Sentences with word «psychophysical»

Whitehead recognizes that language does commonly refer to the entire psychophysical organism as the man.

Thus we reach the general idea of a God animating psychophysical event - cells.

This is particularly true with regard to psychophysical parallelism.

Second, he argues that our states of awareness, which are the psychic part of who we are as psychophysical organisms, have their existence and identity in dependence on, and relation to, our environments.

Beginning as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor, his motivation grew from an interest in chroma and psychophysical effects of these stimuli acting upon his five known senses.

Such matters can not only be disrupting in themselves, but when rebelled against in self - pity as they often are, can upset one's entire psychophysical balance including the life of prayer.

It is a simple fact, though too seldom reckoned with, that when the outgo of energy exceeds the intake one's psychophysical balance is thrown out of true, and either depression or overexcitement results.

One's theory should have a place for this «commonsense conviction in the reality of psychophysical causation» (SM 105).

In Anglo - Saxon philosophy a popular alternative to dualism is called psychophysical identism.

The Department of Cognitive Neuroscience combines human psychophysical experimentation with computational modeling.

Methods employed in cognitive neuroscience include psychophysical experiments, functional neuroimaging, electrophysiological studies of neural systems and, increasingly, cognitive genomics and behavioral genetics.

In Greece, this emerged gradually and fleetingly with only vague recognition of the problems of the relations of the soul to the total psychophysical organism.

The first of these was a 16 - month period of psychophysical upheaval during 1949 and 1950, precipitated by two factors: ordination to the priesthood (last of the institutional goals prescribed for him in the order), and the writing of The Seven Storey Mountain.

It is the single most distinguishing — and indeed formative — psychophysical attribute of the competitive swimmer.

Unpleasant music has long been used during interrogations or as a political weapon, but now it could be tailored automatically to the individual's psychophysical reactions.

Task - related activation and connectivity analysis was performed using SPM8 and context - dependent psychophysical interactions (PPI).

Psychophysical study of face identity discrimination in schizophrenia: association with facial morphology Ekstrom T, Maher S, Chen Y. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry.

Kastak et al (2005 JASA)-- Underwater temporary threshold shift in pinnipeds: Effects of noise level and duration Behavioral psychophysical techniques were used to evaluate the residual effects of underwater noise on the hearing sensitivity of three pinnipeds: a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), and a northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris).

My research is focused on the pathophysiology of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axon damage in glaucoma and detecting early - stage abnormalities by means of non-invasive imaging, psychophysical testing and electrophysiological measures such as electroretinography (ERG) and visually evoked cortical potentials (VEP).

The design was based on research of musical impact on children «s psychophysical development.

This unique musical instrument is designed to promote psychophysical and cognitive development.

Psychophysical evidence for a general temporal processing deficit in children with dyslexia

Since 1994 Canali has produced interactive installations capable of sensing and commutating psychophysical parameters into lights, sound, images and video.

Latham acquired a spray gun in 1954 from a local ironmonger shop and later that year executed his first piece with the device: a mural in the home of Clive Gregory and Anita Kohsen, two scientists whose concept of «psychophysical cosmology» — a theory that aimed at unifying mind and matter — was to have a profound impact on the artist's own philosophy.

Trained in computational linguistics and fine arts, Hecker's work deals with specific compositional developments of post-war modernity, electro - acoustic music and psychophysical domains of audition.

I counsel people with anxiety, psychophysical pain, depression, trauma, stress, relationship problems and with loss of meaning or direction.

He has completed trainings in both the Comprehensive Hakomi Body Centered Psychotherapy Method and Psychophysical Therapy for Couples.

I take this to mean that the whole psychophysical organism is a complex structured society providing a favorable environment for its component societies.1 The question is whether the soul retains social order, and so its dominant defining characteristics, apart from the body.

Probably the most widely accepted views in the United States are psychophysical identism and supervenience.

First, he shows that our bodies, which are the physical part of who we are as psychophysical organisms, have their existence and identity in dependence on, and relation to, our environments.

Using data measured in earlier atmospheric optical and psychophysical experiments, here we determine the success rate of this sky - polarimetric Viking navigation.

These terms are not identical, but they have in common a reference to the psychic side of our psychophysical nature.

In a special way, so Christian faith holds, the divine Spirit came to concrete human expression in Jesus, but God needs for his existence no psychophysical organism.

If one is a psychophysical identist, that question is unimportant.

Then the psychophysical problem of «deciding» is shifted to a combination or interpenetration of physics and religion, both of which may certainly be involved in the whole activity of deciding, but neither of which has much to say as regards its specific activity.

We have it from the sheer immediacy of the evidence, our undeniable personal experience, that some very complex, highly organized natural systems are psychophysical.