#mental activity

[rawrrkiyomi]

do you ever feel like you have so much potential in you, such an alive inside world but don’t have where, how or who to show it...

[neurosciencenews]

Mental and Physical Activity in Middle Age Tied to Lower Dementia Risk

Keeping physically and mentally active in middle age may be tied to a lower risk of developing dementia decades later. Mental activities included reading, playing instruments, singing in a choir, visiting concerts, gardening, doing needlework or attending religious services.

The study found that women with a high level of mental activities were 46 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and 34 percent less likely to develop dementia overall than the women with the low level of mental activities. The women who were physically active were 52 percent less likely to develop dementia with cerebrovascular disease and 56 percent less likely to develop mixed dementia than the women who were inactive.

[loveandknowledge]

On John Stuart Mill

The stupidity of regulating thought and belief is witnessed in the persecution of Socrates and Jesus, Mill says, who now are held up as two of history’s greatest figures. If every age sees that people who were considered “bad” are now “good”, they must perceive that current opinion is usually flawed. Whenever there has existed in history a society or nation that has held some principles beyond dispute, or prevented discussion of some big question, Mill observes, “we cannot hope to find that generally high scale of mental activity which has made some periods of history so remarkable.” A nation becomes great not by a mere imposition of order and power, but by letting go, knowing that there is much to gain by open discussion. Indeed, this is what frees the best minds to come up with the greatest advances.

- ‘50 Philosophy Classics’ by Tom Butler-Bowdon

[drjacquescoulardeau]

PARTNERSHIP AIPL - ISAPL 

L’Association Internationale de Psychomécanique du Langage (AIPL) – association de loi 1901 de droit français, dont le siège social est situé à Aix-en-Provence représentée par Sophie Saffi, en sa qualité de Présidente, d’une part,

 et l’Association Internationale de Psycho-Linguistique Appliquée (ISAPL), association de droit brésilien dont le siège           social est situé à l´Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, UNISC, Brasil, représentée par Marcus Maia, en sa qualité de Président, d’autre part,

 ont signé le 23 octobre 2021 une Convention de Partenariat qui leur permet d’échanger des informations sur les activités des deux associations et de les diffuser dans leurs réseaux propres. Cela implique aussi une coordination des activités comme colloques, journées d’études ou congrès pour permettre aux adhérents de l’une ou l’autre association de participer aux activités de l’autre.

 L’objectif majeur est de permettre l’enrichissement réciproque des recherches des deux associations qui sont proches car toutes les deux travaillent dans le domaine cognitif partant du langage comme étant l’activité mentale majeure de l’homme. Ce langage a une dimension psychologique fondamentale et est l’expression discursive ou communicationnelle des opérations mentales qui le sous-tendent et le génèrent.

 Les deux associations espèrent donc que cette coordination permettra d’élargir les recherches dans ce domaine au niveau mondial. Les deux associations sont ouvertes à toutes les personnes intéressées dans leur champ de recherche.

 ENGLISH VERSION

 The International Association of Psychomechanics of Language (AIPL), an association under the French 1901 law (on the freedom of association), whose head office is located in Aix-en-Provence represented by Sophie Saffi, in her capacity as President, on the one hand

 and the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL), an association under Brazilian law, whose head office is located at the Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, UNISC, Brasil, represented by Marcus Maia, in his capacity as President, on the other hand

 signed on October 23, 2021, a Partnership Agreement that allows them to exchange information about the activities of both associations and to disseminate them in their own networks. This also implies the coordination of activities such as symposiums, workshops and seminars, or congresses to allow the members of one or the other association to participate in the activities of the other.

 The major objective is to allow the reciprocal enrichment of the research of the two associations which are close because both work in the cognitive domain starting from language as being the major mental activity of man. This language has a fundamental psychological dimension and is the discursive or communicative expression of the mental operations that underlie and generate it.

 The two associations hope that this coordination will allow the expansion of research in this field at the global level. Both are open to people interested in their general field of research.

 VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS DO BRASIL

 A Associação Internacional de Psicomecânica da Linguagem (AIPL), uma associação de acordo com a lei francesa de 1901 (sobre a liberdade de associação), cuja sede está localizada em Aix-en-Provence, representada por Sophie Saffi, em sua qualidade de presidente, por um lado

 e a Sociedade Internacional de Psicolinguística Aplicada (ISAPL), uma associação de direito brasileiro, cuja sede está localizada na Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, UNISC, Brasil, representada por Marcus Maia, em sua qualidade de presidente, por outro lado

 assinaram em 23 de outubro de 2021 um Acordo de Parceria que lhes permite trocar informações sobre as atividades de ambas as associações e disseminá-las em suas próprias redes. Isto também implica em uma coordenação de atividades como simpósios, workshops e seminários, ou congressos para permitir aos membros de uma ou outra associação participar das atividades da outra.

 O objetivo principal é permitir o enriquecimento recíproco da pesquisa das duas associações que estão próximas porque ambas trabalham no domínio cognitivo a partir da linguagem como sendo a principal atividade mental do homem. Esta linguagem tem uma dimensão psicológica fundamental e é a expressão discursiva ou comunicativa das operações mentais que a fundamentam e a geram.

 As duas associações esperam que esta coordenação permita a expansão das pesquisas neste campo em nível global. Ambas estão abertas às pessoas interessadas em seu campo geral de pesquisa.

 TOUS CONTACTS / ALL CONTACT / TODOS CONTATOS

AIPL, https://psychomecanique.org/

ISAPL, https://isapl2020.org/

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU, [email protected],

https://www.researchgate.net/project/INTERNATIONAL-SOCIETY-FOR-APPLIED-PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

[misentropy]

long-term potentiation

Many different events can increase a synapse’s strength when we learn new skills. The process that we understand best is called long-term potentiation, in which repeatedly stimulating two neurons at the same time fortifies the link between them. After a strong connection is established between these neurons, stimulating the first neuron will more likely excite the second.

In addition to making existing synapses more robust, learning causes the brain to grow larger. Optical imaging allows researchers to visualize this growth in animals. For instance, when a rat learns a difficult skill, such as reaching through a hole for a pellet of food, within minutes new protrusions, called dendritic spines, grow on the synapses in its motor cortex, the region that allows animals to plan and execute movements.

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[j-august]

If there be courage and mental activity, and no conscience, we have a very dangerous devil. A spoiled child, in which self is supreme, who has no softness of heart, and some cleverness and energy, easily degenerates into that sort of Satan.

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Willing to Die

[misentropy]

attention schema

One line of reductionist thinking insists that the hard problem is not really so hard—or that it is, perhaps, simply unnecessary. In his new book, “Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience,” the neuroscientist and psychologist Michael Graziano writes that consciousness is simply a mental illusion, a simplified interface that humans evolved as a survival strategy in order to model the processes of the brain. He calls this the “attention schema.” According to Graziano’s theory, the attention schema is an attribute of the brain that allows us to monitor mental activity—tracking where our focus is directed and helping us predict where it might be drawn in the future—much the way that other mental models oversee, for instance, the position of our arms and legs in space. Because the attention schema streamlines the complex noise of calculations and electrochemical signals of our brains into a caricature of mental activity, we falsely believe that our minds are amorphous and nonphysical. The body schema can delude a woman who has lost an arm into thinking that it’s still there, and Graziano argues that the “mind” is like a phantom limb: “One is the ghost in the body and the other is the ghost in the head.”

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[ivanconrad]

The Rewards of Reading

The Rewards of Reading

Learning

What have you been reading lately?

When was the last time you read a book?

Are you a wide reader?

Everyone can tell

In a gathering, you can tell who the wide readers are. Wide readers think and speak well. They win the admiration, respect, and good opinion of others.

Reading expands the mind. In fact, many people consider it as one of the satisfying pleasures of humans. For it involves…

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