In this paper we examine whether experience with spatial metaphors for time has an influence on people's representation of time. In particular we ask whether spatio-temporal metaphors can have both chronic and immediate effects on temporal thinking. In Study 1, we examine the prevalence of ego-moving representations for time in Mandarin speakers, English speakers, and Mandarin-English (ME) bili...

Intuitively it has seemed to many that our concepts conscious state and conscious creature are sharp rather than vague, that they can have no borderline cases. On the other hand, many who take conscious states to be identical to, or realized by, complex physical states are committed to the vagueness of those concepts. In the paper I argue that conscious state and conscious creature are sharp by...

In a recent debate, the views that top-down attention is necessary for consciousness (Cohen et al., 2012a,b) and that consciousness is independent of top-down attention (Tsuchiya et al., 2012) have clashed. Here, we list the overlooked or ignored arguments that should be considered before deciding that consciousness is inevitably the result of attention. The issue of relation of bottom-up atten...

Imagia. Towards a neurocognitive theory of image (Francuz, 2013) defines art perception as synthesis between acts and visual imagination limited by attentional constraints. The majority empirical evidence the author referred to in book focuses on processing, attention, aesthetic judgements. Nevertheless, other mechanisms involved subjective experience formation undoubtedly also plays role art. ...

Patriotism can be valuable only when a person makes certain conscious decisions and takes concrete active actions. Thus, patriotism, like other values, realized through awareness of its prescriptive power acceptance by as principle activity. The disclosure the essence patriotism Ivan Ilyin it possible to formulate such moral principles respect, love pride in one’s motherland. In addition, forms...

This article approaches the play Lazzaro (1948), one of first works by playwright Francisco Pereira da Silva, born in Piaui, Brazil, which he uses genre intermezzo interlaid an essentially tragic work, order to discuss its dramatic function it. The here analyzed presents many connections with tragedy Electra versions both Sophocles and Euripides. But while Greek plays Orestes is not instrument ...

BACKGROUND Visual fixation plays a key role in the differentiation between vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness (VS/UWS) syndrome and minimally conscious state (MCS). However, the use of different stimuli changes the frequency of visual fixation occured in patients, thereby possibly affecting the accuracy of the diagnosis. In order to establish a standardized assessment of visual fixation ...

Detecting signs of learning in persons diagnosed to be in a post-coma vegetative state and minimally conscious state (MCS) may modify their diagnosis. We report the case of a 65-year-old female in a vegetative state. We used microswitch-based technology that is based on patient response to eye-blinking. We followed an ABABCB design, in which A represented baseline periods, B intervention period...

PURPOSE We describe the case of a subject in a post-traumatic Minimally Conscious State (MCS) who retrieved full interaction with the environment after midazolam infusion. We studied EEG correlates of the "awakening reaction" in the different domains of frequency, time and cortical topography, along with the intrinsic connectivity within both the task-positive and the linguistic network. METH...