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This paper is extracted from the research "Relationship between executive functions and social cognition with job performance in the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, seccional Bello" carried out in 2019. Social cognition as a fundamental part of higher cognitive processes and Person - Environment interaction is presented as a leading actor at work and in its manifestations, that is, the level of work performance is closely linked to social interaction skills. The article works with a population made up of university professors from the city of Medellín (Colombia) whose performance is variable but within the criteria accepted by that educational institution and who, in addition, do not present emotional alterations or mental illnesses categorized in the DSM -V. A series of tests are applied to this population that are detailed throughout the writing and a direct relationship between social cognition and performance is evidenced. This investigative work promises a great contribution to the improvement, not only of the performance of the teachers, but also of the quality of life of them and their families and the positioning and continuous improvement of the IES (Institutions of Higher Education). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes the integration of the Neuroscience field in psychoanalytic psychotherapy training. This broadens the conceptual framework of psychoanalysis, enriching and contrasting theories, as well as psychopathology, clinic and the type of interventions, in light of current knowledge of the brain/mind relationship. Examples of such integration in the clinic are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in examining the dynamics of the legitimation of science in light of the debate over the public undermining of its authority as a discourse of truth. This article explores the questions raised by this debate based on the analysis of a controversy recorded in the framework of ethnographic fieldwork in a research laboratory. This controversy pits scientific facts relevant to policy decisions about children’s cognitive development against each other. From the native’s point of view, the dispute revolves around two issues: (a) the misrepresented communication of knowledge about poverty and childhood development by outreach institutions, multilateral agencies, and various health and neuroscience professionals; and (b) the political use of such statements and knowledge to guide local level government actions. What is reconstructed throughout the paper, is the way in which the set of researchers mobilizes scientific evidence to dispute factual claims presented in the media as true. This is done by considering the dynamics of legitimacy that unfold around this controversy. Following the perspective of co-production, the analysis shows that the legitimacy of scientific knowledge goes beyond the proof of its truth and involves a plurality of contested perspectives in which both the weight of evidence and the different political imaginaries that the agents sustain come into play. This plurality exposes the inseparable relationship between epistemic, social, and normative aspects, while the ethnography highlights that science cannot be separated from society and politics. Science does not only serve to inform political decision-making; it is also produced in response to and in continuity with public discussion and acts in the co-production of a sense of the political and the social. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I discuss how life is lived in the present moment, and how this is connected to living a joyful life. I show that living in the present moment is related to embodied living and connecting to the body. The role of relational trauma in disconnecting from the body is then examined. The parts that early bad object relations play in the inability to live in the present moment are examined from the perspectives of object relations theory and neuroscience. The healing role of the good object - that is, the therapist - is discussed, and a technique based on insights from relational somatic psychotherapy is presented that may shorten the therapeutic process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we aim to define the legal-criminal concept of action, highlighting its internal, subjective dimension. This concept allows to lay bases to differentiate, on the one hand, action from nonaction, and, on the other, absence of action from absence of culpability. There is a dialectical relationship between absence of action and absence of culpability: the more one of them is expanded, the more the other is reduced. We defend the necessary dialogue between criminal law and neuroscience, and, at the same time, we note that scientific advances seem to increase the number of cases of absence of action, and, correspondingly, to reduce the occurrence of hypotheses of absence of culpability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research supporting this paper addresses the problem of educational communication efficacy using a dual methodology strategy. Over 1.200 questionnaires were given out to professionals in four institutions dedicated to persuasive communication; two traditional --the church and schools-- and two more recently created -- journalism and advertising. Probably they are the four groups with more socialising force in the last centuries; For this paper the educators' responses were specifically analysed to determine their conception of the communication process and the requirements for effective communication, and these were compared with those from the other groups, especially from advertising professionals. Lastly, all the responses were compared to contributions from neuroscience that have been made in recent decades about how the human mind functions, particularly with regards to decision-making, to determine which communication proposals provide a greater guarantee of efficacy. The results indicate the need for educators to break away from a strictly cognitive polarized communication that focuses on transmission. They are more related with guaranteeing the supply than creating a demand, and open up to the communicative potential of emotions, interaction and storytelling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies the last currents of foundation of the penal sanctions according to the recent neuroscientific contributions, which, contrary to what a priori would be expected, validate the mixed foundation that actually prevails in our legal system; that is, a moderate retributionism complemented with preventive approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neurosciences are a set of disciplines which aims to research the nervous system, focusing on brain functioning in relation with our behaviors. Neurosciences not only address the neurobiological issues of behavior but also rely on cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology and artificial intelligence. Neuroeducation, also called educational neuroscience, is an expanding discipline that aims to study brain development and its neurobiological foundations by optimizing teaching and learning process. Through analyzing some classic and current contributions of the neurosciences to the educational area, this paper proposes to review neurosciences' contribution to the educational field, establishing at the same time critical and future ways to get even closer relations between them. Then, we conclude that although the neuroeducation contributions are varied and we expect advances in this area derived from new technologies, we must be cautious and critical when analyzing or putting them into practice, since research must be generated with greater ecological validity, in educational environments with human beings with analysis at different levels, without ignoring the interdiscipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Cambridge Mindreading Test - CAM is one of the most used instruments in the assessment of social cognition and the Theory of Mind (ToM). However, despite being widely used in the evaluation of these skills, there are very few studies that inquires into the normative scores in the Spanish-speaking population. The aim of this paper is to present the normative data of the Cambridge Mindreading Test-CAM, in a population of young adults in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. 384 healthy subjects taken from the general population between 18 and 35 years old, were evaluated through the Cambridge Mindreading Test - CAM in its 50 ítems Spanish version adapted by the Escuela Argentina de Neurociencias. Average scores are obtained according to level of schooling, gender and socioeconomic status. The general average score of correct answers obtained for the CAM-Test, was of 29.40 with standard deviation of 5.69. No significant differences were observed according to gender and socioeconomic status. Specific scores were obtained according to socioeconomic status and gender. The normative data of the CAM-Test in its Spanish version for the population of young adults are provided, from the evaluation of subjects without pathologies, according to level of schooling, gender and socioeconomic status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cognitive neuroscience has provided a better understanding of the impact of media stimuli on cognitive and emotional processing. This article offers an exploratory bibliographic review on the contribution of neuroscience in the design of audiovisual content (N=57). This review was carried out in three stages: a) review of unstructured information; b) analysis, organization, and synthesis of content; c) conclusions. Likewise, interviews with experts in the television field, neuromarketing consultants, and neuroscientists (N=10), support the conclusions from the bibliographic review. Subsequently, the paper provides a set of scientifically endorsed guidelines for the efficient design of TV content for entertainment, education, and information, based on storytelling, edition, and the creation of new platforms. The bibliographic research reveals that emotion and attention are the key indicators of effectiveness for the design of television products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to show what "neurocognitive" linguistics (NCL) can contribute to biolinguistics. Thus, the following issues are considered in the four different sections of the paper: (1) insofar as NCL conceives of language as a set of interconnected sub-systems, NCL is in touch with the biological reality studied by neuroscientists; (2) NCL has developed a notational system able to represent linguistic information; (3) NCL is neurologically plausible; (4) NCL is compatible with tests carried out by current neuro-scientific research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we will see that depending on the context and diversity, discovering and teaching in science, should have an Intercultural look. The final objective of the so-called exact sciences, practically mostly, you could say it's the same. This objective would be to know and understand the secrets it holds the universe. But how do we discover? and how do we learn the knowledge that are already found?, we propose that this path should be intercultural. In this paper, first we will try to adopt and / or assume a definition for the words of Knowledge, Education, Science and Interculturality; because they are words that have much theoretical debate, and if we do not assume some definition for them, we will not reach to any goal. Then we will prove that interculturality must be present at the time of doing science and teaching it, for which purpose, we will find support primarily with studies of neuroscience, then, with the meaningful learning theory of Ausubel, with Piaget that gives importance to the prior knowledge of the learner, by Watson, Vygotsky, etc. Even we give an ancient example, in which this knowledge has already been used with good results; we talk about education in times of the Incas. This is a clear example that interculturality should be applied to teaching and conducting science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article joins the current debate over the many perspectives applicable to contemporary political thought, with the aim of incorporating a broader view that would have its origin in border areas such as Legal Sociology, Political Anthropology, Sociobiology, Evolutionary Biology or Neuroscience. Such prospects are requiring nowadays a cultural and political evolution of societies, in order to cope with the crisis of the existing model. After a brief summary of the paradigmatic shifts that are affecting the political thought, the article reflects on the need to expand the foundations of political analysis and political study sources. The author defends the need of maintaining the specific methodologies of each perspective, although integrated into a common epistemology. The paper concludes affirming that, contrary to any methodological reductionism, a complex epistemology is probably the more convenient way to respond to the current uncertainty of the political science. All this, provided that this approach is supported in a paradigmatic renewal which should be commited to social construction as the original vocation of the political thought that was bom in Greece. Finally, the article cites some of the most recent studies that advance in this direction. The article continues by taking a position within the controversy created last decade around the visions of Cansino-Sartori-Colomer authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neuroscience can create a new and different citizenship and electorate. This paper presents the emergence of neuro-marketing in the public and political sphere. Techniques with neurological basis that were initially used in medicine are currently being used in commercial marketing. For the same reasons, they could be equally applied in the social and political sphere, giving the possibility of knowing the impulses, emotions and reactions of individuals to some particular stimuli. This knowledge may be as beneficial as perverse, depending on their use. Therefore, a reflection on the ethical aspects and neuroeskepticism is crucial as well as a review of some issues on privacy and anonymity of participants, where ethical behavior of researchers is essential, beyond the perception of public opinion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The so-called 'Affective Turn' has brought articulations between certain contributions from social sciences and humanities that we call here «social theory(ies)» and some expressions from hard or natural science, that we call here «science(s)». The argument of this paper is that such re-encounters between «science» and «social theory» happen, in the frame of the contemporary studies, in three different kinds or gear logics that we have named 'Assemblage Spheres'. Here we argue that each of those spheres promotes different notions about the body, and each particular notion is what distinguishes them and what defines the possibilities of articulation for each sphere. The three logics of articulation that name our spheres are: The cybernetic fold, the Techno-Science and the Neuroscience. We will explain every sphere and we will illustrate each one with a research that displays its logic. Moreover we will make some warnings about possible critiques with regard to the re-encounters of «science» and «social theory», finally we will incorporate some premonitions about such relation within the studies of affect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to show that some current neuroscience research related to the study of decision making and mirror neurons confirm two of the intuitions that the ancient writers of Rhetoric had. First, the mixture of emotion and argumentation is essential in persuasion, because both emotions and rational arguments are needed to make decisions, as well as the arrangement of the parts of the speech, which places emotion at the beginning and end of the speech and argument in its central part, strictly conforms to the decision-making processes described by neuroscience. On the other hand, the discovery of mirror neurons confirms that classical rhetoricians were not wrong to give great importance to the operation of actio or pronuntiatio. Thus, when we witness the pronunciation of a speech, we automatically simulate gestures and expressions of the speaker in our brain and therefore, easily and unconsciously, understand how the speaker feels and what is meant to be conveyed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents new approaches to moral development, moral intuitionism, dual processing, moral brain, and universal moral; all these topics had been generated from research in recent years. For over a hundred years, scientists in general and psychology in particular have been hostile to the notion that there may be a moral faculty or an innate sense of justice Currently a significant body of scientific research from modern cognitive science, is converging in the affirmation of moral nativism. Today there is sufficient evidence to assume that the basic moral capacities are unlearned and universal. It is reasonable to think that a so intensely social specie like the human being, has created a way to foster the essential social and moral processes for survival. Furthermore moral processing follows a sequence that stands out for its automaticity, which is endorsed from what most of the research from cognitive psychology and from neuroscience, creating a new paradigm to approach to understanding moral development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the social theory of freedom proposed by Norbert Elias, as opposed to classic philosophical views. Firstly, it analyses the basic features of the metaphysical theories of freedom which Elias rejects. Then the key points on which Norbert Elias's social theory of freedom is based are developed. Finally, two Eliasian classic empirical examples are briefly discussed: the cases of Louis XIV and Mozart. The above is intended to show that Elias has a legitimate voice in the current scientific debate about freedom, especially within Neuroscience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to show the relationship between vulnerability, fear and hope from the perspective of neuroscience, etiology, psychoanalysis and critical theory. The human being when born your brain becomes more complex the animal species. His dependence on others is totally and without the aid of the caregiver or protect vulnerable to being blown threats from the outside world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks for to show the relevance of the perspective of the first person through a phenomenological approach. As opposed to the refusal of the different tendencies from the analytical philosophy of mind, cognitive sciences and neuroscience to consider the reality of the mental states like subjective phenomena, outline a revision of the question with the purpose of indicating to the relation between the subjective experience and a ontology of the first person. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Text comprehension is a psychological activity that has attracted the interest of cognitive science for a long time. Nevertheless, just recently, neuroscientific studies have emerged in order to unveil the neural machinery behind this activity. This paper reviews some of the classical and, particularly, current works in cognitive science and new advances in the neuroscience of text comprehension. Later on, a potential neurocognitive model for text comprehension based on the core concepts of the cognitive and neuroscientific approaches is presented. This model preserves the predictions made by cognitive models as regards comprehension and the architecture of the new neuropsychological models as regards neurocognitive development. Finally, questions for future research in both domains and some general conclusions are offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper suggests an argument against the possibility of psychology's reduction into neurophysiology based on the notion of "boundary layer" developed by Jody Azzouni. After introducing, very roughly, the logical space occupied by this notion, both within Azzouni's philosophical doctrine as well as the philosophy of science in general, I suggest an argument in which the notion of "boundary layer" would show, once again, the methodological independence of cognitive science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]