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Interoception and dissociative experiences: unveiling the relationship between bodily awareness and altered sense of self
No full textA stable and coherent representation of the bodily Self arises from integrating internal (interoceptive) and external (exteroceptive) signals. Dissociation (depersonalization) is a deficit of self-awareness that may affect the whole sense of self. The aim of the present study is to observe whether scarce interoceptive abilities are associated with a higher tendency for spontaneous and induced dissociative experiences. 83 healthy participants (age=24.11±2.31) completed the Dissociation Questionnaire (DIS-Q) to measure dissociative traits, and the MAIA-II to assess interoceptive sensibility. To induce state dissociative experiences, participants performed the Mirror Gazing Task (MGT) in two conditions: under poor lighting (to induce dissociative state) and normal lighting (control condition). Before and after the MGT conditions, interoceptive accuracy was measured using the Heartbeat Counting Task (HCT) and the Clinician-Administered Dissociative States Scale (CADSS) was filled out after each condition to assess participants’ state dissociation and bodily self-consciousness. Results showed that the MGT was effective in inducing state dissociation, as indexed by CADDS scores. Furthermore, dissociative feelings (CADSS-Total scores) negatively correlated with interoceptive sensibility (MAIA Noticing: r = -0.27, p = 0.01). Similarly, trait dissociation was negatively associated to interoceptive sensibility (MAIA Trusting: r = -0,5, p = 0.01). No modulation in the HCT was found across MGT conditions. These findings identify a relationship between non-pathological state dissociation and interoceptive sensibility, specifically interoceptive components related to affective aspects of visceral signals. Further studies on clinical populations are needed to shed light on the interoception-dissociation relationship
Exploring the interplay between interoception and dissociative experiences: insights from a non-clinical population
No full textThe critical contribution of interoceptive signals to bodily self-awareness and self-consciousness has recently been investigated by an increasing number of studies. Also, it has recently been suggested that interoceptive dysfunction can prove to be an important component of many neurological and psychiatric disorders (i.e. dissociative disorders, eating disorders, PTSD, somatic disorders), some of which exhibit overlapping characteristics with disorders characterized by increased dissociative tendencies. This observation hints at a potential underlying connection between interoception and dissociation, the exploration of which could provide valuable insights into the concept of Self and the diagnosis and management of related disorders. Given the significance of this relationship, this study aimed to directly investigate this relationship within a non-clinical population, observing whether scarce interoceptive abilities were associated with a
higher tendency for spontaneous and induced dissociative experiences (using the Mirror Gazing Task). Findings showed that the MGT was effective in inducing state dissociation. Furthermore, dissociative feelings negatively correlated with interoceptive sensibility and, similarly, trait dissociation was negatively associated to interoceptive sensibility. Induced or spontaneous non- clinical dissociation, instead, was not associated with changes in interoceptive accuracy (as measured via the Heartbeat Counting Task). These results identify a relationship between non- pathological state and trait dissociation and interoceptive sensibility, specifically interoceptive components related to the trustworthiness and awareness of visceral signals. Considering the important role of interoception in shaping bodily self-awareness and self-consciousness, we are currently investigating the relationship between visceral self-awareness and dissociative traits in Anorexia Nervosa
Interoception and dissociative experiences: unveiling the relationship between bodily awareness and altered sense of self
No full textA stable and coherent representation of the bodily Self arises from integrating internal (interoceptive) and external (exteroceptive) signals. Dissociation (depersonalization) is a deficit of self-awareness that may affect the whole sense of self. The aim of the present study is to observe whether scarce interoceptive abilities are associated with a higher tendency for spontaneous and induced dissociative experiences.
83 healthy participants (age=24.11±2.31) completed the Dissociation Questionnaire (DIS-Q) and the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) to measure dissociative traits, and the MAIA-II to assess interoceptive sensibility. To induce state dissociative experiences, participants performed the Mirror Gazing Task (MGT) in two conditions: under poor lighting (to induce dissociative state) and normal lighting (control condition). Before and after the MGT conditions interoceptive accuracy was measured using the Heartbeat Counting Task (HCT) and the Clinician-Administered Dissociative States Scale (CADSS) was filled out after each condition to assess participants’ state dissociation and bodily self-consciousness.
Results showed that the MGT was effective in inducing state dissociation, as indexed by CADDS scores. Furthermore, under poor lighting, dissociative feelings (CADSS-Depersonalization) negatively correlated with interoceptive sensibility (MAIA Emotional-Awareness:r=-0.23, p=0.04; and Trusting:r=-0.23, p=0.04), and positively with trait dissociation (DIS-Q:r=0.37, p<0.01; DES:r=0.31, p<0.01) and Negative Affective States (PANAS-:r=0.51, p<0.01). There was no modulation in the HCT across MGT conditions.
These findings identify a relationship between non-pathological state dissociation and interoceptive sensibility, specifically interoceptive components related to affective and emotional aspects of visceral signals. Further studies on clinical populations are needed to shed light on the interoception-dissociation relationship
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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