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PhD Psychology Stanford University
Masters Psychology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Benny Shanon is an emeriti professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds the Mandel Chair in cognitive psychology and education. Born in Tel Aviv, Shanon studied philosophy and linguistics at Tel Aviv University and received his doctorate in experimental psychology from Stanford University. He is best known for his research on the cognitive effects of ayahuasca and the Biblical entheogen hypothesis, the idea that the use of hallucinogenic drugs influenced religion.

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Benny Shanon's Published Works

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The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience (2003) (229)
Aristotelianism, Newtonianism and the Physics of the Layman (1976) (90)
Semantic representation of meaning: A critique. (1988) (73)
The Representational and the Presentational: An Essay on Cognition and the Study of Mind (2008) (51)
Lateralization effects in musical decision tasks (1980) (44)
Colour associates to semantic linear orders (1982) (42)
Lateralization effects in lexical decision tasks (1979) (42)
Lateralization effects in the perception of Hebrew and English words (1982) (40)
Ayahuasca visualizations: A structural typology. (2002) (40)
Faulty language selection in polyglots (1991) (39)
Music and Altered States: Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addictions (2008) (37)
Graphological patterns as a function of handedness and culture (1979) (37)
The epistemics of ayahuasca visions (2010) (37)
The Representational and the Presentational (1993) (35)
Are connectionist models cognitive (1992) (32)
Lateralization Effects in Response to Words and Non-Words (1979) (31)
Altered states and the study of consciousness: The case of Ayahuasca (2003) (31)
Biblical Entheogens: a Speculative Hypothesis (2008) (29)
On the similarity of features (1988) (29)
Writing positions in Americans and Israelis (1978) (24)
Answers to Where Questions. (1983) (20)
Interactive user modeling: An integrative explicit-implicit approach (1992) (19)
Interpretation of Ungrammatical Sentences. (1973) (18)
What is Context (1990) (18)
Metaphor: From Fixedness and Selection to Differentiation and Creation (1992) (17)
Identification and Classification of Words and Drawings in Two Languages (1982) (16)
Where Questions (1979) (16)
The embodiment of mind (2002) (16)
Commentary on Asher Koriat and Morris Goldsmith (1996). Memory metaphors and the real-life/laboratory controversy : Correspondence versus storehouse conceptions of memory. BBS 19:167-228. Authors' reply (1998) (14)
Moments of Insight, Healing, and Transformation: A Cognitive Phenomenological Analysis (2014) (12)
Classification of Musical Information Presented to the Right and Left Ear (1981) (11)
Yesterday, today and tomorrow ☆ (1979) (10)
Toward a Phenomenological Psychology of the Conscious (2010) (9)
Meno—a Cognitive Psychological View (1984) (9)
A Simple Comment Regarding the Turing Test (1989) (9)
The non-abstractness of mental representations (1987) (9)
Fractal patterns in language (1993) (9)
The Knot in the Handkerchief (1990) (8)
Classification and identification in an aphasic patient (1978) (8)
The polyglot mismatch and the monolingual tie. Observations regarding the meaning of numbers and the meaning of words (1984) (8)
The genetic code and human language (1978) (8)
Have you been to Paris (1979) (8)
Against the spotlight model of consciousness (2001) (7)
Remarks on the Modularity of Mind (1988) (7)
Mind-Body, Body-Mind: Two Distinct Problems (2008) (7)
Lateralization effects in reaction time to simple sentences. (1974) (6)
Representations: Senses and reasons (1991) (6)
The Biblical Merkava Vision and Ayahuasca Visions - A Comparative Commentary (2003) (6)
The channels of thought (1988) (5)
Dreaming and dream reports (1980) (5)
Even, Only and Almost Hardly (1978) (5)
Entheogens Reflections on 'psychoactive Sacramentals' (2002) (5)
Von Foerster's theorem on connectedness and organization: Semantic applications (1990) (5)
Non-representational frameworks for psychology: A typology (1990) (5)
Asymmetries in musical aesthetic judgments. (1984) (4)
Metaphorical pluralism – not on the substantive level! (1998) (4)
The representational view of mind in perspective: A response to Lucas. (1991) (4)
Cognitive psychology and modern physics: Some analogies (1991) (4)
Semantic processing during sleep (1979) (3)
Why are Dreams Cinematographic (1990) (3)
Biblical Entheogens : a Speculative Hypothesis 1 (2008) (2)
Remember the old masters (2002) (2)
Dream-reporting discourse (1984) (2)
How to tell the time in Hebrew (1985) (2)
Identification and classification of characters in two alphabets (1980) (2)
Music and ayahuasca (2011) (2)
Why are we (at least sometimes) conscious of our thoughts?: Or: Why do we think in words (sometimes)? (1993) (1)
The intrinsic temporality of human cognition (1998) (1)
What next? Ramifications for empirical psychology (1993) (1)
Memory as a tool: An analogy with the guiding stick (1991) (1)
On the Place of Representations in Cognition (2018) (1)
Chauvinism – A Misdirected Accusation: A Reply (1991) (1)
The two meanings of a homophone (1974) (1)
Cooperativeness and implicature — A reversed perspective (1987) (1)
Why Doesn't a Stone Have a Grammar of Physics? (1987) (1)
Book Review:The Structure of Human Memory. Charles N. Cofer (1977) (0)
A calculus of semantic values (1982) (0)
Fodor’s Impasse – a Converse Perspective and a Way Out (1998) (0)
Consciousness and AI : a reconsideration of Shanon. A reply (1991) (0)
Owen Flanagan, Consciousness Reconsidered (1995) (0)
Ways of the eyes: Observing Velázquez’s Las Meninas (1999) (0)
Novelty in Thinking (1990) (0)
The image-like and the language-like (1979) (0)
Why Am I Not a Behaviorist (1992) (0)
A SQUISH IN HEBREW MORPHOLOGY (1979) (0)

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The Antipodes of the Mind