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Neurophysiology of Silence Part a.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ben-Soussan, Tal Dotan
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Glicksohn, Joseph, Srinivasan, Narayanan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Elsevier, 2023.
Series:Issn Series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Neurophysiology of Silence Part A: Empirical Studies
  • Copyright
  • Contributors
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Letting it go: The interplay between mind wandering, mindfulness, and creativity
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Operationalizing mind wandering
  • 2.1. When do we mind wander?
  • 2.2. Why do we mind wander?
  • 3. Being mindful
  • 4. Creativity
  • 5. Mind wandering, mindfulness and creativity
  • 5.1. The empirical study
  • 5.2. Methods
  • 5.2.1. Stimuli for creativity tasks
  • 5.2.2. Procedure
  • 5.2.2.1. Divergent thinking task
  • 5.2.2.2. Convergent thinking task
  • 5.2.2.3. Mind wandering probes
  • 5.2.2.4. Trait measure of mindfulness
  • 5.3. Results
  • 5.4. Discussion
  • 6. Meditation, mind wandering and creativity
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Evaluating brain spectral and connectivity differences between silent mind-wandering and trance states
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. The sound of silence
  • 1.1.1. External sound
  • 1.1.2. External silence
  • 1.1.3. Internal sound
  • 1.1.4. Internal silence
  • 1.2. Trance and its relationship to mental silence and mind-wandering
  • 1.3. Neural correlates of silence
  • 1.3.1. Neuroimaging of external noise
  • 1.3.2. Neuroimaging and internal silence
  • 1.3.2.1. Functional neuroimaging
  • 1.3.2.2. EEG
  • 1.3.3. EEG and mental silence during trance states
  • 1.4. EEG analysis advances support mental silence evaluation
  • 1.5. Evaluating brain connectivity during trance compared to mind-wandering
  • 2. Methods
  • 2.1. Study overview
  • 2.2. Participants
  • 2.3. Study procedures
  • 2.4. Conditions
  • 2.5. Subjective trance ratings
  • 2.6. EEG preprocessing
  • 2.7. Power spectra and connectivity
  • 2.8. Statistical analysis
  • 2.8.1. Electrode- and area-level analyses
  • 2.8.2. Connectivity-level analysis.
  • 6.4.2. Visual creativity exposure
  • 6.4.3. Neutral exposure
  • 6.5. Study procedure
  • 7. Results
  • 7.1. Differences between the study groups in the generation of conventional and novel metaphors
  • 7.2. The correlation between personality traits and generation of conventional and novel metaphors
  • 8. Discussion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: The cloud of unknowing: Cognitive dedifferentiation in whole-body perceptual deprivation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Method
  • 2.1. Whole-body perceptual deprivation (OVO-WBPD)
  • 2.2. First-person reports
  • 2.3. Semantic domains and sub-units
  • 2.4. Data coding
  • 2.5. Analyses
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1. Inter-coder agreement indexes
  • 3.2. Co-occurrence analysis
  • 3.3. Word clouds and qualitative exploration
  • 3.3.1. Altered state of consciousness
  • 3.3.2. Attentional efforts
  • 3.3.3. Mindfulness
  • 3.3.4. Mind-wandering
  • 3.3.5. Negative sensations
  • 3.3.6. Space
  • 3.3.7. Synesthesia
  • 3.3.8. Time
  • 4. Discussion
  • 5. Limitations and future directions
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Measures of music-like experience emergent in a sonic Ganzfeld: An example of perceptual structuring on the edge o
  • 1. Methods
  • 1.1. Participants
  • 1.1.1. Design and procedure
  • 2. Results
  • 3. Discussion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Increased relaxation, less boredom, and a faster passage of time during a period of silence in the forest
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Silence, exposure to silence, and noise
  • 1.2. Exposure to nature, natural sounds, and silence in natural settings
  • 1.3. ``Tended´´ vs ``wild´´ nature
  • 2. The present study
  • 3. Methods
  • 3.1. Design
  • 3.2. Participants and ethics statement
  • 3.3. Study procedures
  • 3.4. Outcome measures
  • 3.4.1. State scales on subjective time, self, space (STSS)
  • 3.4.2. State scales (VAS) on relaxation and boredom.
  • 3.4.3. State scale on emotional reactions
  • 3.4.4. Trait scales on meaning in life and oneness beliefs
  • 3.4.5. Trait scale on frequency of forest visits
  • 3.5. Statistical analysis
  • 4. Results
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Limitations
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conflict of interest
  • Author contributions
  • Notes on contributors
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Embodied empathy and abstract concepts' concreteness: Evidence from contemplative practices
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What interoception is and how it relates to emotional regulation and wellbeing
  • 1.2. Interoception and the embodiment of word meaning
  • 1.3. Interoception modulation in contemplative practices
  • 2. Methods
  • 2.1. Sample description
  • 2.2. Materials
  • 2.3. Statistical analysis
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1. Perceptual strength ratings and abstractness/concreteness rating
  • 3.1.1. Perceptual strength ratings
  • 3.1.2. Abstractness/concreteness ratings
  • 3.2. Empathy quotient and body perception questionnaire
  • 3.3. Correlations between empathy quotient, body perception questionnaire, and perceptual strength
  • 3.4. Mediation analysis on body perception questionnaire and empathy quotient mediated by interoception ratings for concepts
  • 4. Discussion
  • 4.1. Embodiment of concepts in perceptual modalities
  • 4.2. Comparing practitioners and non-practitioners
  • 4.3. The interplay between interoceptive sensibility, embodiment, and empathy in practitioners and non-practitioners
  • 5. Limitations and future research
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References.