The disturbance of somatosensory perception and bodily experiences, including somatosensory hallucinations, are main features of the coenaesthesia sub-syndrome of schizophrenia. We used functional MRI to study a coenaesthesia patient with rapidly fluctuating painful somatosensory hallucinatory perceptions. Transient brain activations accompanying hallucinations were similar to the pattern elici...

The essay examines, with special reference to smallpox, the perception and interpretation of disease in pre-colonial Dahomey, present-day Republic of Benin. Because disease is seen primarily as a punishment from the gods and not just as a medical problem or a bodily disorder, traditional cult priests play a leading role in making diagnoses and prescribing remedies, mostly based on medicinal pla...

Recent research suggests that bodily signals and interoception are strongly related to our sense of time. Mindfulness meditators train to be aware of their body states and therefore could be more accurate at interval timing. In this study, n = 22 experienced mindfulness meditators and n = 22 matched controls performed both, an acoustic and a visual duration reproduction task of 8, 14, and 20 s ...

Abstract When perception is made the subject of philosophy, it primarily understood as pre-theoretical sensual knowledge, and question its truth content becomes focus attention. In contrast, approaches that fall within philosophy embodiment quite rightly point out bodily anchored closely linked to interests in action. The primacy knowledge therefore substituted by a praxis. This article aims bl...

The perception of pain is highly complex, and requires neural integration from a variety of routes. Spinal pathways to the amygdala, hypothalamus, reticular formation, medial thalamic nuclei, and limbic cortical structures transmit information involved arousal, bodily regulation, and emotional responses. Other, albeit indirect, pathways can carry signals to these same structures, for example, f...

Tempo perception has been studied using many different methodologies in trying to isolate the motion patterns of a conductor in experimental stimuli. In doing so, the context of conducting has been ignored including secondary bodily motion, expression and communication from the conductor, and conducting gestures outside of the realm of tempo control. The aim of this study is to test the ability...

BACKGROUND The observation of conspecifics influences our bodily perceptions and actions: Contagious yawning, contagious itching, or empathy for pain, are all examples of mechanisms based on resonance between our own body and others. While there is evidence for the involvement of the mirror neuron system in the processing of motor, auditory and tactile information, it has not yet been associate...

While the cognitive disturbances that frequently follow severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are relatively well understood, the ways in which these affect the psychosocial functioning of people with TBI are yet to be determined and have thus received little attention in treatment research. Growing evidence indicates that a significant proportion of individuals with TBI demonstrate an inability ...

We advance a novel computational model that characterizes formally the ways we perceive or misperceive bodily symptoms, in context of panic attacks. The is grounded within formal framework Active Inference, which considers top-down prediction and attention dynamics as key to perceptual inference action selection. In series simulations, use reproduce facets adaptive maladaptive symptom perceptio...

This study shall analyse the statutory provisions on bodily injuries or batteries with a special outlook difficulties caused by pandemic. The formulates forensic recommendations based Hungarian national standard and knowledge of criminal procedure analyzes methodology investigation harm exclusively from point view. It approaches detection crime practical empirical view, as well legal introduce ...