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The Neurophysiology of Silence (C).

This volume, part of the 'Progress in Brain Research' series, explores the intricate relationships between creativity, aesthetic experience, and time perception. Edited by Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan, Joseph Glicksohn, and Narayanan Srinivasan, it delves into topics such as the attentional dynam...

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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 Science & Technology, 2024.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Issn Series.
Subjects:
Cognitive neuroscience.
Creative ability.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • The Neurophysiology of Silence (C): Creativity, Aesthetic Experience and Time
  • Copyright
  • Contributors
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • References
  • Chapter One: The sands of time: Discontinuity in time production, or inadequacy of psychophysical fit?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Method
  • 2.1. Participants
  • 2.2. OVO whole-body perceptual deprivation (WBPD)
  • 2.3. Time production task
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1. Produced vs. target durations: Outliers
  • 3.2. Produced vs. target durations: Non-outliers
  • 3.3. Post vs. pre time productions
  • 4. Discussion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter Two: Disinterested attention and aesthetic experience
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Aesthetic experience
  • 3. Distributed attention and aesthetic experience
  • 4. A critique of distributed attention
  • 5. Attentional dynamics of aesthetic experience
  • 6. Neuroscience of aesthetic experience
  • 7. Mindfulness and aesthetic experience
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter Three: Aesthetic valence: Psychophysical perspectives
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Aesthetic valence and sensory magnitude: How special is beauty?
  • 1.1.1. Similarity of order effects
  • 1.1.2. Common evolutionary foundation
  • 1.2. What makes an object beautiful?
  • 1.2.1. Arousal and pleasure: The Wundt curve
  • 1.2.2. Adaptation and discrepancy
  • 1.2.3. Fashion
  • 1.2.4. Information load
  • 1.3. Empirical results
  • 1.3.1. Aesthetic valence
  • 1.3.2. Beautiful vs. Modern
  • 1.3.3. Effects of gender and personality on judged modernity
  • 1.3.4. Interrelations of Modern, Hard-to-access, and Beautiful
  • 2. Discussion
  • 2.1. Empirical typology of art
  • 2.1.1. Factor-analytic study
  • 2.1.2. Factors and their interpretation
  • 2.1.3. Art types and art preferences
  • 3. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References.
  • Chapter Four: The Alzheimer´s patients interaction through digital and arts (AIDA) program: A feasibility study to improv ...
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methods
  • 2.1. Experimental design and participants
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1. People with AD
  • 3.2. Caregivers
  • 3.3. Program effectiveness and feasibility
  • 4. Discussion
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter Five: HRV and EEG correlates of well-being using ultra-short, portable, and low-cost measurements
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methods
  • 2.1. Participants
  • 2.2. Well-being data collection
  • 2.3. EEG and ECG data collection
  • 2.4. Signal processing
  • 2.4.1. EEG
  • 2.4.2. ECG
  • 2.5. Statistics
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1. Signal quality
  • 3.2. Well-being, EEG, and HRV
  • 4. Discussion
  • 4.1. Results summary
  • 4.1.1. Signal quality
  • 4.1.2. WB and HRV
  • 4.1.3. WB and EEG
  • 4.1.4. EEG and HRV
  • 4.2. Limitations
  • 4.3. Future directions
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter Six: The logic of silence
  • 1. Variations on silence
  • 2. The notion of silence
  • 3. Structuralism: Clouds and hexagons
  • 4. Articulation of a hexagon for silence
  • 5. Symphony of hexagons
  • References
  • Chapter Seven: Creativity and consciousness in motion: The roundtrip of ``mindful´´ and ``mindless´´ processes in embodie ...
  • 1. From the mind-body problem to ``mindful´´ and ``mindless´´ moving: Falling into dualism in the attempt to escape it?
  • 2. A way out of the mind-body dichotomy and of the dominance of mind over body: Embodied cognition, embodied emotion and ...
  • 3. From embodiment to the least physical aspects of creativity: Unconsciousness, incubation and mind wandering
  • 4. Taking more steps to give ideas some legs: Exercise and greenness foster creative thinking
  • 5. Conclusions and outlook for research and application
  • References.
  • Chapter Eight: Silence between words: Is solitude important for relatedness?
  • 1. Solitude and loneliness
  • 2. Harms of loneliness
  • 3. Benefits of solitude
  • 4. Solitude and imagination
  • 5. Solitude and interoception
  • 6. Solitude and spirituality
  • 7. Do digital technologies disturb solitude?
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter Nine: Time consciousness: Silence, mindfulness, and subjective time perception
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Perception of time during silence
  • 3. Perception of time during mindfulness-based interventions
  • 4. Discussion
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter Ten: When the body fosters empathy: The interconnectivity between bodily reactivity, meditation, and embodied abs ...
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methods
  • 2.1. Participants and experimental design
  • 2.2. Statistical analysis
  • 3. Results
  • 4. Discussion
  • 4.1. Meditation and empathy
  • 4.2. Bodily reactivity and empathy
  • 4.3. Embodiment of abstract concepts and empathy
  • 5. Conclusions, limitations and future directions
  • References
  • Chapter Eleven: Is life going too fast? Exploring the unique and joint contributions of mindfulness, temperament, task lo ...
  • Introduction
  • 1. Similarities between temperament and mindfulness
  • 2. Method
  • 2.1. Participants
  • 2.2. Measures
  • 2.2.1. Questionnaire about the subjective passage of time
  • 2.2.2. TP and task load
  • 2.2.3. Metacognitions about time
  • 2.2.4. Trait mindfulness
  • 2.2.5. Temperament
  • 2.3. Procedure
  • 3. Data analyses
  • 4. Results
  • 4.1. Multiple regressions and global partitioning of variances
  • 4.2. Dominance analyses and interactions
  • 4.3. Commonality analyses
  • 5. Discussion
  • 5.1. Block 1 analyses: Mindfulness and temperament
  • 5.2. Block 2 analyses: Adding task load, metacognitions about time, and TP or PoTJ.
  • 6. Summary of findings, study limits, and future directions
  • Conflict of interest
  • Additional information
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter Twelve: Increased wakefulness as measured by the WAKE-16 is related to mindfulness and emotional self-regulation ...
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Temporary awakening experiences
  • 1.2. Measuring wakefulness as an ongoing state
  • 2. Methods
  • 2.1. Participants
  • 2.2. Meditation group
  • 2.3. Meditation experience of control group
  • 2.4. Measures
  • 2.4.1. Inventory of secular/spiritual wakefulness (WAKE-16)
  • 2.4.2. Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory
  • 2.4.3. Scales for experiencing emotions (Skalen zum Erleben von Emotionen
  • SEE)
  • 3. Results
  • 4. Discussion
  • 5. Limitations
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Conflict of interests
  • Author contributions
  • Notes on contributors
  • References.