In everyday vision, attention and awareness are hand in glove and almost impossible to tell apart. Recent work has exploited more contrived situations that allow these psychologically defined processes to be dissociated, providing insights into their respective neurophysiological correlates.

The aim of this study was to investigate changes in the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and moods before and after participation in a Mindfulness Art Therapy Short version (MATS). The study design was non-randomized controlled trial in intervention study. Participants were 10 Japanese patients with advanced cancer. They received the MATS in one session, which consisted of mindfulness practices a...

How to effectively collect diverse data of spontaneous speech and to upgrade various speech processing techniques is a serious issue. In this paper, we introduce our proposed method “SEN method”, which aims to collect psychologically and acoustically diverse acted speech effectively with naturalness. We created detailed directions, on the basis of various real-life scenarios, consulting with a ...

An integrated statement is made concerning the semantic status of nodes in a propositional semantic network, claiming that such nodes represent only in-tensions. Within the network, the only reference to extensionality is via a mechanism to assert that two intensions have the same extension in some world. This framework is employed in three application problems to illustrate the nature of its s...

Hume's Treatise of Human Nature is not only a canonical text philosophy, but also pioneering work psychology, anticipating many findings modern behavioural economics. According to theory mind, the concept rationality does apply choices or moral judgements. But in his justice, Hume explains preference reversals between smaller-sooner and larger-later options terms farsighted ‘true’ preferences p...

was given to the rates of psychologically-based (anticipatory) nausea and emesis. Results indicated that 23% of patients experienced anticipatory nausea and the majority reported that this occurred before at least half of the previous treatment cycles. Both emetic challenge of chemotherapy regimen and younger age were linked to this anticipatory effect. The data clearly indicated that nausea an...

According to hedonic approaches to psychological health, healthy individuals should pursue pleasant and avoid unpleasant emotions. According to instrumental approaches, however, healthy individuals should pursue useful and avoid harmful emotions, whether pleasant or unpleasant. We sought to reconcile these approaches by distinguishing between preferences for emotions that are aggregated across ...