Development and self-regulatory structures of the mind

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dante Cicchetti ◽  
Don Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Dynamics ◽  
Neural Development ◽  
Neural Plasticity ◽  
Chaotic Dynamics ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Developmental Systems ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
The Mind

AbstractFrom their early roots in embryology, parallels are drawn between the major psychological and biological foci of organismic theories. Neural plasticity and concepts of causality in developmental systems are discussed. Because the nature of the developmental process necessitates addressing the nonlinear dynamics of complex systems, it is theorized that causal explanations in neural development, just as is the case with psychological processes, should emphasize the individual's active strivings for self-organization as the major determinant of ontogenesis. Whether or not they cohere to form an integrated self, it is hypothesized that the homeostatic, self-regulatory structures of the mind are the major stabilities in the chaotic dynamics of psychological and neural development.

Does Enhancing Mind Perception Affect Conspiracy Belief?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Noguera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Mind Perception ◽  
Mixed Anova ◽  
Interaction Term ◽  
The Mind

This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a novel mind perception manipulation. Mind perception is currently theorized to be an essential aspect of a number of human social psychological processes. Thus, a successful manipulation would allow for the causal study of those processes. This manipulation was created in an attempt to explore the downstream impact of mind perception on the endorsement of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are steadily becoming more and more prominent in social discourse. Endorsement of conspiracy theories are beginning to show real world ramifications such as a danger to human health (e.g., in the anti-vaccination movement). A sample of college students (valid N = 53) from a large rural institution in the southeastern United States participated for course credit. These participants completed a mind perception pretest, were randomly assigned to either the manipulation in question (in which participants are asked to consider the ‘mind’ of several targets and write their thoughts about them) or the control condition, and then they completed a posttest. The mixed ANOVA revealed that the interaction term between Time and Condition was not significant. Because the manipulation did not work, other analyses were aborted, in accord with the pre-registration. My Discussion focuses on the procedures and potential shortcomings of this manipulation, in an effort to lay the groundwork for a successful one.

scholarly journals If horses entrain, don’t entirely reject vocal learning: An experience-based vocal learning hypothesis

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adena Schachner
Keyword(s):  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Neural Development ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Vocal Learning ◽  
Genetic Change ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Learning Hypothesis

Bregman and colleagues describe methods for testing whether horses entrain their actions to an auditory beat. If horses can entrain, does this necessarily imply that there is no causal relationship between vocal learning and entrainment? I propose an alternative way in which vocal learning may relate to entrainment – one that is consistent with entrainment in some vocal non-learning species. Due to engaging in the developmental process of vocal learning, there may be early experiences common to vocal learners, but rare in vocal non-learning species. It is possible that it is these experiences that are critical for entrainment – not vocal learning itself, nor related genes. These experiences may result in critical changes in neural development, leading to the development of cognitive mechanisms necessary for both vocal learning and entrainment. This hypothesis changes the causal story from one of genetic change to one of changes in experience, and from a focus on evolution to a focus on individual ontogeny. Thus, if horses can entrain, we should not immediately reject the idea of a relationship between vocal learning and entrainment: First, we should consider whether some unusual aspect of the horses’ experience effectively replicates the unusual experiences of vocal learning animals.

scholarly journals Investigation of the Effect of Additive White Noise on the Dynamics of Contact Interaction of the Beam Structure

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ольга Салтыкова ◽  
Olga Saltykova ◽  
Александр Кречин ◽  
Alexander Krechin
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Dynamics ◽  
White Noise ◽  
Contact Interaction ◽  
Geometric Nonlinearity ◽  
Chaotic Dynamics ◽  
Kutta Method ◽  
Beam Structure ◽  
Runge Kutta Method ◽  
Additive White Noise ◽  
The Finite Difference Method

The purpose of this work is to study and scientific visualization the effect of additive white noise on the nonlinear dynamics of beam structure contact interaction, where beams obey the kinematic hypotheses of the first and second approximation. When constructing a mathematical model, geometric nonlinearity according to the T. von Karman model and constructive nonlinearity are taken into account. The beam structure is under the influence of an external alternating load, as well as in the field of additive white noise. The chaotic dynamics and synchronization of the contact interaction of two beams is investigated. The resulting system of partial differential equations is reduced to a Cauchy problem by the finite difference method and then solved by the fourth order Runge-Kutta method.

scholarly journals In vivo regulation of cell death by embryonic (pro)insulin and the insulin receptor during early retinal neurogenesis

Development ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 127 (8) ◽  
pp. 1641-1649
Author(s):  
B. Diaz ◽  
J. Serna ◽  
F. De Pablo ◽  
E.J. de la Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Embryonic Development ◽  
Insulin Receptor ◽  
Neural Development ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Neuronal Cell Death ◽  
Neuronal Cell ◽  
In Ovo ◽  
Retinal Neurogenesis

Programmed cell death is an established developmental process in the nervous system. Whereas the regulation and the developmental role of neuronal cell death have been widely demonstrated, the relevance of cell death during early neurogenesis, the cells affected and the identity of regulatory local growth factors remain poorly characterized. We have previously described specific in vivo patterns of apoptosis during early retinal neurogenesis, and that exogenous insulin acts as survival factor (Diaz, B., Pimentel, B., De Pablo, F. and de la Rosa, E. J. (1999) Eur. J. Neurosci. 11, 1624–1632). Proinsulin mRNA was found to be expressed broadly in the early embryonic chick retina, and decreased later between days 6 and 8 of embryonic development, when there was increased expression of insulin-like growth factor I mRNA, absent or very scarce at earlier stages. Consequently, we studied whether proinsulin and/or insulin ((pro)insulin) action in prevention of cell death has physiological relevance during early neural development. In ovo treatment at day 2 of embryonic development with specific antibodies against (pro)insulin or the insulin receptor induced apoptosis in the neuroretina. The distribution of apoptotic cells two days after the blockade was similar to naturally occurring cell death, as visualized by TdT-mediated dUTP nick end labeling. The apoptosis induced by the insulin receptor blockade preferentially affected to the Islet1/2 positive cells, that is, the differentiated retinal ganglion cells. In parallel, the insulin survival effect on cultured retinas correlated with the activation of Akt to a greater extent than with the activation of MAP kinase. These results suggest that the physiological cell death occurring in early stages of retinal development is regulated by locally produced (pro)insulin through the activation of the Akt survival pathway.

Compartment-cluster modeling of uncertainties according to determinism

10.12737/5520 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-80
Author(s):  
Бурыкин ◽  
Yu. Burykin ◽  
Даянова ◽  
D. Dayanova ◽  
Козупица ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Chaotic Dynamics ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Test Model ◽  
Dynamics Modeling ◽  
Cluster Modeling ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Human Movements ◽  
The Neural Networks ◽  
The Brain

Transition from determinism to stochastic sand further to chaos (self-organization) in the study of biomechanical systems leads to the problem of chaotic dynamics modeling of a post- ural tremor. In general, there is a problem of identifying the voluntary human movements. In other words biophysics of complex systems has approached the global challenges of voluntary and involuntary performance of any motor functions. The possibility of modeling these processes qualitatively and quantitativelyisdiscussed. Specific models demonstrate the effectiveness of the compartment-cluster modeling of biosystems and possibilities of controlof such models from the neural networks of the brain. Comparative analysis of the simulated and real recorded signals has shown a high consistent dynamics of simulated and real signals of complex biological systems. In particular, changes in tremor parameters can be described by the change in quasi-attractors which essentially depend on the mental state of a person. In experiments it is shown in the form of sight effects, which are considered in the report as a test model on experimental data.

Possibilities of stochastic processing of system parameters with chaotic dynamics

10.12737/5519 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Берестин ◽  
D. Berestin ◽  
Попов ◽  
Yuriy Popov ◽  
Вохмина ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Space ◽  
General Population ◽  
Chaotic Dynamics ◽  
Estimation Method ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Wilcoxon Test ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Postural Tremor ◽  
System Parameters ◽  
Stochastic Processing

The paper presents the first attempt to combine methods of stochastics (mathematical statistics) and methods of theory of chaos and self-organization for studying such complex (chaotic) processes as postural tremor. It was established that when re-registering tremor in each subject by n=15 or n=30 obtained tremorograms do not exhibit normal distribution, and non-parametric distributions show distinctions at pairwise comparison on Wilcoxon test (only 2 or 3 pairs from 210 may belong to the same general population). Static physical load sharply changes this picture and the number of such ("similar") pairs increases. The estimation method for effect of a load on tremor is proposed. Simultaneously, within calculating quasi-attractors there is a clear picture of division of chaotic dynamics of tremor parameters with load and without load. Prospects of a new method application in physiological measurements are discussed. Limited method of stochas- tics in description of complexity is underlined, and necessity of calculation quasi-attractor´s parameters in phase space of state is proved.

Chaotic Vibrations of Sector-Type Spherical Shells

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Krysko ◽  
J. Awrejcewicz ◽  
I. V. Papkova
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Dynamics ◽  
Chaotic Dynamics ◽  
Static Stability ◽  
Control Parameters ◽  
Spherical Shells ◽  
Spherical Cap ◽  
Chaotic Vibrations ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Sector Type ◽  
Mechanical Objects

In this work, chaotic vibrations of shallow sector-type spherical shells are studied. A sector-type shallow shell is understood as a shell defined by a sector with associated boundary conditions and obtained by cutting a spherical shell for a given angle θk, or it is a sector of a shallow spherical cap associated with the mentioned angle. Both static stability and complex nonlinear dynamics of the mentioned mechanical objects subjected to transversal uniformly distributed sign-changeable load are analyzed, and the so-called vibration charts and scales regarding the chosen control parameters are reported. In particular, scenarios of transition from regular to chaotic dynamics of the mentioned shells are investigated. A novel method to control chaotic dynamics of the studied flexible spherical shells driven by transversal sign-changeable load via synchronized action of the sign-changeable antitorque is proposed and applied. All investigations are carried out within the fields of qualitative theory of differential equations and nonlinear dynamics.

scholarly journals How neuroscience can inform the study of individual differences in cognitive abilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis J. McFarland
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Executive Control ◽  
Neural Plasticity ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Distributed Networks ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
General Ability ◽  
Speed Of Information Processing ◽  
Mental Abilities

AbstractTheories of human mental abilities should be consistent with what is known in neuroscience. Currently, tests of human mental abilities are modeled by cognitive constructs such as attention, working memory, and speed of information processing. These constructs are in turn related to a single general ability. However, brains are very complex systems and whether most of the variability between the operations of different brains can be ascribed to a single factor is questionable. Research in neuroscience suggests that psychological processes such as perception, attention, decision, and executive control are emergent properties of interacting distributed networks. The modules that make up these networks use similar computational processes that involve multiple forms of neural plasticity, each having different time constants. Accordingly, these networks might best be characterized in terms of the information they process rather than in terms of abstract psychological processes such as working memory and executive control.

The Dialectical Phenomena and Processes of the Mind

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry M. Vyner
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Functional Identity ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Central Elements ◽  
Group A ◽  
Considerable Length ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Do So

For the last 14 years, the author has been interviewing Tibetan lamas at considerable length about their experiences of their own mind in meditation for the purposes of: 1) developing a formal descriptive science of the phenomena that appear in the stream of consciousness; and 2) using that descriptive science to describe the defining characteristics of the healthy human mind. This paper will present the central elements of the descriptive science of the stream of consciousness that has been generated by these interviews. It will do so as a means of making the case that the psychological processes that appear in the stream of consciousness have, as a group, a coherent functional identity. This paper will also present representative excerpts from the interviews from which the descriptive science has been derived.

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