Carl Jung - Approaching the Unconscious

2012 Brain Corporation Prize in Computational Neuroscience The Winners The award ceremony of Brain Corporation Prize in Computational Neuroscience is at the Computational Neuroscience (CNS'13) meeting in Paris on July 16, 16:10. First Place (426 G+1): Alex H Williams et al. (2013) Homeostatic Regulation of Neuronal Excitability. Scholarpedia, 8(1):1656. Is this the first ever direct evidence for human mirror neurons? Mirror neurons are one of the most hyped concepts in psychology and neurocience. V.S. Ramachandran famously wrote that they will 'do for psychology what DNA did for biology'. Although recordings from single cells in the brains of monkeys have identified 'mirror' neurons that respond both to the execution of a movement and the observation of another agent performing that same movement, the existence of such cells in humans has, up until now, been inferred only from indirect evidence, particularly brain imaging. Now Roy Mukamel and colleagues have provided what appears to be the first ever direct evidence, using implanted electrode recordings of single cells, for the existence of mirror neurons in humans.

Metaplasticity Metaplasticity refers to activity-dependent changes in neural functions that modulate subsequent synaptic plasticity such as long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD). Simply put, it is the “plasticity of synaptic plasticity” (Abraham and Bear, 1996). Metaplasticity can be distinguished from conventional neuromodulation of plasticity, in which molecules such as other neurotransmitters (e.g., GABA or monoamines), cytokines, or hormones that are present at the time of plasticity induction regulate the degree of LTP or LTD elicited (Fig. 1). Metaplasticity, in contrast, refers to neuronal changes that are elicited at one point in time, by what is commonly called “priming” activity. By virtue of their persistence, these neuronal changes are able to regulate synaptic plasticity processes minutes, hours, or days later. Functionally, metaplasticity endows synapses with the capacity to integrate plasticity-relevant signals across time.

Boundaries of the mind Thin and thick boundaries[edit] Measurement[edit] The Boundary Questionnaire consists of 145 five-point scales covering the following 12 areas: C.G.JUNG Los escritos de Freud constituyeron una experiencia fundamental en los estudios de Jung. La Interpretación de los sueños lo impresionó notablemente. En 1906 Jung le envió a Freud una copia de su libro Psicología de la demencia precoz y éste le respondió con agradecimiento y críticas. The Philosophy of Music 1. What Is Music? 1.1 Beyond ‘Pure’ Music In most of this entry, the discussion focuses on ‘pure’ or ‘absolute’ music – instrumental music that has no accompanying non-musical components. Consciousness 1. History of the issue Questions about the nature of conscious awareness have likely been asked for as long as there have been humans.

Hard problem of consciousness The existence of a "hard problem" is controversial and has been disputed by some philosophers.[4][5] Providing an answer to this question could lie in understanding the roles that physical processes play in creating consciousness and the extent to which these processes create our subjective qualities of experience.[3] Several questions about consciousness must be resolved in order to acquire a full understanding of it. These questions include, but are not limited to, whether being conscious could be wholly described in physical terms, such as the aggregation of neural processes in the brain. If consciousness cannot be explained exclusively by physical events, it must transcend the capabilities of physical systems and require an explanation of nonphysical means.

Intuition pump In the case of the Chinese Room argument, Dennett argues that the intuitive notion that a person manipulating symbols seems inadequate to constitute any form of consciousness ignores the requirements of memory, recall, emotion, world knowledge and rationality that the system would actually need to pass such a test. "Searle does not deny that programs can have all this structure, of course," Dennett says.[2] "He simply discourages us from attending to it. But if we are to do a good job imagining the case, we are not only entitled but obliged to imagine that the program Searle is hand-simulating has all this structure — and more, if only we can imagine it. But then it is no longer obvious, I trust, that there is no genuine understanding of the joke going on." A popular strategy in philosophy is to construct a certain sort of thought experiment I call an intuition pump [...].

Digitale Lehre: Harvard für alle Kostenlos studieren bei den berühmtesten Professoren des Landes: Die Online-Kurse der US-Elite-Unis machen das möglich. Nur wer soll die Angebote am Ende finanzieren? Speichern Drucken Twitter Philosophy of mind A phrenological mapping[1] of the brain – phrenology was among the first attempts to correlate mental functions with specific parts of the brain Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness, and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain. The mind–body problem, i.e. the relationship of the mind to the body, is commonly seen as one key issue in philosophy of mind, although there are other issues concerning the nature of the mind that do not involve its relation to the physical body, such as how consciousness is possible and the nature of particular mental states.[2][3][4] Mind–body problem[edit] Our perceptual experiences depend on stimuli that arrive at our various sensory organs from the external world, and these stimuli cause changes in our mental states, ultimately causing us to feel a sensation, which may be pleasant or unpleasant.