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Anxiety, Perception, and Control of Heart Rate

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1984
8 women and 8 men took Cattell's IPAT-anxiety questionnaire and later McFarland's test of ability to perceive heart activity. The second test involved subjects' tracking their own heart rates, then they enrolled in an EKG biofeedback session to evaluate ability to increase and decrease heart rate from subjects' resting baselines.
DE PASCALIS, Vilfredo, ALBERTI M. L, PANDOLFO R.   +2 more
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Perception as controlled hallucination

Analytic Philosophy, 2022
Abstract“Perception is controlled hallucination,” according to proponents of predictive processing accounts of vision. I say they are right that something like this is a consequence of their view but wrong in how they have pursued the idea. The focus of my counterproposal is the causal theory of perception, which I develop in terms of a productive ...
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Perceptions of Control in Adults with Epilepsy

Epilepsia, 1994
Summary: That psychosocial problems are extant in epilepsy is evidenced by a suicide rate among epileptic persons five times that of the general population and an unemployment rate estimated to be more than twice that of the population as a whole. External perceptions of control secondary to repeated episodes of seizure activity that generalize to the
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Conception, perception and the control of action

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2002
Reply to MajidThe difference between conception and perception is murky. When I perceive an object to lie to the right of the sagittal plane of my head, do I necessarily conceive it to occupy that position in that frame of reference? Is it possible that I perceive it in that frame but conceive of it in another frame?
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Cognitive Controls and Person Perception

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1973
The Embedded-figures Test (EFT) and the Rod-and-frame Test (RFT) were used as measures of the field-dependence-field-independence cognitive control dimension in a test of the hypothesis that field-independence would be associated with greater accuracy in the discrimination of affective expression and implied meanings.
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Locus of Control and Perceptions of Human Aggression

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1992
116 college students were given a locus of control scale and a measure of misconceptions about human aggression. A negative correlation of -.52 indicated that as feelings of mastery and control increased, belief in a human propensity for aggression decreased.
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Controlling the uncontrollable: Effects of stress on illusory perceptions of controllability.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1992
Individuals' failure to exercise actual control over an event might be compensated for by trying to bolster a generalized, subjective sense of control. Control might then be sought by undertaking acts the effect of which on the environment is illusory. This observation led to the hypothesis that stress, which undermines persons' sense of control, would
N, Friedland, G, Keinan, Y, Regev
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Cardiac perception and cardiac control

Biofeedback and Self-Regulation, 1977
The evidence regarding specific cardiac perception and discrimination, and its relationship to voluntary cardiac control, is critically reviewed. Studies are considered in three sections, depending on the method used to assess cardiac perception: questionnaire assessment, discrimination procedures, and heartbeat tracking.
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Perception as Controlled Hallucination

2021
In this chapter, I will deal with the problem of perception from a the point of view of cognitive semiotics. I will try to underline the crucial role of imagination, claiming that perception is a form of “controlled hallucination” (Koenderink 2010; Clark 2016), where, by “controlled hallucination”, I mean the product of the imagination controlled by ...
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Current Concepts of Children’s Perceptions of Control

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1991
Abstract Beliefs about control have been identified as an important aspect of the occupational therapy evaluation process because of their potential influence over the course of action chosen. This paper reviews the current status of research and theory in this area as it relates to children. Issues addressed include the drawbacks of the
W J, Coster, L E, Jaffe
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