Dissertationen: „Awareness and consciousness“

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MacLean, Brian J. „Self-consciousness, self-awareness and pain“. Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4617.

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Ross, David Francis. „Self-awareness, self-consciousness and the self-control of drunken comportment“. Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75338.

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The influence of a primarily Public form of self-awareness and of Private and Public Self-Consciousness on drunken physical aggression and complex reaction-time were examined. Two forms of the balanced-placebo design were employed. Results indicated that each form of self-focus played a significant role in the determination of various aspects of drunken comportment. Consumption of alcohol did not eliminate self-aware behavior on the measures employed. Public Self-Consciousness acted to increase drunken impairment. A modified form of the balanced-placebo design proved superior to the standard version for use with moderately high doses (1.32 ml/kg) of alcohol on a measure of subjective intoxication. The implications for the literature on self-focus and drunken comportment are discussed.

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Peacock, Susan H. „The Effect of Ecosystem Consciousness on Overpopulation Awareness -- A Case Study“. Thesis, Saybrook University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10285148.

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The purpose of this research was to investigate how knowledge of biological ecosystems affects individual recognition of humanity as part of and subject to the laws of nature. This dissertation interrogated the question of how awareness of the impact of human overpopulation on the environment was perceived by research participants. That expanding human population growth, and its inherent consumption patterns, is a root cause of virtually every human-related environmental threat is documented in the existing literature but awareness and accountability for this remain limited. Using ecopsychology and analytical psychology as a theoretical framework, this multiple case study investigated how and whether environmental awareness might be impacted by personal knowledge of how ecosystems function in nature.

A multiple case study design was used to interview 10 adults on their perspectives of the environmental impact of human population growth. The participants were purposefully selected creating two five-person groups. Group S had life-science academic training and work experience; Group NS had none. A researcher-generated instrument of 30 open-ended questions, with recorded interviews were used to ascertain participant understanding of ecological laws and population biology concepts and how they might relate to personal worldviews on the cause(s) of environmental issues.

Thematic analysis was used to code data and identify response patterns. Findings suggested participants with working knowledge of ecosystems demonstrated more extensive understanding of the impact of human actions, including population growth, on the environment. Although widespread awareness existed in both groups that human alienation from nature is prevalent and is having environmental consequences, Group S subjects more often recognized the systemic environmental effects of human activity. They were inclined to advocate for individual responsibility and consciousness-raising.

Support for core concepts of ecopsychology is suggested by the findings. Strengthening the human-nature bond to one of inclusiveness using experiential education is a viable option to promote greater ecological awareness and personal accountability. Additional data-driven research is needed to investigate the effects of life science literacy and holistic systems thinking on pro-environmental awareness.

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Windey, Bert. „Is consciousness graded or dichotomous? a level of processing account“. Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209166.

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In this dissertation, we investigate whether consciousness is graded or dichotomous. Based on previous work and a level of processing framework, we hypothesize that consciousness in general, and visual experience specifically, can be conceived of as both graded and dichotomous. We present a series of experimental studies that provide support for this reasoning. We outline a set of future projects which can follow up on this research, and discuss the limitations of the current approach.
Doctorat en Sciences Psychologiques et de l'éducation
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Grassini, Simone. „Electrophysiological correlates of subjective visual awareness: an ERP study“. Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-104606.

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Many event-related potential (ERP) studies have tried to find out which brain processes are responsible for the subjective experience of seeing. The contribution of these studies has been crucial in order to identify the temporal and spatial dynamics of visual awareness. The negative difference wave named visual awareness negativity (VAN), observed around 200 ms after the stimulus onset, has been claimed by many as a plausible candidate for reflecting the processes correlating with conscious visual perception. Other studies argue instead that only the P3 wave, a positive wave observed around 300-400 ms, correlates with visual awareness. The aim of the present study was to shed light on the issue of the presence of VAN even when using an experimental procedure that allows to dissociate the ERP correlate of subjective awareness from those of unconscious perception, allowing a separate analysis. Data from 24 participants was collected in the present study. The experimental framework included a forced-choice localization task of a low-contrast stimulus, followed by the subjective rating of awareness. The results of the study support the idea that the VAN is the earliest electrophysiological correlate of subjective visual awareness and that the phenomenon of visual awareness emerges early in the visual area.

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Halvorsen, Beth Marie. „Humility, boldness, surrender, and tenacity a model of centered flexibility that helps pastors increase self differentiation /“. Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p075-0076.

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Mattisson, Amanda. „Conscious by Default : The Role of the Default Mode Network in Internal Awareness“. Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17860.

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Abstract In the 1990s researchers discovered task-deactivated regions in the human brain. Together, these areas make up the default mode network (DMN). It was originally proposed to act as a balancing mechanism between different brain systems, explaining the deactivations, but is now mostly studied with regards to internal awareness, such as daydreaming and mental imagery. The purpose of this thesis is to present a summary of DMN research, focusing on the network’s suggested role in internal awareness. This will be done by reviewing a wide variety of research that either explicitly or indirectly correlate default mode network features with aspects of consciousness and internal awareness. The subjective experience of being conscious have been a source of argument primarily among philosophers, but the qualities we feel are intimately linked to cognitive functions that are supported by the regions found in the DMN. Cognitive neuroscience may therefore be able to contribute to the concept of internal awareness and consciousness.

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Klein, Barry Matthew. „Determining Criteria for Distinguishing States of Consciousness“. ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4929.

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Even though there are many views on consciousness theory in the pertinent literature, there remains a need for a unifying framework for specifying the features of specific states of consciousness. In order to know what kinds of experiences conscious states have in common, researchers need to elicit testimony that is more direct and finer-grained than has been previously available. This dissertation endeavors to fill a gap in current research by addressing concepts and methods for making requisite distinctions. This research illuminates the question of whether specific states of consciousness can be reliably and validly distinguished from each other. In order to do this, 41 individuals, who had experienced significant peak or ecstatic states from a variety of induction methods (most prominently by ingestion of psychedelic substances), were invited to be interviewed. The interview was designed as a conversational-type synthesis of 5 well-known questionnaires pertinent to states of consciousness, but without their explicit and implicit assumptions; that is, the volunteers' responses would not conform to predetermined questions. Encoding their responses allowed me to develop a model that helped to answer the research question ("Are there identifiable features that can reliably and validly distinguish among states of consciousness thought to be distinct from each other?") by formulating a model in which any given conscious state can be catalogued in terms of its component factors (background, resistances, setting, induction, tradition, energies, and breakthrough events). The results of this study provide much-needed insights into people's internal experiences of their various states, thus forming a basis for improved treatments and analyses. Better understanding of these states can be an impetus for social change by allowing for more incisive analyses and treatments, and also enabling more understanding of other people's inner perspectives.

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Lenk, Sonja. „By being human : an anthropological inquiry into the dimension and potential of consciousness in the context of spiritual practice“. Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/960.

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The research explores the concept of human consciousness and its being experienced in a particular social context, focusing on consciousness’s ‘highest potential’ as described in both ancient Buddhist Philosophy and more recent spiritual teachings. The main attention is on the individual’s emotional and mental experience of ‘conventional’ and ‘ultimate’ reality as taught by these traditions and the possible transformation of consciousness they might initiate. Two years of fieldwork was carried out at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, which is a spiritual educational institution, offering a four-year training to become a healer. The School emphasis is on the human individual and his or her inherent existential power to transform and transcend limitations or delusions, focusing on the process of self- transformation. Being human in the eyes of the School is seen as an endless potential for growth, creativity, the capacity to love, and about learning to become fully responsible for one’s own life and happiness. The thesis explores the effect that this particular understanding of human potential has in the quotidian existence of the trainee and her or his social relations. Methodologically the study is based in phenomenological anthropology. This approach here implies that life cannot be understood through the conceptual or systematic study of its outward forms. Therefore it places conscious experience at the centre of its investigation, rather than disengaged objectivity. By employing the first-person perspective and undertaking part of the training myself, I hope to do justice to the inherently subjective dimension of consciousness and to gain as deep an understanding as possible of the processes of its transformation. The thesis thus includes subjective personal experience as primary data, and understands being objective in the sense of being open and without bias to both internal and external experience, giving the ‘perennial wisdom’ of spiritual traditions the same status as approved scientific laws.

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Gerdfeldter, Billy. „Exploring the Neural Correlates of Auditory Awareness“. Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157188.

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Neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) represent the physiological processes related to consciousness and awareness. Consciousness is theorized as a recurrent process of integration between separate but specialized brain areas. Previous research has used electroencephalography (EEG) to locate NCCs of sensory awareness in vision through event-related potentials (ERPs). Two ERP components thought to represent visual awareness are the visual awareness negativity (VAN) and late positivity (LP). VAN and LP have been extensively studied, yet little research has been conducted in other sensory modalities. In this study, the presence of an auditory awareness negativity (AAN) and associated LP is investigated in 23 subjects using EEG. To avoid false positives in data analysis, two research hypotheses were preregistered. The results indicate that auditory LP does occur, but that AAN does not, in hypothesized intervals. However, the data suggest that AAN may occur at a later interval. Possible attributes of the later interval are discussed. In sum, the data provide results consistent with recurrent theories of sensory awareness.

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Garcia, Joseph Julio Carandang. „How private self-awareness can influence the effectiveness self-reportusing the Big-five among Chinese adolescent“. Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4516924X.

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Routledge, Andrew James. „The internal structure of consciousness“. Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-internal-structure-of-consciousness(4e91f257-fa9f-4a53-81be-e30cdb0002a5).html.

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Our understanding of the physical world has evolved drastically over the last century and the microstructure described by subatomic physics has been found to be far stranger than we could previously have envisaged. However, our corresponding model of experience and its structure has remained largely untouched. The orthodox view conceives of our experience as made up of a number of different simpler experiences that are largely independent of one another. This traditional atomistic picture is deeply entrenched. But I argue that it is wrong. Our experience is extraordinarily rich and complex. In just a few seconds we may see, hear and smell a variety of things, feel the position and movement of our body, experience a blend of emotions, and undergo a series of conscious thoughts. This very familiar fact generates three puzzling questions. The first question concerns the way in which all these different things are experienced together. What we see, for example, is experienced alongside what we hear. Our visual experience does not occur in isolation from our auditory experience, sealed off and separate. It is fused together in some sense. It is co-conscious. We may then ask the Unity Question: What does the unity of consciousness consist in? The second question is the Counting Question: How many experiences does a unified region of consciousness involve? Should we think of our experience at a time as consisting in just one very rich experience, in a handful of sense-specific experiences, or in many very simple experiences? How should we go about counting experiences? Is there any principled way to do so?The third and final question, the Dependency Question, concerns the degree of autonomy of the various different aspects of our unified experience. For example, would one's visual experience be the same if one's emotional experience differed? Is the apparent colour of a sunset affected by the emotional state that we are in at the time? I offer a new answer to the Unity Question and argue that it has striking implications for the way that we address the Counting Question and the Dependency Question. In particular, it supports the view that our experience at a time consists in just one very rich experience in which all of the different aspects are heavily interdependent.

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Lazar, Paul. „Consciousness & survival: A rational & unifying theory on human consciousness/awareness function, plus its premises and its implications for daily realities“. Thesis, Lazar, Paul (2000) Consciousness & survival: A rational & unifying theory on human consciousness/awareness function, plus its premises and its implications for daily realities. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2000. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50339/.

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This essay is about the role of human consciousness in human daily survival. In research on human consciousness the choice of ideas & language, plus deciding what not to talk about, is crucial for the results of this research. In other words, successful research on human consciousness demands strict initial boundaries, and the following analogy will show why...

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Peeters, Moos. „Attention, awareness & prediction : lessons from classical conditioning, disorders of consciousness and positive rewards“. Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708937.

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Ekman, Andreas. „Hypnosis monitoring during general anaesthesia : with focus on awareness /“. Stockholm, 2007. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2007/978-91-7357-381-8/.

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Eriksson, Johan. „The conscious brain : Empirical investigations of the neural correlates of perceptual awareness“. Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Department of Psychology, Umeå University, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1430.

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Nordlund, Matthew. „The effects of priming on personality self-reports challenges and opportunities /“. Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1240857337.

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Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Psychology-Industrial/Organizational, 2009.
"May, 2009." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 11/27/2009) Advisor, Andrea Snell; Committee members, Robert Lord, Aaron Schmidt, James Diefendorff, Matthew Lee; Department Chair, Paul Levy; Dean of the College, Chand Midha; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

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Singh, Harsimrat. „Development of EEG based BCI approaches for detection of awareness in human disorders of consciousness“. Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3790/.

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Electroencephalogram (EEG) based Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have been successfully developed to help patients with motor disabilities but with retained cognitive abilities. In this thesis, the BCI techniques are developed for patients with severe brain injuries such as those in minimally conscious states (MCS) and vegetative states (VS). In 2006, neuroimaging based volitional imagery paradigms akin to the ones used for the development of motor imagery based BCIs revealed that a VS patient could produce neural responses indistinguishable from those produced by a healthy subject. The work presented in the thesis is inspired by this revelation and presents first attempts to develop electrophysiology based objective bedside methods to detect awareness in disorders of consciousness. The benefit of electrophysiology based methods is that they are able to register the response from the brain immediately and provide far better time resolution than imaging. As many patients either cannot undergo a fMRI scan or do not have access to it, it is believed that long term benefits to quality of life for this patient group can be better achieved at the bedside by an electrophysiological solution. In order to achieve the objectives, EEG data is collected using two BCI approaches: volitional imagery and event related potentials (ERPs) through rare/odd presentation of a target stimulus amongst a sequence of stimuli which produces high amplitude EEG wave after 300ms of its occurrence, this is called P300. Four different variants of volitional paradigms of 'imagine playing tennis' and 'spatial navigation' are used to collect data from 19 healthy subjects and the P300 speller is used to collect data from 5 healthy subjects, two MCS and two VS patients. In the case of imagery data, a channel selection scheme based on classifier performance, which also evaluates the contribution of each channel to the classification process, is used. This scheme is developed from the offline analysis of a benchmark dataset from the BCI competition III. The comparative results of algorithms for BCI imagery data analysis (time domain parameters (TDP), adaptive autoregressive (AAR) and bandpower (BP) for feature extraction and linear discriminant analysis (LDA), support vector machines (SVM) for classification) is presented to determine the feasibility of using these paradigms with patients. Consistent performance accuracy Figures for classification, in the range of 80-90%, are achieved showing that volitional tasks are distinguishable through EEG. A combination of AAR and LDA outperformed the other combinations of algorithms. The actively contributing channels, in achieving these classification results, are used to create EEG signatures for the volitional tasks. The EEG signatures indirectly signify the areas of brain activation for each of the volitional tasks and are found to be comparable to those obtained from neuroimaging. The validation of techniques is performed using a two class, 64-channel electrocorticogram (ECoG) dataset and initial data exploration was performed using principal component analysis (PCA). The derivative of the linear least fit polynomial was used as features and 64% classification was achieved on the unlabelled test data with multi layer perceptron (MLP) as the benchmark mechanism. Ten channels which actively contributed to the classification process were selected using genetic algorithms (GAs), thereby reducing the dimensionality, an important benefit when analysing multichannel, multi-trial datasets. Feature extraction techniques, which can combine spatial and temporal information such as common spatial patterns (CSP), were evaluated and 86% trials were classified correctly using MLP classification. The validation of classifier performance based channel selection produced six channels of interest, the bipolar combinations of which produced a best accuracy of 86% classification with AAR features and LDA classifier and also with TDP features and SVM classification. The P300 data recorded from the patients was investigated for a reproducible P300 response to the target letters. This is achieved by signal averaging and the analysis of square of Pearson‘s correlation coefficient (r-square). Clearly identifiable differential responses to the target letters were observed for three patients. It is believed that with auditory addition to the stimulus presentation in the stimulation procedure, training and consistency of responses, a tool for an objective method of diagnosis and assistive communication could be developed for this patient group. The BCI technology had not been used for the cognitively impaired patient groups such as MCS and VS, hence, the results of this work are new and contribute to bridging the gap between the core BCI research and its applications for patients. The objective measures of awareness developed through EEG based BCI methods will help to reduce the misdiagnosis rate, which is 43% for this patient group. The findings of the work presented in this thesis can be used to further develop an assistive communication tool for patients in this group.

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Hall, Mary Canty. „The effects of self-awareness, self-consciousness, and standards of propriety on interpersonal physical pleasuring /“. The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487260531954828.

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Booth, Nancy Davis 1951. „The relationship between height and self-esteem, and the mediating effects of self-consciousness“. Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276889.

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This study was designed to investigate the relationship between height and self-esteem, and to examine the mediating effects of self-consciousness. Four hundred and seventy-nine college students, 143 males and 336 females, 75% under the age of 21, were administered The Personal Opinion Survey which consisted of demographic information, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and Elkind and Bowen's Imaginary Audience Scale. Findings revealed a nonlinear relationship between height and self-esteem. Further, self-consciousness emerged as a significant mediator of the relationship between height and self-esteem, accounting for the difference in male and female self-esteem scores. Moreover, the influence of self-consciousness on the height and self-esteem relationship was revealed greatest for females.

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Bell, Aaron M. „Reclaiming ethical responsibility : an urgent case for authentic, psychological work /“. Connect to online version of this title in UO's Scholars' Bank, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456288511&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Lee, Charlotte Louise. „Self-consciousness in the works of the very late Goethe“. Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610832.

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McNabb, Meridith Renee. „Creating a global consciousness| The impact of international studies curriculum on student development of global awareness“. Thesis, The University of Oklahoma, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1524511.

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Global consciousness is an important trait for high-school students to exhibit. One way that global consciousness can be incorporated into the curriculum is via an elective International Studies class. The purpose of this study was to determine what effect, if any, taking an International Studies class would have on students’ global awareness. The questions that guided this study were: 1. What aspects of an international studies course resonated most with students? 2. What impact did participation in this course have on student global competence?

In order to research this topic, I conducted a case study in which an International Studies class was studied. The teacher who developed and taught the course was interviewed, in addition to three of her former students. Twenty-three students whom were students currently taking the class also participated in a survey.

The methodology for this study was consistent with the case-study approach. A school was selected that offered International Studies, former students and their teacher was interviewed, and current students volunteered to participate in a survey. The data were recorded and analyzed for possible themes. Three key themes emerged that spoke to the effect the course had upon students. First, the course served as a foundation of information the students were able to draw on and apply later in life. Second, the course served as an opportunity for students to increase their international literacy. Third, the course provided an opportunity for the students to become more globally aware citizens. These results were analyzed and interpreted through two theoretical lenses: John Dewey’s Theory of Experience and James Banks’ Theory of the Cosmopolitan Citizen.

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Friedenheim, Ann. „The effects of Hatha yoga on self-awareness and self-actualization“. Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1986. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University, 1986.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2775. Abstract follows appendices. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-125).

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Jennings, Bryan Colby. „Beneath the surface seeing through reflections /“. Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2010/b_jennings_041910.pdf.

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Zhou, Shuo. „Understanding vicarious experience : the role of self-referencing in a predictive model“. HKBU Institutional Repository, 2012. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1432.

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El-Desouky, Ayman Ahmed. „The self-begetting modern : figuring the human in Whitman and Joyce /“. Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004257.

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Förster, Jona. „ERP and MEG Correlates of Visual Consciousness : An Update“. Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17375.

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Two decades of event-related potential (ERP) research have established that the most consistent correlates of the onset of visual consciousness are the early visual awareness negativity (VAN), a negative component in the N2 time range over posterior electrode sites, and the late positivity (LP), a positive component in the P3 time range over fronto-parietal electrode sites. A review by Koivisto & Revonsuo (2010) had looked at 39 studies and concluded that the VAN is the earliest and most reliable correlate of visual phenomenal consciousness, whereas the LP probably reflects later processes associated with reflective/access consciousness. However, an “early” vs. “late” debate still persists. This thesis provides an update to that earlier review. All ERP and MEG studies that have appeared since 2010 and directly compared ERPs of aware and unaware conditions are considered. The result corroborates the view that VAN is the earliest and most consistent signature of visual phenomenal consciousness, and casts further doubt on the LP as an ERP correlate of consciousness. Important new methodological, empirical, and theoretical developments in the field are described, and the empirical results are related to the theoretical background debates.

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Narasimhan, Yamini. „The Link Between Green Purchasing Decisions And Measures Of Environmental Consciousness“. Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1082121508.

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Barr, Gunilla. „Novel neurophysiological monitors of the transition from wakefulness to loss of consciousness during anaesthesia /“. Stockholm, 2003. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2003/91-7349-597-2/.

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Gurioli, Laura. „Stimolazioni pluriafferenziali nel paziente con grave cerebrolesione acquisita: effetti su arousal e awareness“. Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018.

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Introduzione: La linea operativa seguita per i pazienti in stato di minima coscienza o in stato vegetativo presuppone una stimolazione pluriafferenziale; questa pare essere più una buona prassi dettata dall'esperienza sul campo che una modalità stabilita, ricercata e verificata in letteratura. Pochi sono infatti gli studi che si occupano dell'importanza della stimolazione per aumentare la vigilanza e migliorare la prognosi. Obiettivo: Verificare l'efficacia di varie tipologie di stimolazioni, come i cambiamenti posturali e le stimolazioni sensoriali, nell'aumento di vigilanza, arousal e awareness nei pazienti con disturbi della coscienza (DOC). Metodi: La ricerca è stata effettuata sulle principali banche dati biomediche di interesse riabilitativo quali Medline (Pubmed) e PEDro, tra il 14/06/18 e il 28/09/18. Sono stati presi in considerazione articoli pubblicati tra il 2009 e il 2017. Sono stati inclusi esclusivamente RCT che valutassero come outcome il miglioramento del livello di coscienza in seguito a stimolazioni pluriafferenziali. Gli studi trattano i cambiamenti posturali o le stimolazioni sensoriali piacevoli e familiari. Risultati: Sono stati inclusi in questa revisione 6 studi RCT, 2 sui cambiamenti posturali e 4 sulla stimolazione sensoriale. Gli studi sono stati valutati secondo la PEDro Scale e sono stati analizzati e confrontati tra loro. Negli articoli si notano miglioramenti del livello di coscienza dei pazienti sia per i protocolli di verticalizzazione precoce sia per la stimolazione sensoriale eseguita da familiari o amici del paziente. Conclusione: Essendo due tipologie di stimolazioni economiche e sicure per il paziente è raccomandabile inserirle nel progetto riabilitativo. Inoltre è necessario approfondire gli studi in materia per stabilire un protocollo di trattamento più omogeneo e ottenere risultati più attendibili.

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Davies, C. G. „Conscience as consciousness : The idea of self-awareness in French philosophical writing and prose narrative from Descartes to Diderot“. Thesis, University of Leeds, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377988.

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Whitehead, D. Louise. „Awareness through the musical consciousness, a music therapy assessment continuum for children with severe brain injury; a tool to musically assess level of consciousness and to establish a treatment protocol“. Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0020/MQ57918.pdf.

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Muñoz, Moldes Santiago. „Learning, self-awareness and the body: A cognitive neuroscience approach to learning from biofeedback“. Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2019. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/295591/4/ToC.pdf.

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In this dissertation, we aimed at better understanding the role of learning in shaping the contents of consciousness. To capture variations in consciousness, we took subjective measures as a starting point, and we performed several studies measuring their relation to human behavior, peripheral physiology and brain physiology in about 160 participants. We first focused on the learning mechanisms implicated in learning with feedback from the body, and then investigated how autonomic responses related to several aspects of awareness in associative learning tasks. Our results provide evidence that people can improve in their sensitivity to discriminate between mental states, while their confidence in doing so is unaffected. Our results also indicate no evidence for the malleability of phasic heart rate response by implicit knowledge. Taken together, these results suggest that consciousness is not easily influenced by learning with external feedback from the body. At a more abstract conceptual level, we explored several methodological considerations when interpreting changes in subjective reports and separated the potential contributions of knowledge and direct perception. Finally, we presented a novel taxonomy for categorizing neurofeedback paradigms, which may be of help to disentangle the learning process that is implicated in neurofeedback.
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Semmens-Wheeler, Rebecca. „The contrasting role of higher order awareness in hypnosis and meditation“. Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45311/.

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Two key questions underpin the research presented here. Firstly, how does altered higher order awareness contribute to hypnotic experience? Secondly, how do meditation and hypnosis differ in terms of the role of higher order awareness? These questions are addressed here in the form of four papers. In the first paper I review the literatures of hypnosis and meditation in order to consider the similarities and differences between meditation and hypnosis in terms of the role of attentional skill and the neural underpinnings of each. I then draw conclusions regarding the contrasting role of higher order awareness and metacognition in meditation and hypnosis. Paper two explores higher order awareness in hypnosis by comparing the effects of alcohol, compared to placebo, on hypnotisability and associated frontal lobe executive functioning. Paper three compares meditation and hypnosis by investigating differences in higher order thoughts, mindfulness, absorption and perceptual encoding style as revealed by self-report measures. The final paper takes a broader look at higher order awareness and its relation to the experience of agency and involuntariness in hypnotic suggestion using a Libet type paradigm.

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Pasquali, Antoine. „Learning with and without consciousness: empirical and computational explorations“. Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210269.

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Is it possible to learn without awareness? If so, what can learn without awareness, and what are the different mechanisms that differentiate between learning with and without consciousness? How can best measure awareness?

Here are a few of the many questions that I have attempted to investigate during the past few years. The main goal of this thesis was to explore the differences between conscious and unconscious learning. Thus, I will expose the behavioral and computational explorations that we conducted during the last few years. To present them properly, I first review the main concepts that, for almost a century now, researchers in the fields of neuroscience have formulated in order to tackle the issues of both learning and consciousness. Then I detail different hypotheses that guided our empirical and computational explorations. Notably, a few series of experiments allowed identification of several mechanisms that participate in either unconscious or conscious learning. In addition we explored a computational framework for explaining how one could learn unconsciously and nonetheless gain subjective access to one’s mental events. After reviewing the unfolding of our investigation, I detail the mechanisms that we identified as responsible for differences between learning with and without consciousness, and propose new hypotheses to be evaluated in the future.

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Schuurman, Shelley D. „An exploration of the individual characteristics and abilities that contribute to competent professional performance in social work practitioners“. Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.

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Ozcan, Orcun Orkan. „Exploring The Effects Of Working Memory Capacity, Attention, And Expertise On Situation Awareness In A Flight Simulation Environment“. Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614727/index.pdf.

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Experienced and novice simulator pilots are subject to some of the constraints of a real flight (or a full flight simulator) situation in a PC based flight simulation. In this thesis, the effects of expertise, working memory capacity, inhibition and divided attention on situation awareness (SA) in simulated flight task environments are investigated. The cognitive aspects underlying the process of situation awareness are explored by analyzing the compound effects of above listed factors. Online and Offline SA measurements obtained from a simulated flight task are used with flight hours standing for expertise and scores of Automated Operation Span Task, Stroop and Coskunö
z visual attention tasks as measurements for working memory capacity, inhibition and divided attention respectively. Regression analyses reveal that expected relationships of simulator pilots&rsquo
SA with expertise and inhibition capacity are supported. On the other hand, expected relationships of SA with working memory and divided attention capacities are not revealed. This situation probably results from unsystematic differences in simulator pilots&rsquo
practices. In addition to the main experiment, simulator pilots&rsquo
levels of neural activity at their dorsolateral prefrontal cortex are also measured during their behavioral performance. The relationships among neural correlates of mental workload induced by the simulated flight are investigated by the functional near-infrared (fNIR) spectroscopy optical brain imaging technology. Theorized mental workload distinction in the scenario of the simulated flight task is successfully observed in both perceived workload declarations and oxygenation measurements by fNIR.

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Bird, Cody. „Creating bicycle-friendly cities: increasing bicycle ridership through improved safety conditions, bicycle infrastructure, and the support of a bicycle consciousness“. Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6908.

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Master of Regional and Community Planning
Department of Architecture
Jason Brody
This report examines the use of bicycling as a transportation alternative to the personal automobile in the United States. It begins with a review of historical trends that caused Americans to move away from bicycling for transportation and choosing to adopt automobiles as the primary mode of transportation. A review of articles, reports, and studies is used to consider the benefits connected with utilitarian cycling and electing to bicycle for transportation. The report focuses on three prominent barriers that affect an individual‟s decision to bicycle: bicycle safety, bicycle consciousness, and bicycle infrastructure. The study discusses how these three obstacles are considerable factors affecting bicycling. The study also discusses a number of exemplary solutions for overcoming these barriers that have been implemented in bicycle-friendly cities in the United States. An analysis of plans and policies for the bicycle-friendly cities of Portland, Oregon and Davis, California is used to determine what historical actions have led to a more complete bicycle network in these two cities which have elected to promote bicycling. An in-depth evaluation of Boulder, Colorado, provides insight for specific plans that have been adopted and strategies that have proven to be successful in improving bicycling for transportation. The report attempts to demonstrate that bicycling can be made a viable means of transportation in United States‟ communities by adopting comprehensive plans and policies that address the challenges of bicycle safety, bicycle consciousness, and bicycle infrastructure simultaneously.

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Tatone, Jenny. „Integrating Contemplative Learning into New Media Literacy: Heightening Self-Awareness and Critical Consciousness for Enriched Relationships with and within New Media Ecologies“. Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20518.

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This thesis explores the relationships and experiences that young adults have with and within complicated and always changing new media environments, such as those afforded by social media platforms and mobile media applications. By analyzing the ways in which digital realms are both open and interconnected and also marketized and restricted, this thesis explores how a contemplative approach to new media literacy pedagogy could help young adults to perceive new media from multiple, contradictory viewpoints at once, thereby supporting them in creating healthy, productive, creative, and imaginative relationships with the digital and public technologies mediating their lives, at the same time mitigating the challenges associated with commercialized, habituated new media experience. This thesis takes an auto-ethnographic approach, merging personal narratives with qualitative interpretations of where philosophies of technology, theories of media literacies, and the results of focus group studies intersect.

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Bleecker, Wendy S. „Predicting student outcomes for Washington State middle schools using school counselor's and administrator's racial consciousness and organizational variables“. Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Fall2007/w_bleecker_113007.pdf.

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Stoytchev, Alexander. „Robot Tool Behavior: A Developmental Approach to Autonomous Tool Use“. Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-06112007-013056/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.
Isbell, Charles, Committee Member ; Lipkin, Harvey, Committee Member ; Balch, Tucker, Committee Member ; Bobick, Aaron, Committee Member ; Arkin, Ronald, Committee Chair.

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Fjordstig, Andréas. „Separating Post-perceptual Processes From Auditory Awareness : An Electrophysiological Study With a No-response Task“. Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17784.

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Two theories of consciousness have different ideas about when consciousness happens and what neural processes enable conscious experience. The recurrent processing theory supports an early onset of consciousness caused by recurring loops of information between sensory areas. Contrary to this belief, the global workspace theory claims that consciousness appears later, through global recurrent loops of information between sensory and higher order brain areas such as the visual cortex and frontoparietal areas. Electrophysiological studies have found an event-related negativity arising in primary visual areas around 200 ms that correlates to awareness. This activity suits the predictions of an early onset of consciousness made by the recurrent processing theory. It is followed by a later positive amplitude appearing around 400 ms. This activity is in line with predictions made by the global workspace theory. The current study transition from visual to auditory awareness research in order to find the neural correlates of consciousness in audition. A sound detection task with tones calibrated to each participants threshold value was used in the experiment and two electrophysiological measurements of auditory awareness were found. An auditory awareness negativity that appears around 200 ms after stimulus onset and a late positivity appearing around 400 ms. Researchers disagree about if these event-related potentials correlate with awareness or unrelated cognitive mechanisms. In order to solve this problem, the current experiment was devised to test if they were affected by response conditions. A no-response paradigm with reversed response conditions was used to separate pre- and post-conscious mechanisms from the auditory awareness negativity and the late positivity. Results showed that auditory awareness negativity was independent of response condition and thus free from post-perceptual processes. The late positivity amplitude seems to be dependent on response condition but the result was inconclusive.

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Finn, Elizabeth M. „Negatively Disinhibited Online Communication: The Role of Visual Anonymity and Public Self-Awareness“. The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461142960.

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Pierret, Adrien, und Boduka Rosette Beze. „Exploring the brand knowledge in the organic Cosmetics market“. Thesis, INBA Program, ESC Troyes, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-16260.

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A trend of environmental consciousness is developing for some years in every market and sometimes gave birth to a sub-market such as the organic-cosmetic market. This market represents an important part of cosmetics in general and major companies can be identified. Marketers have noticed this trend and sometimes use it into their communication strategy but it still has to be studied properly in order to determine its impact on the purchasing behavior of consumers and their perception of the brand. Indeed, we think that this environmental consciousness can challenge the balance between Brand Image and Brand Awareness in this market. This paper is aiming to explore the impact of this specific trend on the organic-cosmetic market and studies its influence over the Brand Knowledge management, more precisely the relationship between Brand Image and Brand Awareness. In that goal, we chose to make interviews in front of the shops of two companies interacting on this market: The Body Shop and L’Occitane en Provence. Combined with data collected from previous research into a deductive approach, it led us to some general conclusion concerning the level of Brand Image and Awareness of those companies, their relationship and the impact of environmental consciousness on this relationship. We concluded from those results that the brand L’Occitane en Provence had a slightly lower Brand Awareness than its competitor but its customers had a more important environmental consciousness that led them to this company due to its values and specific type of product. We can then conclude that on such markets impacted with this type of external factor, if the company implements it in its communication strategy or its core values, then its need for Brand Awareness is lower. One can now wonder if this trend in particular or any other external factor can be used in other markets on the same way.

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Corazzol, Martina. „The neural bases of consciousness in the healthy and in the pathological brain“. Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE1298/document.

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L'étude de la conscience est un sujet d'investigation fascinant avec un large champ d'applications et d'implications. Les processus de la conscience peuvent être divisés en deux composantes indépendantes quoiqu'intimement liées : l'état conscient et le contenu conscient. L'état conscient correspond aux processus de variation de la vigilance, tandis que le contenu conscient fait référence aux expériences sensorielles perçues et manipulées dans un espace conscient. Bien que la conscience soit un élément essentiel de la cognition humaine, qui conditionne ce que les gens vivent et peuvent se remémorer, la légitimité et le bien-fondé de l'analyse scientifique et rigoureuse des corrélats neuronaux de la conscience soulèvent encore des débats houleux. Dans la première partie de cette thèse, j'utilise un célèbre paradigme de conflit sensorimoteur pour identifier des corrélats neuronaux de l'émergence de la conscience. Les travaux initiés par Torstein Nielsen (Nielsen 1963) ont démontré que la majorité des traitements sensorimoteurs s'effectuent sans nécessiter une analyse consciente. L'émergence de phénomènes conscients apparaissant à partir d'un seuil subjectif de conflit sensori-moteur appelé point d'égalité subjective. A partir d'enregistrements électroencéphalographiques, effectués chez une population de sujets adultes, il est possible d'identifier des sources d'activités corticales indépendantes des intensités des stimulations sensorielles expérimentées et spécifiques de l'émergence d'une sensation perçue consciemment. Ainsi, j'ai pu démontrer que le précuneus était une structure centrale dans les processus qui transforment un conflit sensorimoteur en une expérience consciente. J'ai également étudié ce phénomène d'un point de vue développemental en examinant les performances comportementales et des enregistrements EEG recueillies chez l'enfant. Bien que le moment de la correction du mouvement et la qualité du tracé de la trajectoire étaient similaires aux données mesurées chez les sujets adultes, le seuil de conscience motrice s'est montré plus élevé et l'activité du cortex pariétal n'a pas été retrouvée. En revanche, l'aire motrice supplémentaire a été identiée comme un corrélat important de l'émergence d'une sensation consciente d'un conflit sensorimoteur chez l'enfant. Dans une seconde partie, mes travaux ont été consacrés à l'hypothèse audacieuse qu'une stimulation électrique du nerf vague pourrait modifier l'état de conscience d'un patient se trouvant dans un état végétatif depuis 15 ans. Nous rapportons les effets bénéfiques observés après cette thérapeutique expérimentale au niveau comportemental, clinique et neurophysiologiques. Les enregistrements EEG et les méthodes de mesure de connectivité fonctionnelle m'ont permis d'observer chez ce patient une augmentation du partage d'informations corticales particulièrement importante dans les régions pariétales. L'effet de la stimulation a été également confirmé par d'autres méthodes. L'imagerie métabolique a montré une augmentation généralisée de l'activité corticale et sous-corticale et les évaluations cliniques par la CRS-R ont montré une amélioration de l'état de conscience corrélée aux observations électroencéphalographiques. Ces changements induits par la stimulation du nerf vague sont prometteurs car les modifications cérébrales observées sont caractéristiques de l'amélioration des états de conscience chez les patients gravement cérébrolésés. L'ensemble de ces résultats suggèrent que le lobe pariétal constitue à la fois un corrélat important de l'état de conscience et du contenu conscient, faisant de cette région une composante essentielle de l'émergence de la conscience. De plus, nos résultats préliminaires suggèrent que la conscience peut être, au moins partiellement, restaurée. Cette découverte ouvre de toutes nouvelles perspectives pour le futur des recherches en neurosciences où, l'hypothèse d'une modulation de la plasticité cérébrale avait été oubliée
The study of consciousness is a fascinating topic of investigation with a wide field of applications and implications. Consciousness processes can be divided into two orthogonal though intimately linked components: the conscious state, that is the state of vigilance or arousal, and the conscious content which refers to the external inputs perceived and manipulated in a conscious space. Although consciousness represents the most important human dimension where people's personal events are continuously experienced and remembered, it is somewhat surprising that its underlying neural processes still sparks lot of debates. In the first part of this PhD thesis, I took advantage from a well-known sensorimotor conflict paradigm, the Nielsen task, to investigate the neural correlates of the emergence of consciousness. Starting from the principle that much of motor processing occurs outside of awareness, I adapted the Nielsen paradigm to neurally investigate how the perception of a motor conflict in healthy subjects smoothly shifted along the unaware/aware state (i.e. point of subjective equality). Using EEG recordings, I then identify the brain sources which I consider the neural fingerprint of awareness. I found that the precuneus was critical for bringing the sensorimotor conflict into awareness. I also investigated this issue from a developmental perspective by examining the performance of healthy children. Although the timing of movement correction and the quality of movement trajectory in children was similar to adult subjects, motor awareness was shifted towards higher perception thresholds while parietal cortex activity was not found. Rather, children's response to conflict awareness was linked to SMA. After having addressed the topic of awareness in this first part, I will focus more on the second component, wakefulness. Usually these two components evolve together, however there are some pathological states in which they can be dissociated. It is the case for vegetative state patients who experience a state of wakefulness without awareness. In the second part of the thesis, I investigated the challenging hypothesis of a potential return to a conscious state, in a patient lying in a vegetative state for 15 years, after vagus nerve stimulation (VNS). We report beneficial effects of VNS including improved behavioural responsiveness and reinforced brain connectivity patterns as key signs of increased consciousness. The results showed an increase of information sharing a measure of functional connectivity particularly prominent across centro-posterior regions. Converging findings, coming from different methods, showed that VNS promoted the spread of cortical signals and metabolism which we found correlated with behavioural improvement as measured with the CRS-R scale. The VNS-induced changes are promising since they seem to follow an already known connectivity pattern characterizing state of consciousness improvements. Taken together, these findings indicate that the parietal lobe constitutes the neural correlate of both state and content-specific consciousness and suggest that this region is a "hot zone" for its emergence. Moreover, our first findings in a vegetative state patient also suggest that consciousness can be potentially repaired, thus opening the way to a new avenue of research in a domain where brain plasticity was underestimated

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Sand, Anders. „Subliminal or not? : An appraisal of semantic processing in the near absence of visual awareness“. Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Perception och psykofysik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-132211.

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Stimuli that cannot be perceived (i.e., that are subliminal) can still elicit neural responses in an observer, but can such stimuli influence behavior and higher-order cognition? Empirical evidence for such effects has periodically been accepted and rejected over the last six decades. Today, many psychologists seem to consider such effects well-established and recent studies have extended the power of subliminal processing to new limits. In this thesis, I examine whether this shift in zeitgeist is matched by a shift in evidential strength for the phenomenon. This thesis consists of three empirical studies involving more than 250 participants, a simulation study, and a quantitative review. The conclusion based on these efforts is that several methodological, statistical, and theoretical issues remain in studies of subliminal processing. These issues mean that claimed subliminal effects might be caused by occasional or weak percepts (given the experimenters’ own definitions of perception) and that it is still unclear what evidence there is for the cognitive processing of subliminal stimuli. New data are presented suggesting that even in conditions traditionally claimed as “subliminal”, occasional or weak percepts may in fact influence cognitive processing more strongly than do the physical stimuli, possibly leading to reversed priming effects. I also summarize and provide methodological, statistical, and theoretical recommendations that could benefit future research aspiring to provide solid evidence for subliminal cognitive processing.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.

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Lodato, Thomas James. „A treatise on the loop as a desired form: visual feedback and relational new media“. Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33880.

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The visual feedback loop has long-been ignored as a form and an aesthetic within new media. Media theories have largely assumed a medium is defined by the material technology, relegating visual feedback to a circumstance of media rather than a unique and well-defined concept. This thesis sets forth a criteria for characterizing the visual feedback loop as a desired form, that is, a distinct set of formal and phenomenological qualities that are independent of a medium. Grounding the criteria are the cinema theories of Gilles Deleuze and Sean Cubitt; these theories propose that the cinematic image relates visual forms to generate information in decoding rather represents information directly. The thesis elaborates the theoretical concepts in examples of visual feedback loops from video (Nam June Paikâ s TV Buddha, Bruce Naumanâ s Live Taped Video Corridor), new media art (Daniel Rozinâ s physical mirrors), and digital technologies (GPS navigation systems). To reconcile the visual feedback loop within media theories, the thesis calls for a radical change in how theorists define a medium. Moving away from notions of inscription and materiality, media now rely on a collapsed distinction between sender and receiver. Hence, visual feedback loops exist as remediations of a conceptual framework rather than a technological one, and so require a logic within media theory that allow for the rise of other desired forms like the visual feedback loop.

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Mascarello, Chiara. „Self-awareness in tibetan buddhism. A study of the philosophical relevance of rang rig and its contribution to the contemporary debates on the nature of consciousness“. Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423274.

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This research examines the concept of self-awareness (svasamvedana: rang rig) as it was developed in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Self-cognition, that is, the mind’s knowing of itself, is a highly technical concept in Buddhist philosophy and, since it targets fundamental issues relating to the nature of consciousness, represents a crucial subject of debate among various scholars of the tradition. However, modern scholarship has not yet fully examined this field despite the most recent reflections upon self-awareness in the ongoing philosophical debates on subjective experience calling for a deeper study of the insights the Buddhist contemplative tradition might offer in helping to unravel the conundrum that the nature of consciousness presents. Dwelling upon the different understandings of the Buddhist notion of svasamvedana/rang rig, this dissertation mainly examines its Tibetan developments, in light of the Indian philosophical legacy, and the contribution they may offer to a universal discourse on self-awareness, mainly through dialogue with the potentials and tendencies of contemporary philosophy of mind. After a few introductory remarks, the first part of the research examines the Indian origins and main developments related to the concept of svasamvedana. I start by exploring the initial emergence of the idea of self-awareness in some pre-Dignaga Buddhist sources before taking a closer look at Dignaga’s epistemological formulation of the concept and, finally, considering the main post-Dignaga Indian developments. As such, the first part of the research is intended as an overview of the Indian Buddhist history of the idea of self-awareness that precedes its Tibetan assimilation, an important background that must be considered for a proper understanding of the Tibetan debates. The second part of the research focuses on the multidimensional relevance that the idea of rang rig acquires in the Tibetan arena. Selecting a few representative Tibetan accounts, I analyze their most relevant philosophical implications. To begin with, I discuss some aspects of the main categories that have been adopted in modern scholarship for the classification of the various understandings of self-awareness. Then, I investigate how the two main features of the intentionality and luminosity of consciousness are questioned and problematized by Tibetan scholars, analyzing the epistemological issues self-awareness entails, such as memory and the validity of cognition, and examining the role of ontology in interpreting self-awareness, especially in relation to the two truths. Moreover, I investigate the soteriological implications of rang rig in relation to spiritual breakthrough, with special reference to the rDzogs-chen view. The final section of the thesis attempts to create a dialogue between the Tibetan tradition and contemporary studies on self-awareness. These days, self-awareness is still a hot topic tightly linked to the problem of the nature of subjective experience as well as other issues such as the hard problem of consciousness, the differences between same-order and higher-order theories, the relationship between intentionality and phenomenality, and the controversial role of subjectivity. I proceed by identifying aspects and dimensions of the discourse on self-cognition where the Tibetan understandings of this concept can fruitfully meet with the problems and strands of the ongoing debates in philosophy of mind. By putting them in dialogue I analyze the resonances and differences between the legacy of the Indo-Tibetan tradition and the modern controversies that arise. What ensues from this research is an overall examination of the main accounts of the Buddhist notion of svasamvedana/rang rig, with a specific focus on the Tibetan assimilation and developments of the topic in light of the previous Indian thought upon it. These philosophical positions are unpacked, intertwined, interpreted and considered against a wider reflection upon the universal problems of self-awareness by assuming a methodological approach that allows the categorization and analysis of the challenges and nuances of the cross-cultural praxis itself. With this work I intend to follow the suggestion, recently made by a few recent scholars, to deepen and broaden our understanding of svasamvedana by putting it in relation to the contemporary sensitivity to the topic and in dialogue with comparable ongoing reflections upon the nature of consciousness. Even just scratching the surface of such a delicate, vast and complicated philosophical project, I hope to be able to tap into the mutually transformative potentials of such a cross-cultural philosophical enterprise, whose challenges now more than ever are becoming urgent, demanding but also promising.
Questa ricerca esamina il concetto di autocoscienza (svasamvedana: rang rig) come è stato sviluppato nella tradizione buddista indo-tibetana. L'autocoscienza, cioè la conoscenza che la mente ha di se stessa, è un concetto che presenta un alto livello di complessità e tecnicità all’interno della filosofia buddista e, poiché interseca questioni fondamentali relative alla natura della coscienza, rappresenta un argomento cruciale di dibattito tra i vari studiosi della tradizione. D’altra parte l'esegesi moderna non ha ancora esaminato completamente questo campo, nonostante la riflessione contemporanea sull'autoconsapevolezza e sulla natura dell’esperienza soggettiva potrebbe senza dubbio giovarsi delle intuizioni che la tradizione contemplativa buddhista offre. Approfondendo le diverse concezioni della nozione buddhista di autocoscienza, questa dissertazione esamina principalmente i suoi sviluppi nella filosofia tibetana, sia alla luce del retaggio filosofico indiano, sia considerando il contributo che essi possono offrire a un discorso universale sull'autocoscienza e sulla natura dell’esperienza, attraverso il dialogo con la filosofia della mente contemporanea.

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Kwansah-Aidoo, Kwamena. „Mass media agenda-setting and the environmental awareness of educated city dwellers in Ghana“. Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.

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