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DocumentAwareness of Action and the Attribution of Agency are Key Issues in the Neuroscientific Study of Consciousness2008

Reference code: PT/FB
Entity holding: BIAL Foundation
Location: S. Mamede do Coronado
Title:
BIAL Foundation Archive
Start date: 1994
History:
The BIAL Foundation was created in 1994 by Laboratórios BIAL in conjunction with the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities. BIAL’s Foundation mission is to foster the scientific study of Man from both the physical and spiritual perspectives.
Along the years the BIAL Foundation has developed an important relationship with the scientific community, first in Portugal and after worldwide. Today it is an institution of reference which aims to stimulate new researches that may help people, promote more health and contribute to new milestones to gain access to knowledge.
Among its activities the BIAL Foundation manages the BIAL Award, created in 1984, one of the most important awards in the Health field in Europe. The BIAL Award rewards both the basic and the clinical research distinguishing works of major impact in medical research.
The BIAL Foundation also assigns Scientific Research Scholarships for the study of neurophysiological and mental health in people, arousing the interest of researchers in the areas of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.
To date the BIAL Foundation has supported 461 projects, more than 1000 researchers, with research groups in twenty-seven countries, resulting, until April 2013, in about 600 full papers, out of which 172 published in indexed international journals with an average impact factor of 3.6 and a substantial number of citations (1665).
Since 1996 the BIAL Foundation organizes the Symposia entitled "Behind and Beyond the Brain", a Forum that gathers well renowned neurosciences speakers and the BIAL Foundation Fellows which are spread around the world.
Classified as an institution of public utility, the BIAL Foundation includes among its patrons the Portuguese President, the Portuguese Universities Rectors' Council and the Portuguese Medical Association.
URL: http://www.bial.com/pt/
Accessibility: By permission

Reference code: PT/FB/BL
Entity holding: BIAL Foundation
Title: BIAL Grants
Start date: 1994
History:
In 1994 the BIAL Foundation launched a programme of science research grants with the aim of encouraging the research into Man’s physical and mental processes, namely in fields still largely unexplored but which warrant further scientific analysis, as Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.
Since its launch, applications to the BIAL grants have been increasing. Up to now 461 projects have been supported, involving more than 1000 researchers from 27 countries.
The approved applications have benefited from grants in amounts comprised between €5,000 and €50, 000. The amount to be granted is fixed by the Scientific board according to the needs of each project.
The supported projects have originated, until April 2013, in about 600 full papers, 172 out of which were published in indexed international journals with an average impact factor of 3.6 and a substantial number of citations (1665).
Among the BIAL Foundation fellows is worth highlighting the presence of scientists from prestigious universities from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Russia, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, and many others.
The BIAL grants are promoted biannually.

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2006
Location: Arquivo PCA - Pastas 1 a 22 /2006
Title:
2006 Grants
Start date: 2007-01 - 2013-11
Dimension/support:
22 caixas de arquivo

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2006-012
Location: Arquivo PCA - Pasta 6/2006
Title:
012 - The impact of mindfulness meditation on visuomotor performance and awareness of action: an EEG study of short- and long-term meditators
Duration: 2007-05 - 2009-11
Researcher(s):
Stefan Schmidt, Jose Raul Naranjo
Institution(s): Institute of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Freiburg (Germany)
Contents: Contents:
Bursary agreement
Application form
Correspondence
Financial report and expenditure documents
Progress report
Final report
Language: eng
Author:
Schmidt, S.
Secondary author(s):
Naranjo, J. R.
Number of reproductions:
1
Keywords:
Psychophysiology / Body structure and function / Movement / Altered states of consciousness / Meditation / Self / Body awareness

Reference code: PT/FB/BL-2006-012.04
Location: Arquivo PCA - Pasta 6/2006
Title:
Awareness of Action and the Attribution of Agency are Key Issues in the Neuroscientific Study of Consciousness
Publication year: 2008
URL:
http://www.ecrsh.eu/rsh08/pdf/RSH08%20Free%20Communication.pdf
Abstract/Results: ABSTRACT:
Attribution of agency involves the ability to distinguish our own actions and their sensory consequences which are self-generated from those generated by external agents. Although we are normally aware of our motor intentions and goals, we do not have conscious access to all our motor commands and every fi ne motor adjustment. Certain components of these internal representations may become available to awareness when the discrepancy between the predicted and the actual sensory consequences of an action is large. The exact threshold above which this perceptual-motor conflict becomes available to awareness is currently a focus of intensive research. Healthy subjects may be poorly aware of their motor performance. In patients with prefrontal lesions, deafferentation and schizophrenia, perceptual-motor awareness is severely impaired. We hypothesize that if there are pathologies with a detrimental effect on the sense of self-agency, then meditation, known to improve self-awareness, might infl uence the cognitive processes related to the implicit and conscious monitoring of actions. In fact, brain areas linked to meditation-related alterations in self-awareness are also known to be associated to the experience of self-agency. This connection offers a pathway for behavioral measurements of spirituality. Mindfulness, the continuous non-judgmental awareness of moment to moment experience, is often used as a spiritually-based clinical intervention for a large set of conditions. But the degree of mindfulness which is important to measure in clinical trials is so far only accessible indirectly via questionnaires. Few studies have shown a positive correlation between visuomotorn performance and bodily self-awareness with meditation practice. Nevertheless, a direct assessment of meditationrelated cortical processes during a sensorimotor integration task remained largely unexplored. We investigate the impact of mindfulness meditation on EEG activity, visuomotor performance and perceptual-motor awareness in meditators during a confl icting sensorimotor task, where the congruency between actions and their sensory consequences is altered. The experimental device consists of a digitizing tablet connected to a video projector via a computer and a “projection tablet”. When tracing a line on the digitizing tablet, the subjects see in the “projection tablet” a projected line coming from the video projector. In order to provide a false feedback, a simple algorithm for introducing an angular bias is used. The task is to draw a straight line between the starting point and the target. Subjects are instructed to move mindfully with moment to moment awareness their hand at a moderate speed. After each trial participants are asked to report their perception of the bias-induced movement distortion. This task is presented to novices in meditation before and after an intensive 8 weeks mindfulness programme (MBSR: mindfulness based stress reduction)
data of this sample is compared to a group of long-term meditators and a group of healthy non-meditators. In this oral presentation the analysis of visuomotor performance and sense of self-agency in short-term meditators before and after the MBSR course will be reported.
Accessibility: Document does not exist in file
Language:
eng
Author:
Naranjo, J. R.
Secondary author(s):
Schmidt, S.
Document type:
Abstract book
Number of reproductions:
1
Reference:
Naranjo, J.R., & Schmidt, S. (2008). Awareness of Action and the Attribution of Agency are Key Issues in the Neuroscientific Study of Consciousness. Paper presented at the European Conference on Religion, Spirituality and Health, 30.
Indexed document: No
Keywords: Meditation / Self-agency / Self-awareness / Consciousness