Introduction

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Schulkin
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Social Neuroscience ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
Anatomical Features ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Cognitive Revolution

This book traces the origins of music, from the appearance of the relevant anatomical features, to the development of diverse forms of biological systems that figure in musical expression. It considers how music reflects our social nature and is tied to other instrumental expression in the adaptation to changing circumstances. It shows that expectancy and violations of those musical expectations linked to memory and human development are critical features in the aesthetics of musical sensibility (like other avenues of human experience). The book also examines how music is connected to movement and dance. This introduction provides an overview of the “cognitive revolution” and the emergence of a discipline called “social neuroscience,” as well as Leonard Meyer's theory of music drawn from a pragmatism based in C. S. Peirce and John Dewey's notion of inquiry. It also explains how action and embodied cognition are related to music.

scholarly journals Six Challenges for Embodiment Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 593-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Ostarek ◽  
Falk Huettig
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Perceptual Symbols ◽  
Sensory Motor ◽  
Cognitive Revolution ◽  
Key Questions

Twenty years after Barsalou’s seminal perceptual-symbols article, embodied cognition, the notion that cognition involves simulations of sensory, motor, or affective states, has moved from an outlandish proposal to a mainstream position adopted by many researchers in the psychological and cognitive sciences (and neurosciences). Though it has generated productive work in the cognitive sciences as a whole, it has had a particularly strong impact on research into language comprehension. The view of a mental lexicon based on symbolic word representations, which are arbitrarily linked to sensory aspects of their referents, was generally accepted since the cognitive revolution in the 1950s. This has radically changed. Given the current status of embodiment as a main theory of cognition, it is somewhat surprising that a close look at the literature reveals that the debate about the nature of the processes involved in language comprehension is far from settled, and key questions remain unanswered. We present several suggestions for a productive way forward.

scholarly journals Animal Models Used in Identifying Gender-Related Differences

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bishop B. Curry
Keyword(s):  
Animal Models ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Nonhuman Primates ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Gender Based

There is general agreement in the scientific community on the need to identify appropriate animal models that can be used to screen for gender-based differences. At the same time, there is a growing expectation for data from these models to mimic or be more predictive of the human experience. The species in this review will include nonhuman primates, rats, mice, rabbits, swine, hamsters, gerbils, quail, and fish. Although some of the models are unique, the gender-related differences, in most instances, may be correlated with man, due to the conservation of biological systems across species.

Aging is a Human Experience of Courage and Human Development

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Sullivan-Marx ◽  
Sarah Hall Gueldner
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Experience

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (SHD) AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT (SM)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edin Čolaković ◽  
Ana Šijaković
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Philosophical Basis ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Energy Interaction ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
The Individual

Complex systems consider network with a large number of actors, who between themselves interact and exchange information, substance and energy. Interaction and feedback between systems or within the system are forms of communication. The newly established state and changes in the system of sustainable development meets present needs without compromising the ability of satisfying the needs of future generations. The paper points out the importance of sustainable human development (SHD ) in social nature metabolism processes and triangulated relationship between the individuals, society as a whole and the natural environment. The philosophy of sustainable human development approaches to the human individual as a philosophical basis. This makes human safety as a natural and social being, fundamental to the concept of SHD. Safety management is a process, organization and system that ensure the safety of the individual as a philosophical basis SHD-and, in complex triangulated relationships without dangers and threats. The paper presents the results of scientific research indicating the importance of the functions of safety management in the process of achieving safe surroundings. Key words: Sustainable Human Development, triangulated relationships, metabolic process, safety management.

Situated understanding of human development in Africa: Systematic inquiries at the nexus of psychology, social science and history

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Serpell
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Epistemological Violence ◽  
Modes Of Thought

Gustav Jahoda contended that mainstream psychology’s contribution to our understanding of human experience has been impoverished by a neglect of culture. Over a long series of publications, he argued that the disciplines of psychology, anthropology and history have much to learn from one another, since socio-cultural and politico-economic contexts have influenced the formulation of theories and the dissemination of ideas about human nature. In light of his analyses, I argue in this article that systematic inquiries aspiring to generate a situated understanding of human development in Africa should acknowledge and seek to synthesize the complementary strengths of different academic disciplines. And I recommend that African researchers resist the pressure of an enduring Western cultural hegemony embedded in the methodological dictates of many international scholarly, professional and administrative organizations. Such pressure often threatens to do epistemological violence to indigenous modes of thought preferred by local families and communities in whose care African children are growing up. I end by briefly describing some African studies that illustrate ways in which researchers can address the challenge of resisting oppressive hegemony without losing the opportunity to learn from the wisdom accumulated by human development researchers in other socio-cultural and historical contexts.

Social Neuroscience: Bridging Social and Biological Systems

2012 ◽  
pp. 383-404
Author(s):  
John T. Cacioppo ◽  
Tyler S. Lorig ◽  
Howard C. Nusbaum ◽  
Gary G. Berntson
Keyword(s):  
Biological Systems ◽  
Social Neuroscience

The Presence and Absence of God in Object Relational and Theological Perspectives

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph L. Underwood
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Early Human Development ◽  
Object Relational ◽  
Early Human

In its examination of early personal development, psychoanalytic object relations theory contributes to an understanding of the presence of God in human experience. This contribution is analyzed with reference to the object relational explanations of creativity, person or object centered motivation, and reality experienced as otherness. From the perspective of early human development, object relations theory helps to clarify and confirm Terrien's (1978) interpretation of the presence of God as elusive. Implications of object relations theory for pastoral and clinical practice are briefly noted.

Revisiting “The Art of Being Fragile”: Why cultural psychology needs literature and poetry

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga V. Lehmann ◽  
Svend Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Core

Writers devote their lives to find words that faithfully resemble what is at the core of human experience and existence. Thus, psychologists interested in understanding human development in everyday life could turn toward writers and poets with humble curiosity. In this article, we illustrate how a narrative analysis of a work of art can be done, taking “ The Art of Being Fragile. How Leopardi can Save your Life” by the Italian writer and teacher Alessandro D’Avenia as a case. In addition, we reflect upon the mastery with which the author sheds light on aspects that theories in cultural psychology have tried to unveil. Such aspects are: (a) poetic activism: a revolution of the poetics of everyday life; (b) the poetics of human development; (c) the beauty within the fragile as a master; and (d) the intuition of the spirit as an invitation.

Buddhism

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Heim
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Human Vulnerability ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Four Noble Truths

Buddhism deals directly with the emotions as a chief concern of its doctrine and practice. The Buddha's core teaching of the Four Noble Truths begins with an emotional truth, that is, that life inevitably involves sorrow, suffering, and grief. Given their foundational concern with human vulnerability to suffering, it is not surprising that Buddhist traditions developed various systems of knowledge that explore human feeling with great subtlety, and advanced certain technologies to redress the pain in our emotional experience. In the various languages used by Buddhists, however, there is no term that corresponds exactly to the generic category “emotion,” and thus emotion as such is not theorized in Buddhist thought. This article reflects on how Buddhist thinkers have shaped human experience in distinctive ways through their analysis of affective life. It first discusses the Abhidhamma texts as the most systematic rendering of early Buddhist treatments of psychology. It then considers meditation techniques and their work with mental processes and examines the nuances of friendship and the social nature of other emotions.

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