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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Damasio"”.
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Spinoza’s theory of emotion in relation to Vygotsky’s psychology and Damasio’s neuroscience
… the Spinozist theory of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. Following Vygotsky’s ‘testing’ of Spinoza’s theory against the Jamesian theory of emotion I ‘test’ Spinoza’s theory in the light of Damasio’s interpretation, for the purpose intended by Vygotsky. In the course of this ‘methodological test’ …
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The prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and an investigation of behavioural and executive functioning outcomes (among those who have sustained TBIs) in a sample of male young offenders
… & Benton, 2004; S. Anderson, Bechara, Damasio, Tranel, & Damasio, 1999). The onset of antisocial behaviour post-TBI may not be surprising given the vulnerability of the frontal lobes in sustaining such an injury. Considering the strong overlap between the behaviour of offenders and the …
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Emotional Behavior in Subclinical Psychopathy
… as measured by the Iowa Gambling Task (Bechara, Damasio, Damasio & Anderson, 1994) suggesting that at subclinical levels, psychopathic personality traits have a negligible influence on an individual’s use of somatic markers to guide behavior.</p>
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Following Mild Head Injury: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Physiological Underarousal and Symptoms of Anxiety
… and disrupt emotional regulation (Bechara, Damasio, & Damasio, 2000; Fisher, Rushby, McDonald, Parks, & Piguet, 2015; Pardini, Krueger, Raymont, & Grafman, 2010). Diminished levels of visceral feedback leaves one at a disadvantage for predicting, anticipating and reacting to environmental …
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Artificial Identity: Representations of Robots and Cyborgs in Contemporary Anglo-American Science Fiction Films
… of neurologist and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio are applied, which explore both the biological means by which emotional (rather than solely physical) feelings are generated in humans, and the capacity of humans to simulate emotion. As Damasio argues that many of the central operations of …
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Affect, Literature and the Medical Encounter
… as described by Massumi, Stern, Sointu, Damasio and Frank, employs the concepts of "the virtual", embodiment, and "vitality" in examining the dynamics, and enhanced potential for healing, of the clinical consultation. Seen through the lens of affect theory, novelists and poets such as …
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Quintessence of Dust: Cognitive Neuroscience and an Actor's Process
… supported by the work of John Searle and Antonio Damasio. The phenomenal feeling of character-model control is discussed and supported by the work of Thomas Metzinger. The paper also considers our relative understanding of mirror neurons and specifically their function in relation to …
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A machine’s idea of sight: the technico-sensory divide in the human use of imaging devices
… by Ramachandran, Sacks Nicolelis and Damasio. It examines, in two paths, the technical developments that seek to alter or enhance our ways of looking and seeing. The first path is an assessment of ways of looking with optics-based cameras that includes how cameras might be set to look, …
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What are the experiences of the two-year-olds in the emotional environment in early childhood education and care settings that offer funded places?
… concepts such as the consciousness of emotions (Damasio, 1999), attachment theory (Kinreich et al., 2017), neuroscience (Tham et al., 2019) and good practice guidelines (Harrison et al., 2022). It was taken from a phenomenological (Sokolowski, 2000) and praxeological (Pascal and Bertram, 2012) …
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Relationship between nurse's emotional intelligence, communication competency and organizational commitment
… 업무를 수행하는 과정에서 올바른 방향을 제시해 주고, 의사결정에 도움을 주므로(Damasio, 1996) 중요하다. 국내외 연구를 통해 감성지능은 중요한 개인적 기술과 대인관계 기술로 조직의 업무성과를 높여 주는 것으로 나타났음에도 불구하고 간호사를 대상으로 한 연구는 구체적으로 이루어지지 않고 있다. 본 연구는 2009년 11월 01일부터 12월 20일까지 경기도에 위치한 300병상 이상인 5개 종합병원에 근무하는 간호사 365명을 최종 분석 대상으로 하였다. 감성지능 측정도구는 Wong & Law(2002)가 개발한 …
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Il soggetto, il cervello e l’inconscio.Diritto e neuroscienze alla luce della psicoanalisi
… generale. Tra questi approcci spicca quello di Damasio, secondo il quale sarebbe finalmente possibile ricondurre il dualismo metafisico di matrice cartesiana ad un radicale monismo materialistico, in una perfetta coincidenza tra “anima” e cervello. A questa prospettiva, che ad oggi non è ancora …
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The elusive digital frame and the elasticity of time in painting
… Gidal and recent neuroscientific work by Antonio Damasio, investigating vision and consciousness. This material is used in conjunction with observations from experimental and expanded film works as they deconstruct aspects of subjective temporality and visual perception.
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A systematic exploration of perceptual and semantic differences in category-specific object-processing using magnetoencephalography
… supporting the convergence zone hypothesis (Damasio, 1989). Taken together, these findings indicate the utility of MEG in exploring the time-course of object processing, isolating early perceptual and later semantic effects within the brain.
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An interdisciplinary approach to belief formation and resistance to change
… understand possible mechanisms at play, Antonio Damasio's definitions of emotion and feeling, and his somatic marker hypothesis, are proffered as a solid foundation for examining how emotion and feelings interact with the numerous influences on beliefs and how they contribute to feelings being …
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Die supramodale Verarbeitung individueller Konzepte am Beispiel menschlicher Stimmen und visuell präsentierter Comicfiguren : eine fMRT-Studie der Temporallappen
… Annahmen der Konvergenzzonentheorie von A. R. Damasio scheint die spezifische Funktion dieses rostral gerichteten Verarbeitungsweges aus der sukzessiven Kombination immer mehr sensomotorischer Merkmale von Objekten zu bestehen. Da bekannte individuelle Konzepte eine besonders hohe Anzahl von …
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Traumatic bodies and diasporic disaffection: a study of Iranian American literature in English
… of scholars including Sigmund Freud, Antonio Damasio, Elaine Scarry, Slavoj Žižek, Iris Marion Young, Gilles Deleuze, Bisel Van der Kolk, and a number of trauma theorists. Using the case of Iran as a modern state, I study the impacts that experiences of pernicious maximum social, economic, …
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A Mixed Methods Investigation of Foreign Language Anxiety and Anxiety-Reducing Strategies in the Saudi Context
… a full understanding of the learning process (Damasio, 2006; Young, 1999). Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope (1986) conceptualized Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) as a “distinct complex of self-perceptions, beliefs, feelings, and behaviours related to classroom learning arising from the uniqueness of …
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The role of extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs) in T lymphocytes
The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of the MAP kinases ERK1/2 in naïve and effector CD8 T lymphocytes. Initial experiments showed that inhibition of ERK1/2 activation impaired protein synthesis and reduced cell growth and proliferation of T cell antigen receptor (TCR) stimulated naïve …
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Harmony in Time: Memory, Consciousness, and Expectation in Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata, Op. 53
Harmonic expectations in Western tonal music are formed throughout an individual's lifetime, created by the encounter of commonly recurring patterns of relationships of chords within music. The recognition and identification of these patterns, particularly when the anticipated patterns are denied, …
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The Sensible Reason
… on the contributions of thinkers such as Antonio Damasio and Robert Solomon, it is argued that emotions possess an internal logic that can be analyzed and evaluated, and that their role in decision-making has been underestimated. This chapter also introduces the concept of sensible reason, a type …
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