Phantasmatic Reconstructions: Visualizing Phantom Limbs in the Works of Alexa Wright and Frank Bidart

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Catherine Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Frank Bidart ◽  
Phantom Limbs

scholarly journals Phantom Limbs, Extended Minds and the Decline of Religiosity: A Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspective

Open Theology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carles Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
The Other ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Phantom Limbs

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to advance a hypothesis that might explain the decline of religious belief and practice among the so-called WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) populations. The main point of this paper is to postulate a causal relationship between two variables that appear to be significantly correlated: on one hand, the decline of religious belief and practice that has been observed in those populations during the twentieth century, and especially since the second half of that century; on the other, the remarkable growth of their life span during that period. The factor that the author proposes as an explanation for that correlation is the causal link relating to the experience of the death of significant others and belief in the supernatural in such a way that the more that experience happens to be relevant in a population’s day-to-day life the more that population will be prone to entertain beliefs in the supernatural, and conversely, the less prominent that experience happens to be, the less inclined that population will be to uphold those beliefs.

scholarly journals Pain in Phantom Limbs

BMJ ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (4569) ◽  
pp. 267-267
Author(s):  
R. E. M. Bowden ◽  
J. R. Napier
Keyword(s):  
Phantom Limbs

scholarly journals Pain in Phantom Limbs

BMJ ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (4565) ◽  
pp. 51-52
Author(s):  
J. A. W. Bingham
Keyword(s):  
Phantom Limbs

scholarly journals ‘It’s All Done With Mirrors’: V.S. Ramachandran and the Material Culture of Phantom Limb Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
Phantom Limb ◽  
Mirror Therapy ◽  
Brain Sciences ◽  
Mirror Box ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
Dualistic Ontology ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Phantom Limbs

This article examines the material culture of neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran’s research into phantom limbs. In the 1990s Ramachandran used a ‘mirror box’ to ‘resurrect’ phantom limbs and thus to treat the pain that often accompanied them. The experimental success of his mirror therapy led Ramachandran to see mirrors as a useful model of brain function, a tendency that explains his attraction to work on ‘mirror neurons’. I argue that Ramachandran’s fascination with and repeated appeal to the mirror can be explained by the way it allowed him to confront a perennial problem in the mind and brain sciences, that of the relationship between a supposedly immaterial mind and a material brain. By producing what Ramachandran called a ‘virtual reality’, relating in varied and complex ways to the material world, the mirror reproduced a form of psycho-physical parallelism and dualistic ontology, while conforming to the materialist norms of neuroscience today.

scholarly journals Gaze, behavioral, and clinical data for phantom limbs after hand amputation from 15 amputees and 29 controls

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Saetta ◽  
Matteo Cognolato ◽  
Manfredo Atzori ◽  
Diego Faccio ◽  
Katia Giacomino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Data ◽  
Hand Amputation ◽  
Phantom Limbs

Phantom limbs: The body in mind

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Halligan
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Phantom Limbs

William James on Phantom Limbs

1955 ◽  
Vol 253 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon S. Olshansky
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Phantom Limbs
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