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Better Vision Through Manipulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles - that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less independent.
Fitzpatrick, Paul, Metta, Giorgio
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OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE, PURE BEING AND METAPHYSICS

open access: yesAntropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2016
Purpose. The author will show that metaphysical concepts and the concepts of empirical sciences derive from experience. The only difference is that metaphysical concepts derive from unusual experience, i.e.
I. V. Karivets
doaj   +1 more source

Contributions of Body-Orientation to Mental Ball Dropping Task During Out-of-Body Experiences

open access: yesFrontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2022
Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) provide fascinating insights into our understanding of bodily self-consciousness and the workings of the brain. Studies that examined individuals with brain lesions reported that OBEs are generally characterized by ...
Ege Tekgün, Burak Erdeniz
doaj   +1 more source

Rating the Persuasiveness of Empirical Evidence for the Survival of Consciousness After Bodily Death: A cross-sectional study

open access: yesJournal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2023
Objective. Throughout history and across all cultures, many people have believed in some form of afterlife. Recent surveys show that most people worldwide believe they will survive after bodily death.
Helane Wahbeh   +2 more
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Autoscopic Space: Re-thinking the Limits Between Self and Self-Image [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
open access journalAn experimental installation project of my own making, the diplorasis, aims to re-think the human sensorium by considering the bodily perceptual boundaries that are induced by visual media processes.
Themistokleous, George
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Enabling pervasive computing with smart phones [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The authors discuss their experience with a number of mobile telephony projects carried out in the context of the European Union Information Society Technologies research program, which aims to develop mobile information services.
Maglavera, Stavroula   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Brief guided imagery and body scanning interventions reduce food cravings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
mindfulness cognition food intrusive thoughts acceptance eatingElaborated Intrusion (EI) Theory proposes that cravings occur when involuntary thoughts about food are elaborated; a key part of elaboration is affectively-charged imagery.
Andrade, J   +4 more
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Subjective perceptions of load carriage on the head and back in Xhosa women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The purpose of this study was to compare the subjective perceptual responses to both head-loading and back-loading in a group of Xhosa women. Thirty two women were divided into three groups based on their experience of head-loading and walked on a ...
Cooke, Carlton   +3 more
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Drift and ownership towards a distant virtual body

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
In body ownership illusions participants feel that a mannequin or virtual body (VB) is their own. Earlier results suggest that body ownership over a body seen from behind in extra-personal space is possible when the surrogate body is visually stroked and
Ausias ePomes, Mel eSlater
doaj   +1 more source

Disturbances in body ownership in schizophrenia: evidence from the rubber hand illusion and case study of a spontaneous out-of-body experience. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
A weakened sense of self may contribute to psychotic experiences. Body ownership, one component of self-awareness, can be studied with the rubber hand illusion (RHI).
Katharine N Thakkar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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