Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT
by
Amanda Williams
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Williams
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
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FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT
Amanda C de C Williams
University of London
St Thomas' Hospital
London, UK
KEYWORDS: pain; facial expression; adaptation; evolutionary psychology
ABSTRACT: This paper proposes that human expression of pain in the
presence or absence of caregivers, and the detection of pain by observers,
arise from evolved propensities. The function of pain is to demand
attention and prioritise escape, recovery and healing; where others can
help achieve these goals, effective communication of pain is required.
Evidence is reviewed of a distinct and specific facial expression of pain
from infancy to old age, consistent across stimuli, and recognizable as
pain by observers. Voluntary control over amplitude is incomplete, and
observers better detect pain which the individual attempts to suppress
than to amplify or to simulate it. In many clinical and experimental
settings, facial expression of pain is incorporated with verbal and
nonverbal-vocal activity, posture and movement in an overall category of
pain behaviour. This is assumed by clinicians to be under operant control
of social contingencies such as sympathy, caregiving, and practical help;
thus strong facial expression is presumed to constitute an attempt to
manipulate these contingencies by amplification of the normal expression.
Operant formulations support skepticism about the presence or extent of
pain, judgements of malingering, and sometimes the withholding of
caregiving and help. However, to the extent that pain expression is
influenced by environmental contingencies, "amplification" could equally
plausibly constitute release of suppression according to evolved
contingent propensities which guide behaviour. Pain has been largely
neglected in the evolutionary literature and that on pain expression, but
an evolutionary account can generate improved assessment of pain and
reactions to it.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Williams
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G a b o r F o r r a i
Department of Philosophy
University of Miskolc
Ideak es korpuszkulak: Locke tudomanyfilozofiaja
(Ideas and Copuscules: Locke's philosophy of science)
A klasszikus arisztoteleszi felfogasban a tudomany szuksegszeru
igazsagokrol tokeletesen bizonyos ismereteket nyujt. A modern,
durvan hume-ianus felfogasban, a tudomany kontingens igazsagok
fallibilis ismereteben all. Az eloadas azt kivanja bemutatni,
hogy Locke milyen szerepet jatszott a modern nezet kialakulasaban.
Diohejban a kovetkezot.
Ismeretelmeleti fomuve azzal a rendkivul pesszimista konkluzioval
zarul, hogy a termeszetrol nem lehetseges tudomany, s e
pesszimista konkluziotol a tudomanyos ismeret fogalmanak
modern atertelmezese reven lehetett legkonnyebben megszabadulni.
Az eloadas kozpontjaban az a kerdes all, hogy mikent jut
Locke erre a pesszimista konkluziora. Ennek kifejtesehez
azonban nemcsak Locke-rol kell majd beszelnem, hanem a skolasztikus
es a descartes-i tudomanyfelfogasrol, valamint a korpuszkularis-mechanista
termeszetkeprol is.
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Dear Dr. Qwerty,
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT
by
Amanda Williams
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Williams
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To
be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other
appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS
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(indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment
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_______________________________________________________
FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT
Amanda C de C Williams
University of London
St Thomas' Hospital
London, UK
KEYWORDS: pain; facial expression; adaptation; evolutionary psychology
ABSTRACT: This paper proposes that human expression of pain in the
presence or absence of caregivers, and the detection of pain by observers,
arise from evolved propensities. The function of pain is to demand
attention and prioritise escape, recovery and healing; where others can
help achieve these goals, effective communication of pain is required.
Evidence is reviewed of a distinct and specific facial expression of pain
from infancy to old age, consistent across stimuli, and recognizable as
pain by observers. Voluntary control over amplitude is incomplete, and
observers better detect pain which the individual attempts to suppress
than to amplify or to simulate it. In many clinical and experimental
settings, facial expression of pain is incorporated with verbal and
nonverbal-vocal activity, posture and movement in an overall category of
pain behaviour. This is assumed by clinicians to be under operant control
of social contingencies such as sympathy, caregiving, and practical help;
thus strong facial expression is presumed to constitute an attempt to
manipulate these contingencies by amplification of the normal expression.
Operant formulations support skepticism about the presence or extent of
pain, judgements of malingering, and sometimes the withholding of
caregiving and help. However, to the extent that pain expression is
influenced by environmental contingencies, "amplification" could equally
plausibly constitute release of suppression according to evolved
contingent propensities which guide behaviour. Pain has been largely
neglected in the evolutionary literature and that on pain expression, but
an evolutionary account can generate improved assessment of pain and
reactions to it.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Williams
======================================================================
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inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear
on what aspect of the article. We will then let you know whether it was
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Kedves Kognitiv Nepek !
Nehany erdemleges esemeny, melyre mindekit szeretettel latnak.
1. Marcius 19-en, kedden 13 orakor:
Mody Istvan: Ki a legeny a gatlason
2. ugyanaznap
14 orakor
Buzsaki Gyorgy: Infomacio tarolasa az idegrendszerben
cimmel szekfoglalot tart az MTA szekhaza Nagytermeben
(Budapest, Roosevelt ter, II. emelet)
3. Marcius 25-en hetfon mas konyvekkel egyutt a Typotex Kiado a Helikon
Konyveshazban (Bajcsi-Zsilinszky u. 37),
bemutatja
Gopnik, Meltzfoff es Kuhl:
BOLCSEK A BOLCSOBEN
c. konyvet
Csaba Pleh, professor of psychology, Center for Cognitive Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest Sztoczek u. 2 H-1111 email: pleh(a)itm.bme.hu Mobile:(36)(30)3500431
also at the Department of Psychology, University of Szeged
This year at Collegium Budapest,
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 H-2092 Hungary (36)(23)453933 Fax:932
Editor: Hungarian Review of Psychology
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
THE SELF-ORGANIZING CONSCIOUSNESS
by
Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Perruchet
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
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____________________________________________________________
THE SELF-ORGANIZING CONSCIOUSNESS
Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter
Universit de Bourgogne
LEAD/CNRS
Dijon, France
KEYWORDS: Associative learning; automatism, consciousness; development;
implicit learning; incubation; language; mental representation;
perception; phenomenal experience
ABSTRACT: We propose that the isomorphism generally observed between the
representations composing our momentary phenomenal experience and the
structure of the world is the end-product of a progressive organization
that emerges thanks to elementary associative processes that take our
conscious representations themselves as the stuff on which they operate, a
thesis that we summarize in the concept of Self-Organizing Consciousness
(SOC). We show that the SOC framework accounts for the discovery of words
and objects, and for word-object mapping. We then argue that isomorphic
representations may underlie seemingly rule-governed behavior, as is
observed in the areas of implicit learning of arbitrary structures,
language, problem solving, and automatisms. This analysis provides support
for the so-called "mentalistic" framework (e.g. Dulany, 1997), which
avoids postulating the existence of unconscious representations and
computations.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Perruchet
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Dear Dr. Qwerty,
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
THE SELF-ORGANIZING CONSCIOUSNESS
by
Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Perruchet
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To
be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other
appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS
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calls(a)bbsonline.org
The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation
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on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish
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If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS
Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar
with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. A full electronic
list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help
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____________________________________________________________
THE SELF-ORGANIZING CONSCIOUSNESS
Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter
Universit de Bourgogne
LEAD/CNRS
Dijon, France
KEYWORDS: Associative learning; automatism, consciousness; development;
implicit learning; incubation; language; mental representation;
perception; phenomenal experience
ABSTRACT: We propose that the isomorphism generally observed between the
representations composing our momentary phenomenal experience and the
structure of the world is the end-product of a progressive organization
that emerges thanks to elementary associative processes that take our
conscious representations themselves as the stuff on which they operate, a
thesis that we summarize in the concept of Self-Organizing Consciousness
(SOC). We show that the SOC framework accounts for the discovery of words
and objects, and for word-object mapping. We then argue that isomorphic
representations may underlie seemingly rule-governed behavior, as is
observed in the areas of implicit learning of arbitrary structures,
language, problem solving, and automatisms. This analysis provides support
for the so-called "mentalistic" framework (e.g. Dulany, 1997), which
avoids postulating the existence of unconscious representations and
computations.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Perruchet
___________________________________________________________
Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having
inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear
on what aspect of the article. We will then let you know whether it was
possible to include your name on the final formal list of invitees.
_______________________________________________________________________
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to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our
limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make
it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per
year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
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BOUNCE koglist(a)www.cogpsyphy.hu: Non-member submission from [Laszlo
Ropolyi <ropolyi(a)caesar.elte.hu>]
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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 02:35:14 +0100 (MET)
From: Laszlo Ropolyi <ropolyi(a)caesar.elte.hu>
To: koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu
Subject: Problems in Philosophy of Science eloadassorozat (fwd)
Ertesitjuk az erdeklodoket, hogy az ELTE Tudomanytortenet es
Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeken angol nyelvu tudomanyfilozfiai kurzust
tartunk minden erdeklodo hallgato szamara:
Problems in Philosophy of Science
Eloadok: Bojan Borstner (Maribor), Lilia Gurova (Sofia) and Mihail-Radu
Solcan (Bucharest)
13 March, 18.00: Bojan Borstner: Old battle on the new terrain: Popper and
Feyerabend on Parmenides I. (Popper's Parmenides)
20 March, 18.00: Bojan Borstner: Old battle on the new terrain: Popper and
Feyerabend on Parmenides II. (Feyerabend's Parmenides)
22 March, 14.00: Bojan Borstner: Old battle on the new terrain: Popper
and Feyerabend on Parmenides III. (Where did Popper and Feyerabend go wrong?
New interpretation of Parmenides)
24 April, 18.00: Lilia Gurova: Causation and causal explanations
26 April 14.00: Lilia Gurova: The problem of intratheoretical reduction
3 May, 18.00: Lilia Gurova: Scientific concepts and psychological
theories of concepts
8 May, 18.00: Mihail-Radu Solcan: Problems in the philosophy of psychology
Az eloadasok idopontja: szerda 6 - fel 8 es pentek 2 - fel 4 (kizarolag
a fent megjelolt napokon). Az eloadasok helye: ELTE Budapest, Lagymanyos,
Eszaki tomb, 686. terem
Tovabbi informaciok megtalalhatok a kovetkezo web cimen:
http://hps.elte.hu/
Minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk!
Ropolyi Laszlo
ELTE Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
1518 Budapest Pf. 32.
tel: 372 2949
Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Eotvos University, BudapestPazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest
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18 March 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
Language: Hungarian
T i h a m e r M a r g i t a y
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Technical University of Budapest
Quine, megismeres es kognitiv szabadsag
(Quine, cognition and cognitive freedom)
Ket alapveto tapasztalatot minden ismeretelmeletnek szem
elott kell tartania. Egyreszt, az emberek meglehetosen kulonbozo,
inkompatibilis nezeteket vallanak - azaz tekintenek tudasnak
-, masreszt, ugy tunik, megsem lehet barmit gondolni a vilagrol,
azaz nem fordul elo minden logikailag lehetseges nezet.
Ezt a ket szempontot osszekapcsolhatjuk, ha az ismeretelmelet
alapkerdeseit - mi a tudas, es hogyan dontheto el egy hitrol,
hogy tudas-e? - a szabadsag segitsegevel fogalmazzuk meg.
Mennyiben all szabadsagunkban azt tekinteni tudasnak, amit
akarunk, illetve azt tudni, amit akarunk? Nyilvan mar csak
az elozoek alapjan is feltetelezhetjuk, hogy bizonyos kenyszerek,
illetve feltetelek korlatozzak e szabadsagunkat. Ebben az
osszefuggesben az ismeretelmeleti elemzes feladata e korlatok,
feltetelek felderitese, es a kognitiv szabadsag hatarainak
felterkepezese. Milyen korlatok akadalyozhatjak meg, hogy
a legvadabb kepzelgeseinket tudasnak tekintsuk, es milyen
szabadsag all az alkoto fantazia rendelkezesere? Az eloadasban
a quinei meghatarozatlansagi tezisek (aluldeterminaltsag,
holizmus) altal biztositott kognitiv szabadsagot vizsgalom.
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WHAT CATATONIA CAN TELL US ABOUT "TOP-DOWN MODULATION":
A NEUROPSYCHIATRIC HYPOTHESIS
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WHAT CATATONIA CAN TELL US ABOUT "TOP-DOWN MODULATION":
A NEUROPSYCHIATRIC HYPOTHESIS
George Northoff, MD PhD, PhD
Harvard University
Beth Israel Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: Catatonia; Parkinson's disease; Top-down modulation; Bottom-up
modulation; Horizontal modulation; Vertical modulation
ABSTRACT: Differentialdiagnosis of motor symptoms, as for example
akinesia, may be difficult in clinical neuropsychiatry. They may be either
of neurologic origin, as for example Parkinson's disease, or psychiatric
origin, as for example catatonia, leading to a so-called "conflict of
paradigms". Despite their different origin symptoms may appear clinically
more or less similar. Possibility of dissociation between origin and
clinical appearance may reflect functional brain organisation in general
and cortical-cortical/subcortical relations in particular. It is therefore
hypothesized that similarities and differences between Parkinson's disease
and catatonia may be accounted for by distinct kinds of modulation between
cortico-cortical and cortico-subcortical relations. Comparison between
Parkinson's disease and catatonia reveals distinction between two kinds of
modulation "vertical and horizontal modulation". "Vertical modulation"
concerns cortical-subcortical relations and allows apparently for
bidirectional modulation. This is reflected in possibility of both
"top-down and bottom-up modulation" and appearance of motor symptoms in
both Parkinson's disease and catatonia. "Horizontal modulation" concerns
cortical-cortical relations and allows apparently only for unidirectional
modulation. This is reflected in one-way connections from prefrontal
cortex to motor cortex and absence of major affective and behavioural
symptoms in Parkinson's disease. It is concluded that comparison between
Parkinson's disease and catatonia may reveal the nature of modulation of
cortico-cortical and cortico-subcortical relations in further detail.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Northoff
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