Frank Schumann

Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs

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Peter König

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Wolfgang Einhäuser

Chemnitz University of Technology

Klaus Bartl

LMU Klinikum

Erich Schneider

Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg

Dav Clark

Towson University

Christian Büchel

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Wache Susan

Osnabrück University

T Meilinger

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Haller Jeff

Transphorm (United States)

Annika Lübbert

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

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Osnabrück University

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Universität Hamburg

German Center for Lung Research

LMU Klinikum

Technical University of Munich

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology

University College London

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Video 3: Awareness Through Movement (ATM) Lesson - Demonstrating "Motoric Mind Wandering" with Increased Challenge

Dav Clark Frank Schumann Haller Jeff

Mind Wandering

10.6084/m9.figshare.1447842.v3

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Beyond kindness: a proposal for the flourishing of science and scientists alike

Royal Society Open Science (2023)

Frank Schumann Mareike Smolka Zoltán Dienes Annika Lübbert W. Lukas

We argue that many of the crises currently afflicting science can be associated with a present failure of science to sufficiently embody its own values. Here, we propose a response beyond mere crisis resolution based on the observation that an ethical framework of flourishing derived from the Buddhist tradition aligns surprisingly well with the values of science itself. This alignment, we argue, suggests a recasting of science from a competitively managed activity of knowledge production to a collaboratively organized moral practice that puts kindness and sharing at its core. We end by examining how Flourishing Science could be embodied in academic practice, from individual to organizational levels, and how that could help to arrive at a flourishing of scientists and science alike.

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Generosity

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Vetting

10.1098/rsos.230728

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Video 4: Effects of Feldenkrais ATM

Frank Schumann Dav Clark Haller Jeff Olmstead Ed

10.6084/m9.figshare.1453157.v2

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Salient features in gaze-aligned recordings of human visual input during free exploration of natural environments

Journal of Vision (2008)

Frank Schumann Wolfgang Einhäuser J. R. Vockeroth Klaus Bartl Erich Schneider

During free exploration, humans adjust their gaze by combining body, head, and eye movements. Laboratory experiments on the stimulus features driving gaze, however, typically focus on eye-in-head movements, use potentially biased stimuli, and restrict the field of view. Our novel wearable eye-tracking system (EyeSeeCam) overcomes these limitations. We recorded gaze- and head-centered videos of the visual input of observers freely exploring real-world environments (4 indoor, 8 outdoor), yielding approximately 10 h of data. Global power spectra reveal little difference between head- and gaze-centered recordings. Local stimulus features exhibit spatial biases in head-centered coordinates, which are environment-dependent, but consistent across observers. Eye-in-head movements center these biases in gaze-centered coordinates, leading to elevated "salient" features at center of gaze. This shows that central biases in image feature distributions in "natural" photographs are not a property of environments, but of stimuli already gaze-centered by the photographer. Further central biases in laboratory subjects' fixation distributions do not result from re-centering of the eyes but are an artifact of display restrictions. Hence, our findings demonstrate that the concept of feature "saliency" transfers from the laboratory to free exploration, but also highlight the importance of experiments with freely moving eyes, head, and body.

Stimulus (psychology)

10.1167/8.14.12

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Mindful movement and skilled attention

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2015)

Dav Clark Frank Schumann Stewart H. Mostofsky

Bodily movement has long been employed as a foundation for cultivating mental skills such as attention, self-control or mindfulness, with recent studies documenting the positive impacts of mindful movement training, such as yoga and tai chi. A parallel “mind-body connection” has also been observed in many developmental disorders. We elaborate a spectrum of mindfulness by considering ADHD, in which deficient motor control correlates with impaired (disinhibited) behavioral control contributing to defining features of excessive distractibility and impulsivity. These data provide evidence for an important axis of variation for wellbeing, in which skillful cognitive control covaries with a capacity for skillful movement. We review empirical and theoretical literature on attention, cognitive control, mind wandering, mindfulness and skill learning, endorsing a model of skilled attention in which motor plans, attention, and executive goals are seen as mutually co-defining aspects of skilled behavior that are linked by reciprocal inhibitory and excitatory connections. Thus, any movement training should engage “higher-order” inhibition and selection and develop a repertoire of rehearsed procedures that coordinate goals, attention and motor plans. However, we propose that mindful movement practice may improve the functional quality of rehearsed procedures, cultivating a transferrable skill of attention. We adopt Langer’s spectrum of mindful learning that spans from “mindlessness” to engagement with the details of the present task and contrast this with the mental attitudes cultivated in standard mindfulness meditation. We particularly follow Feldenkrais’ suggestion that mindful learning of skills for organizing the body in movement might transfer to other forms of mental activity. The results of mindful movement training should be observed in multiple complementary measures, and may have tremendous potential benefit for individuals with ADHD and other populations.

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Motor Learning

10.3389/fnhum.2015.00297

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Properties and mechanisms of sensory enhancement

SU König Brunsch M Ebert Steffen Fleck Ricardo Ramos Gameiro

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Beyond kindness: a proposal for the flourishing of science and scientists

Zoltán Dienes Enrico Fucci Annika Lübbert W. Lukas Mary Gehring Rees

We argue that many of the crises currently afflicting science can be associated with a present failure of science to sufficiently embody its own values. Here, we propose a response beyond mere crisis resolution based on the observation that an ethical framework of flourishing derived from the Buddhist tradition aligns surprisingly well with the values of science itself. This alignment, we argue, suggests a recasting of science from a competitively managed activity of knowledge production to a collaboratively organized moral practice that puts kindness and sharing at its core. We end by examining how a flourishing framework could be embodied in academic practice, from individual to organizational levels, and how that could help to arrive at a flourishing of scientists and science alike.

Flourishing

Kindness

Generosity

10.31231/osf.io/4zrmd

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MINI: Mechanisms In Neuropsychological Issues

Friedrich K. Albert Jaqueline Griego Stanley James Christiane Kabisch Oleksandr Kolomiyets

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Video 2: Introducing the Task - Awareness Through Movement (ATM) demonstrating "motoric mind wandering"