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Time perception and the experience of agency in meditation and hypnosis
Mindfulness meditation and hypnosis are related in opposing ways to awareness of intentions. The cold control theory of hypnosis proposes that hypnotic responding involves the experience of involuntariness while performing an actually intentional action. Hypnosis therefore relies upon inaccurate metacognition about intentional actions and experiences. Mindfulness meditation centrally involves awareness of intentions and is associated with improved metacognitive access to intentions. Therefore, mindfulness meditators and highly hypnotizable people may lie at opposite ends of a spectrum with regard to metacognitive access to intentionârelated information. Here we review the theoretical background and evidence for differences in the metacognition of intentions in these groups, as revealed by chronometric measures of the awareness of voluntary action: the timing of an intention to move (Libet's âWâ judgments) and the compressed perception of time between an intentional action and its outcome (âintentional bindingâ). We review these measures and critically evaluate their proposed connection to the experience of volition and sense of agency
Extracting a More Realistic Pseudopotential for Aluminum, Lead, Niobium and Tantalum from Superconductor Electron Tunnelling Spectroscopy Data
Unconscious learning processes: mental integration of verbal and pictorial instructional materials
Transparency in the interbank market and the volume of bank intermediated loans
Eckwert B, Broll U. Transparency in the interbank market and the volume of bank intermediated loans. International Journal of Economic Theory. 2006;2(2):123-133.ABSTRACT This paper documents some empirical evidence of nonlinear spot-futures exchange rates relationships and develops an expected utility model of an exporting firm to examine the associated economic implications. The model shows that the firm should export more (less) and adopt an over (under) hedge in an unbiased currency futures market if the spot-futures exchange rates relationships is convex (concave) rather than linear. When fairly priced currency options on futures are available, the firm should use them in conjunction with the currency futures so as to achieve better hedging against its nonlinear exchange rate risk exposure. This provides a rationale for the hedging role of options when the underlying uncertainty is nonlinear in nature. Copyright 2001 by Oxford University Press
Relation of Predicted to Actual Hypnotic Responsiveness, with Special Reference to Posthypnotic Amnesia
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