Ssensing” Voices. A Theoretical Comparison
Erwin Straus’ aesthesiological analysis of the voice-hearing modality can serve as a bridge between top-down models, which emphasize the emotional and inter-subjective significance of auditory hallucinations, and bottom-up models, which highlight the dysfunctional neurobiological mechanisms that ca...
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| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Phenomenology and Mind |
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| Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7111 |
| Summary: | Erwin Straus’ aesthesiological analysis of the voice-hearing modality can serve as a bridge between top-down models, which emphasize the emotional and inter-subjective significance of auditory hallucinations, and bottom-up models, which highlight the dysfunctional neurobiological mechanisms that cause them. The comparison with Crow’s hypothesis allows to include the aesthesiological approach in an anthropo-biological context in which schizophrenia appears to be the price that species Sapiens had to pay to acquire self-consciousness.
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| ISSN: | 2280-7853 2239-4028 |