Sentence examples for introspective thought from inspiring English sources

Some researchers have proposed that the default mode network is crucial for introspective thought and even for generating the sense of consciousness, and Nutt thinks the finding that psilocybin inhibits this network could help explain the surreal experiences the drug causes.

One possible difficulty with such accounts is that while it seems plausible to suppose that an introspective thought or judgment might contain another thought or judgment as a part, it's less clear how a self-attributive judgment or belief might contain a piece of conscious experience as a part.

That's an introspective thought process.

After seven years of introspective thought and analysis, Shari came to the conclusion that God does care if the colour of your blouse doesn't complement your skin tone.

Two major proposals are that resting state activity supports introspective thought or supports responses to future events [7].

The romantic, introspective thoughts I was conjuring about the vastness of the ocean and space were kind of overshadowed toward the end of the seven-hour sail when the rocking turned from soothing and romantic to barfy-ill-making.

The DMN is believed to be relevant to attention, self-monitoring and introspective thoughts and represent a "sentinel" role of the resting state that awakes brain broadly to evaluate information from external and internal environment [9].

In addition to an increase in abstract thinking capacities, adolescents develop an introspective thinking style which allows them to contemplate their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (Blakemore and Choudhury 2006; Kingery et al. 2006; Schrodt and Fitzgerald 1987).

He was an introspective, thinking man.

In a much-criticized piece of reasoning, Descartes (1641/1984) contrasts the certainty afforded by introspection with the dubitability of knowledge of the physical, to show that introspective objects (thoughts) are ontologically distinct from physical things.

In his text, he wrote: "In both works, the figures are dreamily introspective, absorbed in thought.