Self-ascription of a property is said to be immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person if and only if one cannot be mistaken about the person who instantiates the property when one has gained information about the property in the appropriate way (although one can be mistaken about the property one ascribes to oneself) (Evans, 1982). For instance, if I think that I am...

Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious emotional experiences. Here we reveal maps of bodily sensations associated with different emotions using a unique topographical self-report method. In five experiments, participants (n = 701) were shown two silhouettes of bodies alongside emotional words, stories, movies, or facial expressions...

In this paper, we investigate (and extend) Ripley's circumference method to correct bias of density estimation of edges (or frontiers) of regions. The idea of the method was theoretical and difficult to implement. We provide a simple technique based of properties of Gaussian kernels-to compute efficiently weights to correct border bias on frontiers of the region of interest, with an automatic s...

Abstract As most philosophers recognize, the body’s central role in touch differs from it plays other sense modalities. Any account of must then explain pivotal nature involvement touch. Unlike accounts touch, this paper argues that centrality is not phenomenological or experiential: body felt any special way tactile experiences. Building on Aristotle’s De Anima, I argue because medium percepti...

Background In many countries worldwide, heavy drinking can cause harm not only to drinkers but also to those around them. Objective To examine the prevalence and predictors of secondhand effects of alcohol use among students in Vietnam. Design In this cross-sectional study, a multistage sampling strategy was used to select 6,011 students (from the first to final study year) of 12 universities/f...

Trauma is classified as bodily injury severe enough to pose a threat to life or to individual parts of the body such as a limb or an organ [3,4]. Trauma remains a national and worldwide public health problem and is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, especially among previously healthy, productive young people and among males in particular [3]. The majority of trauma care is carried out...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the reports and factors associated with violence against women. METHOD this was a cross-sectional, exploratory and analytical study with information about the cases of reported violence, extracted from the Civil Police Report Bulletin, in a mid-sized city in Minas Gerais, Brazil. RESULTS out of the 7,487 reports of violence against women, it was found that 44.6% of the ...

BACKGROUND During the last few decades, focus of rehabilitation outcome has been redirected to the lifetime monitoring of quality of life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in quality of life perceptions between participants with spinal cord injury and participants of typical population. METHODS This cross-sectional controlled study of 100 adults aged 18-65 years wa...