Effects of mindfulness meditation on conscious and non-conscious components of the mind [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of the present review is to investigate previous studies concerning the effects of meditation and dispositional mindfulness on conscious and implicit or non-conscious attitudes.
Clarici, Andrea +4 more
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Expected Free Energy Formalizes Conflict Underlying Defense in Freudian Psychoanalysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Freud's core interest in the psyche was the dynamic unconscious: that part of the psyche which is unconscious due to conflict (Freud, 1923/1961). Over the course of his career, Freud variously described conflict as an opposition to the discharge of ...
Patrick Connolly
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The Psycho-neurology of Embodiment with Examples from Authentic Movement and Laban Movement Analysis [PDF]
, 2017 This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of the following article: Helen Payne, 'The Psycho-neurology of Embodiment with Examples from Authentic Movement and Laban Movement Analysis', American Journal of Dance Therapy, June 2017.
Payne, Helen
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The affective core of the self: A neuro-archetypical perspective on the foundations of human (and animal) subjectivity [PDF]
, 2017 Psychologists usually considered the "Self" as an object of experience appearing when the individual perceives its existence within the conscious field. In accordance with such a view, the self-representing capacity of the human mind has been related to ...
Alcaro, A +2 more
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Psychoanalysis has its place in modern medicine, and neuropsychoanalysis is here to support it. [PDF]
Croat Med J, 2015 Glasnović A, Babić G, Demarin V.
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Affective Touch Enhances Self-Face Recognition During Multisensory Integration [PDF]
, 2017 Multisensory integration is a powerful mechanism for constructing body awareness and key for the sense of selfhood. Recent evidence has shown that the specialised C tactile modality that gives rise to feelings of pleasant, affective touch, can enhance ...
Filippetti, Maria Laura +3 more
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Brain Sciences, 2012 It is commonly believed that consciousness is a higher brain function. Here we consider the likelihood, based on abundant neuroevolutionary data that lower brain affective phenomenal experiences provide the “energy” for the developmental construction of ...
Mark Solms, Jaak Panksepp
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Jung, Yoga and Affective Neuroscience: Towards a Contemporary Science of the Sacred [PDF]
, 2018 Materialist and fundamentalist reductive ideologies obscure our capacity to directly experience the numinous. Thus, importantly, given the weight of the observable and measurable in orthodox science, and oftentimes a dismissal of both the soul and the ...
Whitney, Leanne
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Homunculus strides again: why ‘information transmitted’ in neuroscience tells us nothing [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose – For half a century, neuroscientists have used Shannon Information Theory to calculate “information transmitted,” a hypothetical measure of how well neurons “discriminate” amongst stimuli.
Nizami, Lance
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Integrative Biological Simulation, Neuropsychology, and AI Safety
, 2019 We describe a biologically-inspired research agenda with parallel tracks aimed at AI and AI safety. The bottom-up component consists of building a sequence of biophysically realistic simulations of simple organisms such as the nematode $Caenorhabditis ...
Hay, Nick J. +2 more
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