Mental Processes

Is there any visual representation or modeling of mental disorders or mental process ?

Is there any visual representation or modeling of mental disorders (such us obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, Alzheimer's disease) or mental process or cognitive function (such us...

12 December 2015 9,581 0 View

Have you any suggestions of I.C.T. usage, tools, and experiments, to monitor, access and intervene in order to raise meta-cognition abilities?

Meta-cognition is the ability of self awareness of your own mental processes. Maslow's existential theory, Young's  theory of Self, Neo-Platonic theories, ICTs, Neural Networks etc

08 August 2015 2,732 5 View

What is the base the knowledge jumps from and comes back to?

Is it that one needs knowledge or the society makes one knowledgeable? Or is it that nature mandates the organisms to know and have knowledge?

08 August 2015 1,951 0 View

According to neo and modern skepticism, reason is not given the opportunity to know the truth. How can it guide the moral behavior of man ?

Aenesidemus of Knossos, Agrippa and Sextus Empiricus are representatives of a further development of ancient skepticism. In their radical skepticism, these thinkers argue that nothing can be known...

08 August 2015 8,069 1 View

Have you any suggestions of I.C.T. usage, tools, and experiments, to monitor, access and intervene in order to raise meta-cognition abilities?

Meta-cognition is the ability of self awareness of your own mental processes. Maslow's existential theory, Young's  theory of Self, Neo-Platonic theories, ICTs, Neural Networks etc

04 August 2015 1,872 4 View

Do you know researchs about mentalizing or reflection processes in children?

I am interested in investigating from a psychodynamic perspective imaginary, reflection or mentalizing processes in children,  in their interaction with behavioral disorders and other disorders.

07 July 2015 8,220 0 View

What is the easiest and quickest (screening) method to evaluate the degree (mild, moderate or severe) of intellectual disability?

We aim to investigate the prevalence of mental disorder in individuals with intellectual disability in Portugal, and it would be important to administer a simple screening tool to divide the...

03 March 2015 2,097 5 View

How brain thinks?

I am curious to know how the brain thinks. I'm appreciated for any opinion/resource. Thanks in advance.

01 January 2015 6,005 18 View

Concept Maps and Reading Comprehension Paperback – July 3, 2014 by Morteza Bakhtiarvand (Author) Be the first to review this item

Reading for meaning is a communicative process and involves mental processes similar to those of the other three language skills, that is, activation of relevant knowledge and related language...

08 August 2014 1,964 1 View

How commonly do patients with unilateral brain damage exhibit breakdown at the level of spoken, but not written, production abilities?

I asked a participant with left-hemisphere brain damage due to stroke to write the date, as well as his birthdate. He was able to successfully write the date and his birthdate multiple times, but...

15 October 2013 4,766 7 View

How commonly do patients with unilateral brain damage exhibit breakdown at the level of spoken, but not written, production abilities?

I asked a participant with left-hemisphere brain damage due to stroke to write the date, as well as his birthdate. He was able to successfully write the date and his birthdate multiple times, but...

10 October 2013 5,677 8 View

Is there a relationship between mental processes and response to stimuli and the human heart?

1- Is there a connection between thinking and the human heart ? 2. Is there a study of mental processes that proves that the heart has a significant role in directing behavior ?

01 January 1970 9,612 6 View

Aphantasia and Design

I’ve just discovered that I am aphantasic. This means that my mind’s eye is blind. I am unable to visualise anything. If I close my eyes and try to imagine something everything just stays black....

01 January 1970 3,008 6 View

How can we take a good decision?

Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes (cognitive process) resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. The more alternatives, the more...

01 January 1970 8,336 6 View

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01 January 1970 7,737 0 View

How can we take a good decision?

Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes (cognitive process) resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. The more alternatives, the more...

01 January 1970 3,420 5 View

Aphantasia and Design

I’ve just discovered that I am aphantasic. This means that my mind’s eye is blind. I am unable to visualise anything. If I close my eyes and try to imagine something everything just stays black....

01 January 1970 8,879 5 View

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