Eye tracking devices are very successful in measuring affective parameters such as concentration in the computerized learning environments, and Bixler et al. were using eye tracking data detect mind wandering during computerized reading [19].
The new study could be a big help to researchers if it leads to a way to use fMRI to detect mind wandering without interrupting an experimental subject, Schooler says.
These authors posited that meditation practice induces enhancement of at least four different abilities: sustained attention, monitoring faculty (to detect mind wandering), the ability to disengage from a distracting object without further involvement (attentional switching), and the ability to redirect focus to the chosen object (selective attention).
Indeed, in these contradictory times – Tesco withdrawing pole-dancing kits for little girls even as the campaign against female genital mutilation finally gathers pace – and amid the maelstrom of influences that include faith, culture, individualism and the commodification of all experiences, is progress possible to detect, never mind map?
Instead of trying to circumscribe every single existent and then offer an account of each in turn, Cavendish assumes the existence of the material objects in our local surroundings and argues that because our minds detect them, our minds are material, as is everything else that we come to encounter.
Finally, Nagel (p. 107) accepts an argument of Sharon Street that "if the responses and faculties that generate our value judgments are… the result of natural selection, there is no reason to expect that they would lead us to be able to detect any mind-independent moral or evaluative truth".
Here, I thought, was where psycho-acoustics mattered: it mapped with a new precision the hazy but crucial area between what the sound-sensitive ear hears and what the pattern-detecting mind infers, which is exactly the place where music happens.
Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves 100 years ago, but directly detecting them required mind-boggling technological prowess and a history of hunting.
A study published this month in Psychological Science finds that our unconscious mind, or intuition, may be more accurate than our conscious mind at detecting dishonesty.
More than 80%% of the women in this study ranked peace of mind and detecting a cancer early as the "most important" factors to consider when making a decision about screening mammography.
The Eastern Orthodox churches detect a "common mind of the fathers" (consensus patrum), which allows for some variety of contribution and emphasis among the Fathers.
