Meditation can be conceptualized as a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory training regimes developed for various ends, including the cultivation of well-being and emotional balance. Among these various practices, there are two styles that are commonly studied. One style, focused attention meditation, entails the voluntary focusing of attention on a chosen object. The other st...

Ahmed Abd-Allah, Barry Boehm ([email protected], [email protected]) USC Center for Software Engineering Computer Science Department University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781 Abstract: A persistent problem in software engineering is how to put software systems together out of smaller subsystems: the problem of software composition. The emergence of software architectures ...

To realize fully our human potential is to learn to be aware of, to choose flexibly, and to implement effortlessly an expanding, dynamic range of attentional styles for the optimum allocation of our resources. A fundamental observation is presented in this paper: Attentional styles and brain wave activity are reflected in each other. Attention styles are defined. Attention biases are described ...

Prior research indicates that East Asians are more sensitive to contextual information than Westerners. This article explored aesthetics to examine whether cultural variations were observable in art and photography. Study 1 analyzed traditional artistic styles using archival data in representative museums. Study 2 investigated how contemporary East Asians and Westerners draw landscape pictures ...

INTRODUCTION Cognitive theories of psychopathology have generally proposed that early experiences of childhood abuse and neglect may result in the development of early maladaptive self-schemas. Maladaptive core schemas are central in the development and maintenance of psychological symptoms in a schema-focused approach. Psychosocial dysfunction in individuals with psychological problems has bee...

Although models of emotion have focused on the relationship between anger and approach motivation associated with aggression, anger is also related to withdrawal motivation. Anger-out and anger-in styles are associated with psychopathology and may disrupt the control of attention within the context of negatively valenced information. The present study used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) ...

Behavioral and neuroimaging findings indicate that distinct cognitive and neural processes underlie solving problems with sudden insight. Moreover, people with less focused attention sometimes perform better on tests of insight and creative problem solving. However, it remains unclear whether different states of attention, within individuals, influence the likelihood of solving problems with in...

The study aimed to analyze the content of studies that dealt with "thinking styles" in Arab Educational Information Network (Shamaa). used content-based analysis, and sample covered (50) studies. A tool was developed for data collection. results revealed there a growth thinking styles, but this fluctuating. Most (96%) were published journals, (66%) by single researchers, (57.53%) publications m...