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Psychology
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Optimistic Texts: using writing to establish new paths of attention
“it’s only an image that you’ve created in your mind, yet it’s capable of stimulating physiological systems in your body that make your saliva and stomach acids” “equally, of course, even if you’re alone,…
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The War of Metaphors in Psychology and Psychotherapy
“My explanation of consciousness is far from perfect. It can be said to be just the beginning, as it breaks the curse of that cycle of ideas that made explaining consciousness impossible. I have…
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Lawrence Barsalou: Perceptual Symbols, Simulators and Simulations
Lawrence Barsalou is a psychologist and a cognitive scientist who worked on perception, memory, and language. One of his most cited works is Perceptual Symbol Systems (1999). In this section, I’m summarizing some…
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Morality, Language, and the Brain’s Spatial Bias
The word “reality” and the adjective “real” might be among the most widely used terms to describe the whole human experience of the world and the fundamental structure of the world, regardless of our…
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Stories and Narratives as a Unit for Cognitive Computational Linguistic Study
The term “narrative psychology” was introduced by psychologist Theodor Sarbin (1911–2005) in the mid-1980s. Sarbin was a pioneer in a psychological theory known as role theory, which examines behaviour and its social acceptability based…
Information Retrieval · Linguistics · Psychology · Text Analytics -
Consciousness: Knitting Threads of Our Experience
After reading Daniel Dennett’s greatest book, Consciousness Explained, I conceived the idea of knitting as a metaphor for consciousness. Consciousness can happen in multiple degrees, from a lack of acknowledgement or control to intense…
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A polyglot phenomenon: Turkish blocks other languages
In the audio lectures “the language and the mind” by Spencer Kelly, I learned how speaking more than one language can enhance cognitive control, which results from the continuous need to block the native…
Linguistics · Psychology -
The Follow Paradox
(عربي) A small radio in a bunker can make its owner feel like he’s connected to the world, even if no real mutual communication is happening with real people, the feeling of being associated…
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Answers without questions. data without base
[عربي] Short summary: If you don’t have questions, something you’re looking for, something you’re trying to prove, a hypothesis that you’re collecting information for, or at least something that interests you so that you…
Memory · Psychology