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Scoping review on shamanistic trances practices

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
Background Shamanism is a spiritual tradition in which trance practitioners deliberately modify their state of consciousness to seemingly interact with an invisible world to resolve their community members’ problems.
Nolwenn Marie, Yannick Lafon, Aminata Bicego, Charlotte Grégoire, Floriane Rousseaux, Antoine Bioy, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Olivia Gosseries   +7 more
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Introducing Noise Can Lift Sub-Threshold Signals Above the Threshold to Generate Perception: A New Perspective on Consciousness

Applied Sciences
The pursuit of a comprehensive understanding of human consciousness, which includes the subjective experience of perception, is a long-standing endeavor.
Peter Walla
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Learning to Be Conscious [PDF]

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020
Consciousness remains a formidable challenge. Different theories of consciousness have proposed vastly different mechanisms to account for phenomenal experience. Here, appealing to aspects of global workspace theory, higher-order theories, social theories, and predictive processing, we introduce a novel framework: the self-organizing ...
Cleeremans, Axel, Achoui, Dalila, Beauny, Arnaud, Keuninckx, Lars, Martin, Jean-Rémy, Muñoz Moldes, Santiago, Vuillaume, Laurène, De Heering, Adélaïde   +7 more
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The communicative effectiveness of different types of communication strategy [PDF]

, 2003
This study examines compensation strategies (techniques for dealing with knowledge gaps between learner and interlocutor), relates them to synoptic and ectenic learning (Ehrman and Leaver, 2002, 2003), and suggests reasons for the fact that ectenic ...
Bachman, Bialystok, Chen, Cook, Ehrman, Ehrman, Ehrman, Ellis, Faerch, Jeannette Littlemore, Lakoff, Leaver, Levelt, Littlemore, Marrie, McNamara, Oxford, Poulisse, Poulisse, Ungerer   +19 more
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Prognostic Impact of Treatment Modalities, Including Targeted Compartmental Radio‐Immunotherapy, in a Cohort of Neuroblastoma Patients With CNS Metastases at Relapse

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez, Anna Felip‐Badia, Marina Caballero‐Bellon, Nazaret Sanchez‐Sierra, Alicia Castañeda, Moira Garraus, Maite Gorostegui, Margarida Simão‐Rafael, Juan Pablo Muñoz, Marta Perez‐Somarriba, Salvador Mañe, Mariana Cecilia Planells, Sara Perez‐Jaume, Jaume Mora   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subliminal Affect Valence Words Change Conscious Mood Potency but Not Valence: Is This Evidence for Unconscious Valence Affect?

Brain Sciences, 2012
Whether or not affect can be unconscious remains controversial. Research claiming to demonstrate unconscious affect fails to establish clearly unconscious stimulus conditions.
Michael Snodgrass, Linda A. W. Brakel, Howard Shevrin, Jaak Panksepp   +3 more
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Sustainable Community-Based Tourism in Cambodia and Tourists’ Willingness to Pay

ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2020
Community-Based Tourism (CBT) sites are often seen as a tool for poverty alleviation and eradication, especially in Least Developed Countries like Cambodia.
Sabine Müller, Lukas Huck, Jitka Markova   +2 more
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Mental Ownership and Higher Order Thought [PDF]

, 2010
Mental ownership concerns who experiences a mental state. According to David Rosenthal (2005: 342), the proper way to characterize mental ownership is: ‘being conscious of a state as present is being conscious of it as ...
Lane, Timothy, Liang, Caleb
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Environmentally conscious consumption patterns in Hungarian households [PDF]

, 2011
This article provides a comprehensive review of the literature on the theoretical aspects of sustainable consumption. The conditions for consumers’ social responsibility and the formation of environmentally conscious behavior patterns will also be ...
Ajzen I., Ajzen I., Ajzen I., Ajzen I., Gatersleben B., Hofmeister Tóth, Kata Kelemen, Marianna Piskóti, Meffert H., Nagy Sz., Noorman K., Ádám F., Ágnes Hofmeister-Tóth   +12 more
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Mechanisms of parasite‐mediated disruption of brain vessels

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Parasites can affect the blood vessels of the brain, often causing serious neurological problems. This review explains how different parasites interact with and disrupt these vessels, what this means for brain health, and why these processes matter. Understanding these mechanisms may help us develop better ways to prevent or treat brain infections in ...
Leonor Loira, Sílvia Arroz‐Madeira, Cláudio A. Franco, Sara Silva Pereira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source