Search results for " mind"

Essays on early modern conceptions of consciousness: Descartes, Cudworth, and Locke

2009

Connecting the mind and body : using embodied intuition as intelligence

2022

Kriittisten globaalien tapahtumien äärellä joudutaan tekemään merkityksellisiä päätöksiä sekä ratkaisemaan monimutkaisia ongelmia. Nämä kriittiset tilanteet vaativat luovaa älykkyyttä (Harrari 2015, 258–289). Kun tämän yhdistää jatkuvasti nopeutuvaan elämäntyyliin, nousee tarve uudenlaiseen älykkyyteen. Intuitiolla on potentiaalia juuri tähän. Tämän lisäksi, jokainen yksilö on jo synnynnäisesti intuitiivinen (Raami 2020b). Tässä kirjallisuuskatsauksessa tarkastellaan intuitiota kehollisesta näkökulmasta ja kerrotaan, miten keho toimii kanavana tiedostamattoman mielen tiedostamiseen ja siten tiedostamattoman tiedon hyödyntämiseen. Kaikkia ajattelun muotoja ei ole vielä ymmärretty, ja näin ol…

Promoting Technological Thinking: The Objective and the Means

2021

Technological thinking is not a discrete form of thinking. Whether we talk about the use or the development of technology, technological thinking intersects with logic, creativity and many other human qualities. The bare definition of technological thinking is an ambiguous task, not to speak of the wide variety of attempts to promote it in education. In this paper, we do not aim at saying the final word about the appropriate means of promoting technological thinking. In the contrary, our aim is to analyse some ideas which are commonly proposed as such means but which can be argued to conflict with contemporary understanding of human thought. Our approach draws on the phenomenology of the bo…

Pragmatic and Informative “Wholes”: the Evolutionary Roots of the Human Language

2011

The study of the origins of language has been the interest of several ungrounded debates which have often affected its scientific plausibility. In this paper, aiming at an internally consistent interdisciplinary approach, I will adopt Botha´s “Windows Approach" (2006) in order to justify the following two assumptions concerning the evolutionary roots of human language: a) despite the uniqueness of human language in sharing and conveying utterances with an open-ended structure, some isolated components of our linguistic competence are somehow shared with non-human primates, grounding a line of evolutionary continuity; b) the evolutionary thesis which sustains that the very first “linguistic”…

The Two-Systems Account of Theory of Mind: Testing the Links to Social- Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities

2018

According to the two-systems account of theory of mind (ToM), understanding mental states of others involves both fast social-perceptual processes, as well as slower, reflexive cognitive operations (Frith and Frith, 2008; Apperly and Butterfill, 2009). To test the respective roles of specific abilities in either of these processes we administered 15 experimental procedures to a large sample of 343 participants, testing ability in face recognition and holistic perception, language, and reasoning. ToM was measured by a set of tasks requiring ability to track and to infer complex emotional and mental states of others from faces, eyes, spoken language, and prosody. We used structural equation m…

Social Cognition in Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Associations with Executive…

2017

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by social impairments. The first objective of this study was to analyze social cognition deficits of children with ADHD, high-functioning ASD (HFASD), and typical development (TD) in their performance on explicit and applied measures of theory of mind (ToM). The second objective was to investigate the relationships between executive functions and social cognition in HFASD and ADHD. One hundred and twenty-six 7- to 11-year old children, 52 with HFASD, 35 with ADHD, and 39 with TD, performed the NEPSY-II social perception subtests. Parents estimated their children’…

Compositional Homology and Creative Thinking

2015

The concept of homology is the most solid theoretical basis elaborated by the morphological thinking during its history. The enucleation of some general criteria for the interpretation of homology is today a fundamental tool for life sciences, and for restoring their own opening to the question of qualitative innovation that arose so powerfully in the original Darwinian project. The aim of this paper is to verify the possible uses of the concept of compositional homology in order to provide of an adequate understanding of the dynamics of creative thinking.

Is aesthetic mind a plastic mind? Reflections on Goethe and Catherine Malabou

2019

What is the relationship between thinking and seeing a form? In his morphological writings Goethe answers this question by saying that seeing is not pure passivity, but a thoughtful look because it invokes the mobility and plasticity of our thinking. For this reason this kind of aesthetic gaze is useful to understand the world of life, equally mobile and plastic. In this article, I will try to find out whether Goethe’s considerations about aesthetic idea and plasticity can find a new-look in the reflections of Catherine Malabou, one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary French debate, in whose works the concept of plastic form is central.

Corporeità e formazione: il ruolo della Danza Movimento Terapia nei corsi universitari di Scienze dell'Educazione

2019

A partire da una riflessione sulle specificità professionali degli educatori e dall'intreccio della dimensione personale con quella professionale nelle professioni educative, Il saggio tratta della necessità di adottare una nuova prospettiva formativa, che consideri l'unità mente-corpo, la dimensione artistica e la riflessività nei processi di apprendimento dei futuri educatori. Esplicita quindi le ragioni di un apprendimento dall'esperienza e sottolinea l'importanza della dimensione di gruppo, approfondendo infine le peculiarità della Danza Movimento terapia e l'efficacia di un percorso laboratoriale che utilizzi le sue metodologie Reflecting about educators professional specificities and …

Imaginary companions, theory of mind and emotion understanding in young children

2014

ABSTRACTThe phenomenon of imaginary companions (ICs) has received little attention in developmental psychology, even though it can be observed in approximately 25% of preschool-aged children. Only a few studies have investigated the effect of ICs on children's theory of mind and emotion understanding, and the results are partial or inconsistent. This study used comprehensive measures to assess emotional understanding and theory of mind in children aged four to six with ICs (N = 24) and compared their performance to that of children without ICs (N = 24). Results showed that children with ICs, regardless of age and gender, have a better theory of mind and emotion understanding than children w…