Wandering Memory

Author : Jan J. Dominique
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813945873

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Wandering Memory by Jan J. Dominique Pdf

The daughter of Haitian journalist and pro-democracy activist Jean Léopold Dominique, who was assassinated in 2000, Jan J. Dominique offers a memoir that provides a uniquely personal perspective on the tumultuous end of the twentieth century in Haiti. Wandering Memory is her elegy for a father and an ode to a beloved, suffering homeland. The book charts the biographical, emotional, and literary journey of a woman moving from one place to another, attempting to return to her craft and put together the pieces of her life in the aftermath of family tragedy. Dominique writes eloquently about love, loss, and traumas both horrifically specific and tragically universal. For readers familiar with Jean Dominique and his life’s work at Radio Haïti, the book offers an intimate perspective on a tale of mythic proportions. For the reading public at large, it offers an approachable and resonant introduction to contemporary Haitian literature, history, and identity.

Author : Arnaud Delorme
Publisher : Welbeck
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781801292795

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Why Our Minds Wander by Arnaud Delorme Pdf

We all daydream; we've all experienced that moment when we suddenly realise that instead of paying attention in a meeting or reading a book, our mind has wandered. In that moment our conscious mind has detached from the current task at hand and drifted elsewhere. Our attention is a powerful lens which allows us to pick out and filter relevant details from the vast amounts of information our brains receive – so how does our brain decide where to go when it wanders, why does it focus on one thing over another? How important is daydreaming and why do we do it? Traditionally daydreaming was considered to be a single state of mind. However, recent research has shown that not only are there different states of daydreaming, these states are actually governed by different neurological pathways, meaning not all mind wandering is the same! Here, Arnaud Delorme PhD examines the science and theory behind why we daydream, examining its potential purpose. He shows you how to tame your 'monkey mind' and offers easy techniques that will enable you to develop the skill of mind wandering to improve your mood and foster greater creativity.

Author : David D. Preiss,Diego Cosmelli,James C. Kaufman
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128166147

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Creativity and the Wandering Mind by David D. Preiss,Diego Cosmelli,James C. Kaufman Pdf

Creativity and the Wandering Mind: Spontaneous and Controlled Cognition summarizes research on the impact of mind wandering and cognitive control on creativity, including imagination, fantasy and play. Most coverage in this area has either focused on the negative consequences of mind wandering on focused problem solving or the positive effect of mindfulness, but not on the positive consequences of mind wandering. This volume bridges that gap. Research indicates that most people experience mind wandering during a large percentage of their waking time, and that it is a baseline default mode of brain function during the awake but resting state. This volume explores the different kinds of mind wandering and its positive impact on imagination, play, problem-solving, and creative production. Discusses spontaneous and controlled processes in creativity Examines the relationship between mind wandering, consciousness, and imagination Reviews research on problem-solving, imagination, play, and learning Highlights the positive impact of mind wandering on creative thought and output

Author : Nadia Dario,Luca Tateo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031069550

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New Perspectives on Mind-Wandering by Nadia Dario,Luca Tateo Pdf

In the last decade, a great variety and volume of scholarly work has appeared on mind-wandering, a mental process involving a vast range of human life, connected with “first-person perspective” and “personhood”, submental thinking, mental autonomy, etc. While different and emerging features that flow into and out of one another (second field, mental travel, visual imagery, inner speech, unspecific memory, autobiographical memory, fantasies, introspection, etc.) and negative and positive approaches seem to describe mind-wandering, we offer an interdisciplinary theoretical and empirically informed and informative overview on mind-wandering studies and methodologies oriented toward the educational field. The aim is to transform and enrich the debate on mind-wandering but also to show how theoretical arguments and research findings could inform the teaching-learning context. This groundbreaking book, moves along three representations of developed scientific knowledge: imaginary lines, circles and spirals. The first section, “The Lines”, develops new lines of inquiry on attention (selective and sustained) and mind-wandering, the influence of age and mind-wandering, embodiment, consciousness and experience and mind-wandering. In the second section, the “Circles”, groups of Chapters on the same topic, methodology (tasks and measurement), intervention (auditory beat stimulation and mindfulness practices) and creativity, recreate a dance of interacting parts in which there are always profitable, decisive and retroactive exchanges between the information that each group or author activates. The last section, “The Spirals”, critically discusses the absence of a unified theoretical perspective, in the pedagogical field, attentive both to the processes of emergence and the interactions between parts.

Author : Michael C. Corballis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226238616

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The Wandering Mind by Michael C. Corballis Pdf

Corballis argues that mind-wandering has many constructive and adaptive features. These range from mental time travel?the wandering back and forth through time, not only to plan our futures based on past experience, but also to generate a continuous sense of who we are--to the ability to inhabit the minds of others, increasing empathy and social understanding. Through mind-wandering, we invent, tell stories, and expand our mental horizons. Mind wandering , hardly the sign of a faulty network or aimless distraction, actually underwrites creativity, whether as a Wordsworth wandering lonely as a cloud, or an Einstein imagining himself travelling on a beam of light. Corballis takes readers on a mental journey in chapters that can be savored piecemeal, as the minds of readers wander in different ways, and sometimes have limited attentional capacity.

Author : Marcus Dwight Larrowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Mnemonics
ISBN : NYPL:33433081637161

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Assimilative Memory by Marcus Dwight Larrowe Pdf

Author : Alphonse Loisette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Memory
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1H1M

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Assimilative Memory by Alphonse Loisette Pdf

Author : Michael C. Corballis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226418919

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The Wandering Mind by Michael C. Corballis Pdf

"Does the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours [finds] us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesn't think so, and with [this book], he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its ... useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis [posits that] mind-wandering not only frees us from moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves"--Amazon.com.

Author : Lucy Audley-Miller,Beate Dignas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110421514

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Wandering Myths by Lucy Audley-Miller,Beate Dignas Pdf

In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies were linked by their shared use of mythological narratives, Wandering Myths aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which such tales were disseminated cross-culturally and to investigate how they gained local resonances. In order to assess both wider geographic circulations and to explore specific local features and interpretations, a regional approach is adopted, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East and Italy. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, and cross a wide chronological span, but all are interlinked by their engagement with questions focusing on the factors that guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation. The Preface and Epilogue evaluate the material in a synoptic way and frame the challenging questions and views expressed in the Introduction.

Author : V.E. Caballo
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0080534783

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International Handbook of Cognitive and Behavioural Treatments for Psychological Disorders by V.E. Caballo Pdf

This handbook shows the wide perspective cognitive-behavioural treatment can offer to health professionals, the vast majority of whom now recognize that cognitive behavioural procedures are very useful in treating many 'mental' disorders, even if certain disciplines continue to favour other kinds of treatment. This book offers a wide range of structured programmes for the treatment of various psychological/psychiatric disorders as classified by the DSM-IV. The layout will be familiar to the majority of health professionals in the description of mental disorders and their later treatment. It is divided into seven sections, covering anxiety disorders, sexual disorders, dissociative, somatoform, impulse control disorders, emotional disorders and psychotic and organic disorders. Throughout the twenty-three chapters, this book offers the health professional a structured guide with which to start tackling a whole series of 'mental' disorders and offers pointers as to where to find more detailed information. The programmes outlined should, it is hoped, prove more effective than previous approaches with lower economic costs and time investment for the patient and therapist.

Author : Nina M. Silverstein, PhD,Gerald Flaherty,Terri Salmons Tobin, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780826196835

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Dementia and Wandering Behavior by Nina M. Silverstein, PhD,Gerald Flaherty,Terri Salmons Tobin, PhD Pdf

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award! Alzheimer's is quickly becoming the epidemic of the 21st century. Today, an estimated four million Americans suffer from this devastating disease. This number could explode to 14 million by the year 2050, when baby boomers come of age. Written in a clear and accessible style, Dementia and Wandering Behavior brings attention to this life-threatening problem and helps professionals and family caregivers understand that there are preventative measures available. By focusing on specific responses to wandering behavior and describing ways to create a safe environment in the home, community, and care facility, this book teaches you how to maximize autonomy while minimizing risk for people with dementia in your care.

Author : Richard Steele (M.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000677001

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A Remedy for Wandering Thoughts in the Worship of God. First Published in the Year 1673 by Richard Steele (M.A.) Pdf

Author : Laura Schmalzl,Catherine E. Kerr
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
ISBN : 9782889198948

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Neural Mechanisms Underlying Movement-Based Embodied Contemplative Practices by Laura Schmalzl,Catherine E. Kerr Pdf

Relative to the extensive neuroscientific work on seated meditation practices, far less studies have investigated the neural mechanisms underlying movement-based contemplative practices such as yoga or tai chi. Movement-based practices have, however, been found to be effective for relieving the symptoms of several clinical conditions, and to elicit measurable changes in physiological, neural, and behavioral parameters in healthy individuals. An important challenge for neuroscience is therefore to advance our understanding of the neurophysiological and neurocognitive mechanisms underlying these observed effects, and this Research Topic aims to make a contribution in this regard. It showcases the current state of the art of investigations on movement-based practices including yoga, tai chi, the Feldenkrais Method, as well as dance. Featured contributions include empirical research, proposals of theoretical frameworks, as well as novel perspectives on a variety of issues relevant to the field. This Research Topic is the first of its kind to specifically attempt a neurophysiological and neurocognitive characterization that spans multiple mindful movement approaches, and we trust it will be of interest to basic scientists, clinical researchers, and contemplative practitioners alike.

Author : Katie Featherstone,Andy Northcott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000182231

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Wandering the Wards by Katie Featherstone,Andy Northcott Pdf

Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care. Drawing on five years of research embedded in acute wards in the UK, the authors follow people living with dementia through their admission, shadowing hospital staff as they interact with them during and across shifts. In a major contribution to the tradition of hospital ethnography, this book provides a valuable analysis of the organisation and delivery of routine care and everyday interactions at the bedside, which reveal the powerful continuities and durability of ward cultures of care and their impacts on people living with dementia. *Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2021*

Author : G. E. W. Wolstenholme,Julie Knight
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470717356

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Control Processes in Multicellular Organisms by G. E. W. Wolstenholme,Julie Knight Pdf

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.