Frontiers in Psychology
March 3, 2021
Kristian Moltke Martiny, Juan Toro, Simon Høffding
51 citations
A framework for phenomenological mixed methods is proposed, where phenomenology informs both qualitative (first-person, subjective) and quantitative (third-person, objective) data generation, analysis, and interpretation. The authors argue for mutual constraint and enlightenment between these approaches when studying consciousness. Drawing on mixed-methods research and existing examples, they present three cases studying complex social phenomena. A three-fold structure is developed: the phenomenological frame, phenomenologically informed data generation (tier one), and phenomenologically informed analysis and interpretation (tier two). The article maps possibilities, challenges, and common pitfalls for researchers combining phenomenology with qualitative and quantitative methods.
Frontiers in Communication
June 14, 2022
Sarah Bro Trasmundi, Juan Toro, Anne Mangen
10 citations
Reading is best understood as a cultural-cognitive performance involving living bodies actively engaging with materials, not as a silent, disembodied neural process. The authors propose cognitive pacemaking—an action-perception phenomenon—as the key mechanism for controlling attention during reading, driven by embodied modulations of lived temporality. Meaning emerges from multimodal engagement with the text, not just linguistic decoding. The framework combines close reading of a classic literary text with a qualitative study of university students reading different short texts. Empirical reading research should examine how embodied reading varies across contexts, genres, media, and personalities to better design reading settings.
Vertex (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
July 10, 2026
Marco Fierro, Abel Guerrero, Juan Toro
This narrative review describes the concept of the basic or minimal self and its alterations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders and the prodrome. The basic self is an implicit, pre-reflective sense of self-presence that grounds all experience from a first-person perspective. Anomalous self-experiences, where this first-person perspective is distorted, are considered core features of schizophrenia. The review highlights that publications on these topics are scarce in Spanish-language psychiatry.