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Exploration of ‘hallucinations’.
apperception, autism, cancellation signals, corollary discharge, first-person singular pronouns, From sensation to cognition, hallucinations, illusion, magic, mind’s ear, mind’s eye, occult, perception, Psychology of Music C E Seashore 1938, psychosis, schizophrenia, supernatural, talismanic, thought broadcasting, thought echo, thought insertionVisual hallucinations are due to activation of visual memory circuits by diffuse toxicity. The auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia are not perceptions without stimuli, they are apperceptions without responses, specifically the corollary discharges that normally indicate apperceptive ownership of one’s responses to perception: apperception minus corollary discharge equals perception. Arousal that has been inhibited during childhood…
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The adolescent who feared abandonment as a child has dissembled through crypsis and has dissimulated through camouflage and mimicry. Increased arousal causes the part of the adolescent that has survived through crypsis to surface as unconditioned responses, that is delusions, while the part of the adolescent that has been inhibited irretrievably, that is, deactivated, is…
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Punctuation.
A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs, Digit ratio (2D : 4D) moderates the impact of sexual cues on men’s decisions in ultimatum games…last sentence, ellipsis, exclamation, Lateralization of face processing in the human brain…MIT community participants, parapraxis, Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals, punctuation, punctuation and meaning, Selfishness as second-order altruism, The Logic of Animal ConflictIn texts, particular attention is required for brackets, quotation marks, hyphenation, dashes and slashes; upper case, heavy type, underlining and italics: the writer may be conveying doubts, or defensive emphasis, respectively. The appearance of quotation marks around previously unquoted words in a text suggests that doubts have occurred as the author has been writing. The…
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Verbs have voices, active and passive.Sentences in which the verb is in the passive voice are longer, because of the addition of the conjugated form of the verb “to be”, so that they suit someone who wishes to hear the sound of, or have the sight of, his or her own words. The passive voice…
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Verbs have moods, designated indicative, imperative, interrogative, subjunctive and conditional. The indicative mood is preferable at work, so as to avoid the speculation of the subjunctive mood and the limiting conditions of the conditional mood. Multiple subordinate clauses in the subjunctive mood suggest pseudo-conversation.Conclusions of a scientific report should be in the subjunctive mood or…
To be or not to be. 