Overarching States of Mind

Herz, Noa; Baror, Shira; Bar, Moshe

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.12.015

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“…Rather, autistic individuals might show reduced flexibility in adjusting inhibitory local networks when the task requires it. More generally, Herz et al (2020) recently suggested that healthy thinking and perception is characterised specifically by the degree of flexibility to continuously change across a continuum spanning from 'narrow' states of mind based on bottom-up processing, to 'broad' states based on top-down processing. Our results also suggest that the cognitive flexibility of tuning neural circuitry responsible for sensory cortical interactions may play a key role in shaping how we experience the world around us.…”

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Somatosensory evoked potentials that index lateral inhibition are modulated according to the mode of perceptual processing: comparing or combining multi-digit tactile motion

Arslanova

Wang

Gomi

et al. 2020

Cognitive Neuroscience

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Somatosensory evoked potentials that index lateral inhibition are modulated according to the mode of perceptual processing: comparing or combining multi-digit tactile motion

Arslanova

Wang

Gomi

et al. 2020

Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…The first article to combine functional MRI and magnetoencephalography to examine top-down influences in object recognition. Herz, N., Baror, S., & Bar, M. (2020). (See References).…”

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“…Together, these observations gave rise to the concept of an overarching SoM (Herz et al, 2020). My colleagues and I proposed that these different facets of thought are tied together and change together along a broad-narrow continuum.…”

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“…Examples include how much people rely on incoming sensory information compared with memory and expectations, or the extent to which people focus attention on externally determined cues compared with internal goals and guidance. Furthermore, how much people operate on the basis of top-down guidance versus bottom-up information varies dynamically according to circumstances such as context and overall state (Herz et al, 2020).…”

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“…What my colleagues and I have noticed over the years is that people's dispositions, biases, and tendencies in Bar central domains such as perception, attention, thought, openness to experience, and mood not only vary along a continuum of how much they are driven internally or externally, but also vary along this continuum in tandem. Changes along this continuum happen in a synchronized manner, which is dictated by the individual's overarching state of mind (SoM; Herz et al, 2020). In the following sections, I examine the involvement of top-down processes in multiple domains, elaborate on the concept of SoM, and propose novel extensions of this framework for the future.…”

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The involvement of top-down processes in perception and cognition is widely acknowledged by now. In fields of research from predictions to inhibition, and from attentional guidance to affect, a great deal has already been charted. Integrating this newer understanding with accumulated findings from the past has made it clear that human experience is determined by a combination of both bottom-up and top-down processes. It has been proposed that the ongoing balance between their relative contribution affects a person’s entire state of mind, an overarching framework that encompasses the breadth of mental activity. According to this proposal, state of mind, in which multiple facets of mind are clumped together functionally and dynamically, orients us to the optimal state for the given circumstances. These ideas are examined here by connecting a broad array of domains in which the balance between top-down and bottom-up processes is apparent. These domains range from object recognition to contextual associations, from pattern of thought to tolerance for uncertainty, and from the default-mode network to mood. From this synthesis emerge numerous hypotheses, implications, and directions for future research in cognitive psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience.

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The maintenance and escalation of intergroup conflicts have been explained by negative emotions and attitudes toward outgroup members. Considering that creative cognition entails the ability to generate diverse and new ideas, we sought to investigate whether creativity may contribute to overcoming negative emotions and attitudes associated with intergroup conflicts. Therefore, we examined whether individual differences in creativity predict conflict‐related emotions and attitudes in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. To that end, we recruited Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs who identify themselves as Palestinian and administered the Torrance task of divergent thinking to assess the levels of originality and flexibility of participants. We also measured outgroup‐targeted emotions and attitudes toward the conflict. Results indicate that participants who demonstrate higher levels of original thinking, on average, reported higher levels of positive emotions toward outgroup members and were more supportive of conciliatory attitudes toward the conflict. Moreover, these associations were more evident among Israelis than among Palestinians. Finally, a mediation analysis demonstrated that originality predicts conciliatory attitudes through an increase in positive emotions and a decrease in negative emotions toward outgroup members. This relationship was not moderated by nationality. These findings suggest that interventions based on creativity training may be beneficial to encourage reconciliation.

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Overarching States of Mind

Cited by 49 publications

References 112 publications

Somatosensory evoked potentials that index lateral inhibition are modulated according to the mode of perceptual processing: comparing or combining multi-digit tactile motion

Somatosensory evoked potentials that index lateral inhibition are modulated according to the mode of perceptual processing: comparing or combining multi-digit tactile motion

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