Meditation – Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications. 1st ed. 2014

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電子ブック

責任表示:

edited by Stefan Schmidt, Harald Walach

出版情報:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014

著者名:

• Schmidt, Stefan.
• Walach, Harald.
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シリーズ名:

Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality ; 2

ISBN:

9783319016344 [3319016342]    

注記:

Introduction: Laying out the Field of Meditation Research, S. Schmidt, H. Walach.-Towards an Epistemology of Inner Experience, H. Walach -- The Meditative Approach to Awaken Selfless Insight, W.J.H. Austin -- Meditation as First-Person Methodology: Real Promise—and Problems, J. Shear -- Using First-Person Reports during Meditation to Investigate Basic Cognitive Experience, W. Hasenkamp -- I am I from moment to moment: Methods and results of grasping intersubjective and intertemporal neurophysiological differences during Meditation states, T. Hinterberger -- Does neuroimaging provide evidence of meditation-mediated neuroplasticity? S. Clausen, et al -- Opening up Meditation for Science: The development of a meditation classification system, S. Schmidt -- The Neurobiology of Meditation and Mindfulness T. Esch -- Meditation Effects in the Social Domain: Self-Other Connectedness as a General Mechanism? F-M. Trautwein, et al -- Mindfulness Meditation and the Experience of Time, M. Wittmann and S. Schmidt -- Medita
This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of consciousness or are there different states that can be discriminated? Are so called “higher states of consciousness” that some people report during meditation pointing towards a new understanding of consciousness? Meditation research is a new discipline that shows new inroads into the study of consciousness. If a meditative practice changes brain structure itself this is direct proof of the causal influence of consciousness onto its substrate. If different states of consciousness can be linked with properties and states of the brain this can be used to study consciousness more directly. If the sense of self is modifiable through meditative techniques and this can be objectively shown through neuro-imaging, this has profound implications for ou

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