Given there is concordant auditory, visual and somatosensory input for example when hearing and feeling oneself articulate the syllable "ba", or when feeling, seeing and hearing the hammer in one's hand strike there is correlated activity in different motor, sensory and multimodal brain areas (Braitenberg and Pulvermüller 1992; Pulvermüller 1999).
College, he tells us, "is a hedge against utilitarian values" that "slakes the human craving for contacts with works of art that somehow register one's longings and yet exceed what one has been able to articulate by and for oneself".
Indeed, a mainstream strategy in cognitive behavioral therapy involves purposefully articulating thoughts to oneself in order to diminish pernicious habits of mind.
This is why there is nothing absurd in speaking about the narrative unity of a life, under the sign of narratives that teach us how to articulate retrospection and prospection in a narrative way" (Oneself as Another, 163, translation modified).
Many philosophers have tried to articulate what it means to be not only temporal but aware of oneself as such.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama used framing perfectly and articulated the progressive moral system (empathy, individual and social responsibility, making oneself and the world better) as well as it has ever been done.
Thomas articulates nearing the end of that journey--the panic, the animal instinct to preserve oneself.
It is not clear, for example, whether moral expertise consists of knowledge of right and wrong, the ability to articulate implications of moral premises, or the display of an outstanding character oneself.
Articulated expectations introduce the possibility of being disappointed, and might invoke a more archaic fear of "jinxing needs oneself by boasting or being too positive".
Achieving ego-integrity involves fully accepting oneself and is important in quality of later life, but the concept of ego-integrity in old adults has not yet been well articulated in nursing practice.
