scholarly journals Imagistic Imagining Part II

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-94
Author(s):  
Peter Langland-Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Imagery ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Hybrid View ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter argues that I-imaginings (viz., episodes of thought involving mental imagery) should be conceived of as hybrid states, involving both a mental image and a non-imagistic mental state of some kind. A proposal is then developed for how to understand the relationship between the image and non-imagistic element within I-imaginings, with images serving to predicate properties of an object determined by the non-imagistic element. Within the terms of this account, we can see how some I-imaginings are simply image-involving judgments (what I call JIGs), image-involving desires (DIGs), or image-involving decisions (DECs). Moreover, in some cases, these JIGs, DIGs, and DECs will also be cases of elaborated, rich, epistemically safe thought about the merely possible, fantastical or unreal—and so also constitute cases of A-imagining. In addition, some of these A-imaginings are what are colloquially known as “daydreams.” The chapter closes by responding to worries that the hybrid view proposed here requires an untenable mixture of cognitive representational formats.

Dehumanization and Mentalizing Animals

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.J. Kasperbauer
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mental State Attribution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Phenomenal States

This chapter applies the psychological account from chapter 3 on how we rank human beings above other animals, to the particular case of using mental states to assign animals moral status. Experiments on the psychology of mental state attribution are discussed, focusing on their implications for human moral psychology. The chapter argues that attributions of phenomenal states, like emotions, drive our assignments of moral status. It also describes how this is significantly impacted by the process of dehumanization. Psychological research on anthropocentrism and using animals as food and as companions is discussed in order to illuminate the relationship between dehumanization and mental state attribution.

scholarly journals Mental imagery: pulling the plug on perceptualism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Cavedon-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Imagery ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Perceptual State ◽  
Perceptual Disorders ◽  
Whole Class ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWhat is the relationship between perception and mental imagery? I aim to eliminate an answer that I call perceptualism about mental imagery. Strong perceptualism, defended by Bence Nanay, predictive processing theorists, and several others, claims that imagery is a kind of perceptual state. Weak perceptualism, defended by M. G. F. Martin and Matthew Soteriou, claims that mental imagery is a representation of a perceptual state, a view sometimes called The Dependency Thesis. Strong perceptualism is to be rejected since it misclassifies imagery disorders and abnormalities as perceptual disorders and abnormalities. Weak Perceptualism is to be rejected since it gets wrong the aim and accuracy conditions of a whole class of mental imagery–projected mental imagery–and relies on an impoverished concept of perceptual states, ignoring certain of their structural features. Whatever the relationship between perception and imagery, the perceptualist has it wrong.

Tracking Cognitive Decline with a Serious Game: Benchmarking Against the Mini-Mental State Examination

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Tiffany Tong ◽  
Jacqueline Urakami ◽  
Mark Chignell ◽  
Mary C. Tierney ◽  
Jacques S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Mini Mental State Examination ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Cognitive Speed ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Game Performance ◽  
State Examination

We are developing whack-a-mole games for cognitive assessment. In prior research, we have shown that variants of the game assess cognitive speed and executive functioning (response inhibition), and can be used to screen for delirium in emergency departments. We have also found that whack-a-mole game performance is significantly correlated with overall Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores. In this paper, we report the results of a study that assessed the relationship of our serious game for cognitive assessment with specific components of the MMSE. We found that game performance is correlated most strongly with the orientation to time items component of MMSE and that the combination of three elements of the MMSE (attention and calculation; orientation to time; repetition) accounted for almost half of the variance in game performance in our sample.

The relationship between cognitive insight and cognitive performance among individuals with at-risk mental state for developing psychosis

2018 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 281-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriyuki Ohmuro ◽  
Masahiro Katsura ◽  
Chika Obara ◽  
Tatsuo Kikuchi ◽  
Yumiko Hamaie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Cognitive Insight ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
At Risk Mental State

scholarly journals A Kaddish for Robert

AmeriQuests ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott S Krenitski
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Emotional Healing ◽  
Grieving Process ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Since reading Kaddish for the first time, Ginsberg’s masterpiece has become an obsession for me. Allen wrote the piece three years after his mother’s death, and in one week it will be the three-year anniversary of my father’s death. While the relationship I had with my father and the mental state of my father is far different than Ginsberg’s descriptions of his mother and their relationship, I identify with his need to express his deep sorrow, anger, and confusion through his unorthodox prayer. This work is a Kaddish for my father the closely follows the form of Ginsberg's Kaddish that so deeply influenced my own emotional healing and grieving process.

Limitations Using Neuroimaging to Reconstruct Mental State After a Crime

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-701
Author(s):  
Michael J. Vitacco ◽  
Alynda M. Randolph ◽  
Rebecca J. Nelson Aguiar ◽  
Megan L. Porter Staats
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Insanity Defense ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Clinical Diagnoses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Brain And Behavior ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Brain

AbstractNeuroimaging offers great potential to clinicians and researchers for a host of mental and physical conditions. The use of imaging has been trumpeted for forensic psychiatric and psychological evaluations to allow greater insight into the relationship between the brain and behavior. The results of imaging certainly can be used to inform clinical diagnoses; however, there continue to be limitations in using neuroimaging for insanity cases due to limited scientific backing for how neuroimaging can inform retrospective evaluations of mental state. In making this case, this paper reviews the history of the insanity defense and explains how the use of neuroimaging is not an effective way of improving the reliability of insanity defense evaluations.

The relationship between the neurotic state and anatomical anomalies center, nerv. systems

1930 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 1250-1250
Author(s):  
J. Lange ◽  
E. Guttmann
Keyword(s):  
Spina Bifida ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Nervous Systems ◽  
The Relationship

Abstracts. Neuropathology and Psychiatry. Prof. J. Lange and assistant professor E. Guttmann (Munch, m. W. 1930 No. 32) could establish in some cases the relationship between a neurotic state and anatomical abnormalities of the center, nervous. systems that the authors call "dystrophische Anomalien, status dystrophicus" and which in most cases were found in the form of spina bifida. In the cases investigated by the authors, spina bifida was detected radiographically and served, in their opinion, as an organic indicator of constitutional readiness for a neurotic disease, which was usually caused by a mental shock or other mental state. harmful phenomenon.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Chronotype, Physical Activity and the Estimated Risk of Dementia in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3701
Author(s):  
Ngeemasara Thapa ◽  
Boram Kim ◽  
Ja-Gyeong Yang ◽  
Hye-Jin Park ◽  
Minwoo Jang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Mini Mental State Examination ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Daily Physical Activity ◽  
Estimated Risk ◽  
Community Dwelling Older Adults ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
State Examination

Our study examined the association between chronotype, daily physical activity, and the estimated risk of dementia in 170 community-dwelling older adults. Chronotype was assessed with the Horne–Östberg Morningness–Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ). Daily physical activity (of over 3 METs) was measured with a tri-axial accelerometer. The Korean version of the Mini-Mental State Examination (K-MMSE) was used to measure the estimated risk of dementia. The evening chronotype, low daily physical activity, and dementia were positively associated with each other. The participants with low physical activity alongside evening preference had 3.05 to 3.67 times higher estimated risk of developing dementia, and participants with low physical activity and morning preference had 1.95 to 2.26 times higher estimated risk than those with high physical activity and morning preference. Our study design does not infer causation. Nevertheless, our findings suggest that chronotype and daily physical activity are predictors of the risk of having dementia in older adults aged 70 years and above.

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