (Fig. 7.1). The external ear consists of the auricle and the external acoustic meatus with the outer layer of the tympanic membrane. The middle ear is formed by the tympanic cavity, the auditory ossicles and the inner ...
... The ear or vestibulocochlear organ is composed of external, middle and inner parts (Fig. 7.1). The external ear consists of the auricle and the external acoustic meatus with the outer layer of the tympanic membrane. The middle ear is formed by the tympanic cavity, the auditory ossicles and the inner ...
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... areas in non-human primates [8–16], where primary subfields are organised in anterior-posterior frequency gradients from high-to-low (caudal primary auditory subfield A1), low-to-high (rostral primary auditory subfield R), and high-to-low (rostrotemporal primary auditory subfield RT) frequencies, wi ...
... areas in non-human primates [8–16], where primary subfields are organised in anterior-posterior frequency gradients from high-to-low (caudal primary auditory subfield A1), low-to-high (rostral primary auditory subfield R), and high-to-low (rostrotemporal primary auditory subfield RT) frequencies, wi ...
Changing relationship with voices: new
... the possibility of a life in contact with others, or at least the superficial appearance of such a life. In this sense, hallucinations are understood as both a sign of crisis and an attempt to overcome the crisis. Filling a gap with voices would constitute an attempt to overcome a crisis. According t ...
... the possibility of a life in contact with others, or at least the superficial appearance of such a life. In this sense, hallucinations are understood as both a sign of crisis and an attempt to overcome the crisis. Filling a gap with voices would constitute an attempt to overcome a crisis. According t ...
An unaware agenda: interictal consciousness
... Additional evidence comes from research into the P300 complex. The P3b event, which belongs to this complex, is an event-related potential proposed to index consciousness in different populations (Bekinschtein et al., 2009; Chennu and Bekinschtein, 2012). An EEG study revealed larger P300 mean laten ...
... Additional evidence comes from research into the P300 complex. The P3b event, which belongs to this complex, is an event-related potential proposed to index consciousness in different populations (Bekinschtein et al., 2009; Chennu and Bekinschtein, 2012). An EEG study revealed larger P300 mean laten ...
Searle on Emergence
... role of physical analogies is important for our understanding of emergent properties as a common thing in nature. It is usual that complex systems embody novel properties or behaviors which their constituents do not embody at elementary levels. From this point of view, the existence of mind and cons ...
... role of physical analogies is important for our understanding of emergent properties as a common thing in nature. It is usual that complex systems embody novel properties or behaviors which their constituents do not embody at elementary levels. From this point of view, the existence of mind and cons ...
Messages from the Brain Connectivity Regarding Neural Correlates
... zational principles of the cerebral cortex [11-16] and are applied in almost all cognitive domains [17]. They look like two sides of the same coin, since we cannot understand the brain function seeing only one aspect between these two features. Functional segregation ...
... zational principles of the cerebral cortex [11-16] and are applied in almost all cognitive domains [17]. They look like two sides of the same coin, since we cannot understand the brain function seeing only one aspect between these two features. Functional segregation ...
SI L56 (upload) - Amitabha Buddhist Centre
... An worldly ordinary person realises that the reflection of a face is not an actual face. From the perspective of this person, the “image of a face” is not an obscurational truth, but a falsity. This is similar to the earlier section where we talked about how form appears and exists in the perspectiv ...
... An worldly ordinary person realises that the reflection of a face is not an actual face. From the perspective of this person, the “image of a face” is not an obscurational truth, but a falsity. This is similar to the earlier section where we talked about how form appears and exists in the perspectiv ...
Hallucinations in children: Diagnostic and
... but no other psychotic symptoms have a better longterm prognosis than those with additional psychotic ...
... but no other psychotic symptoms have a better longterm prognosis than those with additional psychotic ...
The Brain, Consciousness, and the Afterlife
... trying to filter sense from nonsense, especially since skeptics often adopt the position that those who believe in immortality consider that because their claims have not been disproved. The problem with consciousness is that it is very hard to be defined and it implicates too many different things. ...
... trying to filter sense from nonsense, especially since skeptics often adopt the position that those who believe in immortality consider that because their claims have not been disproved. The problem with consciousness is that it is very hard to be defined and it implicates too many different things. ...
Psychoses induced by exceptional states of consciousness
... analysis has prospered to refer to the study of the mental disease worlds. This line culminates in Nagel7 when he suggested that it is impossible to experience how one would feel as a bat, since to do so, it would be necessary to be one of them and because the subjective facts of this nature are bey ...
... analysis has prospered to refer to the study of the mental disease worlds. This line culminates in Nagel7 when he suggested that it is impossible to experience how one would feel as a bat, since to do so, it would be necessary to be one of them and because the subjective facts of this nature are bey ...
the emergence of cerebral asymmetries in early human
... findings of a REA/left-hemisphere advantage for speech and LEA/right.-hemisphere advantage for music. However, t.he 2-month-olds showed only the LEA for music; they did not detect the speech syllable change in either ear (see Figure 3). These results suggest an increase in functional maturity of the ...
... findings of a REA/left-hemisphere advantage for speech and LEA/right.-hemisphere advantage for music. However, t.he 2-month-olds showed only the LEA for music; they did not detect the speech syllable change in either ear (see Figure 3). These results suggest an increase in functional maturity of the ...
Visuospatial processing and the right
... 1. Introduction The idea that the two hemispheres of the human brain differ in their psychological functions has long been a central theme in the cognitive neurosciences. Although the concept can be traced back at least to ancient Greece (see Lokhorst, 1982), it was not until the clinical observation ...
... 1. Introduction The idea that the two hemispheres of the human brain differ in their psychological functions has long been a central theme in the cognitive neurosciences. Although the concept can be traced back at least to ancient Greece (see Lokhorst, 1982), it was not until the clinical observation ...
Consciousness, biology and quantum hypotheses
... In the oscillatory ocean of the waking C-T system, specific types of information processing appear to involve phaselocking among task-specific regions of the cortex, thalamus, and satellite regions like the basal ganglia. A hierarchy of waveforms is believed to be involved, ranging from slow oscilla ...
... In the oscillatory ocean of the waking C-T system, specific types of information processing appear to involve phaselocking among task-specific regions of the cortex, thalamus, and satellite regions like the basal ganglia. A hierarchy of waveforms is believed to be involved, ranging from slow oscilla ...
Fixing Functionalism
... quickly leads to the opposite problem, that of liberalism with respect to sentience. A still glass of water, because of Brownian motion, contains large numbers of fluctuating fields. It is not clear, in this view, why the glass should not be densely populated by the coming and going of thoughts and ...
... quickly leads to the opposite problem, that of liberalism with respect to sentience. A still glass of water, because of Brownian motion, contains large numbers of fluctuating fields. It is not clear, in this view, why the glass should not be densely populated by the coming and going of thoughts and ...
Text - Spectrum: Concordia
... nature that would explain not only consciousness and its attributes, but also the phenomenology observed to date in terms of psychological and mystical experiences. The human being experiences different altered states of consciousness, that is, consciousness can be altered in different ways. Stanley ...
... nature that would explain not only consciousness and its attributes, but also the phenomenology observed to date in terms of psychological and mystical experiences. The human being experiences different altered states of consciousness, that is, consciousness can be altered in different ways. Stanley ...
Lecture 6 HoT Handout
... awareness. Experiences are not phenomenally conscious in their own right, but become so only when we are aware of them in a suitable way. In order to be phenomenally conscious, an experience must be the object of another mental state: a higher-order representation. Different versions disagree on the ...
... awareness. Experiences are not phenomenally conscious in their own right, but become so only when we are aware of them in a suitable way. In order to be phenomenally conscious, an experience must be the object of another mental state: a higher-order representation. Different versions disagree on the ...
8 - GCP Dot
... was no longer permitted; events were seen to be predictable from, and governed by, the laws of nature alone. Vestiges of divine intervention persisted at least into the 18th century. Issac Newton asserted that divine intervention was necessary to reestablish the regular order of the planets’ orbits, ...
... was no longer permitted; events were seen to be predictable from, and governed by, the laws of nature alone. Vestiges of divine intervention persisted at least into the 18th century. Issac Newton asserted that divine intervention was necessary to reestablish the regular order of the planets’ orbits, ...
this PDF file - Hsi Lai Journal of Humanistic Buddhism
... Western Cognitive Scientists’ Understanding of Mind Although the interest in the inquiry of mind and its nature in the Western world can be traced back to the ancient time of Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, the inquiry was mainly philosophical or religious in nature. The s ...
... Western Cognitive Scientists’ Understanding of Mind Although the interest in the inquiry of mind and its nature in the Western world can be traced back to the ancient time of Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, the inquiry was mainly philosophical or religious in nature. The s ...
Auditory Hallucinations as a Separate Entitity
... The forebrain plays an important role in many aspects of sound localization behavior1. The Auditory Archistraitum (AAr) and the area surrounding it are also essential for auditory spatial memory and for mediating changes in gaze to and guiding movements toward, remembered auditory stimuli. Consisten ...
... The forebrain plays an important role in many aspects of sound localization behavior1. The Auditory Archistraitum (AAr) and the area surrounding it are also essential for auditory spatial memory and for mediating changes in gaze to and guiding movements toward, remembered auditory stimuli. Consisten ...
Mirror neurons and the 8 parallel consciousnesses
... only perform automatic actions without being aware of it. Bilateral lesion of each of the other 8 areas may cause some deficits, but not enough to prevent consciousness as a whole. For example, bilateral lesion of the medialsuperior temporal cortex causes semantic agnosia(54), that is the inability ...
... only perform automatic actions without being aware of it. Bilateral lesion of each of the other 8 areas may cause some deficits, but not enough to prevent consciousness as a whole. For example, bilateral lesion of the medialsuperior temporal cortex causes semantic agnosia(54), that is the inability ...
Evolutionary Neurotheology - UTK-EECS
... possible, and only certain successions of phenomena), which together constitute a phenomenal world. An adequate scientific theory of consciousness must explain the qualitative character of phenomena as well as the structure of the phenomenal world in which they occur. We must emphasize that phenomen ...
... possible, and only certain successions of phenomena), which together constitute a phenomenal world. An adequate scientific theory of consciousness must explain the qualitative character of phenomena as well as the structure of the phenomenal world in which they occur. We must emphasize that phenomen ...
Do reports of consciousness during cardiac arrest hold
... reasoning and memory formation as well as consciousness from their period of cardiac arrest resuscitation. These vary from images of bright lights and tunnels to the very interesting recollection of actual verified events from their period of resuscitation in which people describe a feeling of separ ...
... reasoning and memory formation as well as consciousness from their period of cardiac arrest resuscitation. These vary from images of bright lights and tunnels to the very interesting recollection of actual verified events from their period of resuscitation in which people describe a feeling of separ ...