Gert @Gert@qoto.org

What makes us social and what does it tell us about mental disorders?
#neuroscience #socialscience #psychology #sociology
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546805.2024.2307958

We tend to think of delusions as factually inaccurate. However, we don’t often consider how, by invalidating them, we also undermine the agency of those who hold them. This is a mistake, argues philosopher Lisa Bortolotti. If we examine the content of our delusions against the environment which influenced them, they reveal the very ways humans engage in active meaning-making, the ultimate mark of human agency.
#psychology #neuroscience #philosophy
https://iai.tv/articles/delusions-shape-our-reality-auid-2772

Developing validated tests for consciousness (C-tests) applicable to many different systems is a key challenge for consciousness science.
#neuroscience #consciousness
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(24)00010-X

Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especially in high individual autonomy societies
#nature #neuroscience #socialscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55815-x

Researchers propose a groundbreaking hypothesis, linking chronic stress and inflammation to societal and cognitive dysfunction on a global scale. They suggest that the brain’s ‘central inflammation map’ could be impaired by chronic inflammation, affecting individual and collective decision-making, and behaviors.

The spread of stress and inflammation through digital communication accelerates this process, potentially leading to a cycle of societal dysfunction and environmental degradation. The study emphasizes the need for multi-level interventions, including lifestyle changes and societal education, to break this cycle.
#neuroscience
https://neurosciencenews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/neurosciencenews.com/stress-inflammation-cognition-social-25738/amp/

Sua maestà l’ippocampo
#neuroscience

The prefrontal cortex: from monkey to man
#neuroscience
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/147/3/794/7424860

Cognition Without Computation
Just because a theory is old doesn’t mean it’s correct
#computation #neuroscience
https://spectrum-ieee-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/spectrum.ieee.org/amp/computational-cognitive-science-2655365553

Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science, traces the historical evolution of our understanding of the phenomenon.
#neuroscience #art #philosophy
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-200-year-history-of-synesthesia/

The Brain-Body Connection in Emotions
#neuroscience #psychology
https://www-psychologytoday-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cant-stress-this-enough/202311/the-brain-body-connection-in-emotions?amp

Aphantasia
#psychology #neuroscience
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/feb/26/what-is-aphantasia-like

Empathy, often considered a fixed trait, has been shown to be malleable in adults, influenced by observing the empathetic reactions of others. The study utilized Computational Modeling and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate how empathy levels adjust in adult brains based on social environments.
#neuroscience #ethic #socialpsychology #empathy
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313073121

According to this study published in Current Biology, very-low frequency (VLF) speakers pumping out deep bass makes people dance harder and the scientists behind the study don’t know why.
#neuroscience
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2822%2901535-4

I contenuti visivi disponibili su piattaforme come Google Images rafforzano gli stereotipi di genere più dei contenuti testuali. Questo studio indica che le immagini online mostrano pregiudizi di genere più forti nei confronti degli uomini ed hanno un impatto psicologico più duraturo rispetto ai contenuti testuali. Gli effetti, inoltre, perdurano ancora dopo tre giorni.

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Visual content on platforms like Google Images reinforces gender stereotypes more strongly than textual content. This pioneering study indicates that online images not only display a stronger bias towards men but also leave a more lasting psychological impact compared to text, with effects still notable after three days.
#bias #psychology #neuroscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07068-x

Is Deep Learning rubbish?… Yes, It Is.
#deeplearning #ai #neuroscience #philosophy
https://i.devol.it/watch?v=SYQ8Siwy8Ic

#emotions #neuroscience
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaw8160

It seems that the entire analysis is developed starting from a modular and mechanistic perspective which is very suitable for machines but very little for human life. In the article, life is conceived in the light of criteria such as competition, optimization and mere survival, neglecting what for humans is the basis of every action: intentionality (why? with whom? against whom?…). In terms of mere survival, a sophisticated neurological evolution is not even necessary: jellyfish have existed for thousands of years without any particular evolution of their nervous system. Last but not least, artificial neural networks and the entire paradigm of Artificial Intelligence were founded on the Kantian perspective of thought and life, a legitimate choice from a research point of view which however greatly restricts the possibilities of understanding the phenomenon of life, reducing thought and reason to the emerging product of logical operations (Boolean algebra) carried out through the mechanical dynamics of logic gates.
#ai #neuroscience #brain
https://iai.tv/articles/ai-needs-the-constraints-of-the-human-brain-auid-2728

Ho dormito un po’ più del solito questa mattina,.e.mi sono sentito in colpa. Poi ho letto questo articolo, e mi sono subito sentito “a posto” 😂
#neuroscience
https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-brain-health-22545/

#neuroscience
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920307400?via%3Dihub

At the origins of the German debate on Einfühlung lie not only visual, optical and spatial issues (Vischer, Lipps) but exquisitely literary phenomena. In particular one genre, that of tragedy, and two categories, namely das Tragische and die Tragik, are the subject of extensive reflection. There is thus a literary birth of the theory of Einfühlung, and if today we have extraordinary analyses of empathy in the novel (Keen) the question remains why the theme of the tragic and tragedy, which lies at the center of the early interests of the psychology of Einfühlung (Lipps, Volkelt, Groos), has almost disappeared from the horizon of the study of empathy, while it is obviously essential to understanding the debate on “negative” and “mixed” emotions.
#neuroscience #humanity
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJg0YiWt5Y