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3035 Keynote
Chair: Bruce Overmier, USA
Consciousness: When, where and why? Colin Blakemore, University Laboratory of Physiology,
Oxford University, UK
Awareness - its mechanism and function - has become a central issue in neuroscience, as it has
always been in psychology. The powerful techniques of single-neuron recording, functional
imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, electro- and magneto-encephalography are helping to
define the neural correlate of consciousness. Studies of binocular rivalry and the perception of
ambiguous images have told us that different aspects of awareness are associated with activity in
particular visual cortical areas. Further evidence comes from the changes in awareness after
damage of visual areas, the ectopic perceptions of individuals with synaesthesia, and the
recruitment of visual cortical areas, without corresponding visual experience, during tactile
stimulation in the blind. There remain, however, deep metaphysical and teleological issues. Just
what it awareness, and what is its functional role?
3036 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
The ontological nexus of psychology
Convener and Chair: A. Meneghetti, Italy
3036.1 The ontological nexus of psychology, A. Meneghetti, International Ontopsychology
Association, Roma, Italy
The novelty of the Ontopsychological school consists in the fact that it has found the criterion that
operates the ontological nexus between different sciences; that is, it has shed light on the ontic.
Any cause has a specific behavioural identity. This criterion has been experimentally verified in all
the realm of applied psychology. In the three decades since its development, the method in
question has never failed, in any field that directly concerns man in his individual and social
existence from cancer to schizophrenia, from ethics to economic decisions. Ontopsychology
possesses the experimental nexus, that is, the technique that leads to interaction with the original
of the world of life.
3036.2 Ontopsychology: The psychology of being in man – the development of the
ontopsychological approach, N. Grishina, Saint Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia
The central object of Ontopsychology is the analysis of being, in the anthropological form it takes
in man. The existential problem of the authenticity or inauthenticity of human life is at the centre
of attention. As an existential psychological current, Ontopsychology stresses both the role of
choices in man’s self-construction and the understanding of man’s historical-cultural context.
Ontopsychology turns to a holistic description and to the analysis of the ontic component of man’s
existence in his vital space; thus, Ontopsychology can go beyond the limitations of
phenomenological descriptions and the confinement of other psychological currents to the space
of man’s interior world and his emotive subjective experience.
3036.3 The application of ontopsychology to the figure of the leader as a source of solutions for
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