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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Editorial: Credition—An interdisciplinary approach to the nature of beliefs and believing
2023 •
Hans-ferdinand Angel
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Mindfulness in the focus of the neurosciences - The contribution of neuroimaging to the understanding of mindfulness
Bruno J . Weder
BackgroundMindfulness affects human levels of experience by facilitating the immediate and impartial perception of phenomena, including sensory stimulation, emotions, and thoughts. Mindfulness is now a focus of neuroimaging, since technical and methodological developments in magnetic resonance imaging have made it possible to observe subjects performing mindfulness tasks.ObjectiveWe set out to describe the association between mental processes and characteristics of mindfulness, including their specific cerebral patterns, as shown in structural and functional neuroimaging studies.MethodsWe searched the MEDLINE databank of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics via PubMed using the keywords: “mindfulness,” “focused attention (FA),” “open monitoring (OM),” “mind wandering,” “emotional regulation,” “magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)” and “default mode network (DMN).” This review extracted phenomenological experiences across populations with varying degrees of min...
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Believing and social interactions: effects on bodily expressions and personal narratives
Rüdiger J . Seitz
The processes of believing integrate external perceptual information from the environment with internal emotional states and prior experience to generate probabilistic neural representations of events, i.e., beliefs. As these neural representations manifest mostly below the level of a person’s conscious awareness, they may inadvertently affect the spontaneous person’s bodily expressions and prospective behavior. By yet to be understood mechanisms people can become aware of these representations and reflect upon them. Typically, people can communicate the content of their beliefs as personal statements and can summarize the narratives of others to themselves or to other people. Here, we describe that social interactions may benefit from the consistency between a person’s bodily expressions and verbal statements because the person appears authentic and ultimately trustworthy. The transmission of narratives can thus lay the groundwork for social cooperation within and between groups an...
Frontiers in Psychology
Pathways and crossroads to creditions: Insights from a retrospective view
2022 •
Hans-ferdinand Angel
Frontiers in Psychology
Believing is Seeing: A Buddhist Theory of Creditions
2022 •
Jed Forman
The creditions model is incredibly powerful at explaining both how beliefs are formed and how they influence our perceptions. The model contains several cognitive loops, where beliefs not only influence conscious interpretations of perceptions downstream but are active in the subconscious construction of perceptions out of sensory information upstream. This paper shows how this model is mirrored in the epistemology of two central Buddhist figures, Digna ̄ga (480–540 CE) and Dharmak ̄ırti (c. 550–650 CE). In addition to showing these parallels, the paper also demonstrates that by drawing on Digna ̄ga and Dharmak ̄ırti’s theory, we can extend the explanatory power of the creditions model. Namely, while creditions explain how beliefs influence both the conscious interpretation and subconscious construction of sensory information, Digna ̄ga and Dharmak ̄ırti suggest beliefs can even be generative of sensory-like information. I recruit ancient Buddhist texts in conjunction with contemporary cognitive science scholarship to offer a hypothesis for the cognitive mechanisms responsible for this.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Emotion recognition in evolving facial expressions: A matter of believing
2023 •
Rüdiger J . Seitz
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Leadership and credition: Followers' neural response to leaders who are perceived as transformational
Sabine Bergner
Frontiers in Psychology
Grounding abstract concepts and beliefs into experience: The embodied perspective
Ivan Colagè
The architecture of creditions: Openness and otherness
2022 •
Oliver Davies
“Creditions” are an important new idea within our contemporary understanding of the human. They potentially represent the unity of both humanistic and scientific ways of modeling the human. As such, “creditions” offer a bridge between current thinking in science and the humanities and the development of a more powerfully integrated interdisciplinary hermeneutic. It is argued in this article that the questions posed by “creditions” (as developed by Rüdiger Seitz and Hans-Ferdinand Angel) cannot be resolved through reduction but rather only through cohesive systematization. In contrast with coherence in conventional science, “credition-centered” thinking finds expression in systemic ways. The complex humanity of the reflective subject resists reduction; and calls to be analyzed in terms of sociality, the identification of “otherness” and interactive engagement. In this context then a thinking which is attuned to complexity and to otherness has an important place in the expression of the social subject as a complex and relational self, in today’s world. These are not however social realities as we find them either in large-scale social schemata, or indeed in the intimacy of the face to face. Rather credition-centered learning falls between these two categories and is best described as “the productive knowledge of community,” where community is generated by productive enhancement and the embrace of otherness over time.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Revealing the Cognitive Neuroscience of Belief
Peter W Halligan
