Cultured resonance

Cultured resonance is a descriptor for the individual’s discriminant notice and interpretation of sensory information based on the meanings he or she had assigned to previous sensory exposures along with his or her current interests and goals. Cultured resonance is both a process and an outcome, i.e., it depicts and is the result of conscious and unconscious processes involving attention and meaning-making. It is distinct from sensory resonance in that where some sensory information is ignored at the conscious level, other sensory information compels notice and excites a cognitive-emotional response based on its vague or specific familiarity or its immediate valuation as having relevance.
This type of resonance is said to be ‘cultured’ in that it is not ultimately determined by the inherent qualities of material objects or symbolic text, but rather by the individual evaluating these, and in particular, how and whether available information resonates within the individual’s global cognitive framework. Cultured resonance involves neurobiological processes at the unconscious level and metacognitive processes at the conscious level. It both initiates and mediates the meaning-making process and is a precursor to the individual’s acquisition and production of knowledge.<ref NameKusan-Dialectics/> The concept emerged from the study as a concise descriptor and theoretical explanation for why and how individuals pay attention to only some of the information available to them at any given moment. The study’s findings suggest that valuations of relevance are affected by previous exposures and interpretations, and that the course of the individual’s development of MHL tends to reflect a process of building literacies from previous understandings and their attendant biases. The concept highlights the importance of individuals’ foundational MHL to their ongoing refinements of MHL and by extension, mental health decision-making and management practices.<ref NameKusan-Dialectics/> Globally, that is to say beyond its role specifically related to the ontogeny of MHL, cultured resonance initiates the process of autologous knowledge-translation (AKT)—the individual’s production and translation of knowledge for adaptation, actualization, and communication purposes.<ref Name=Kusan-Dialectics/>
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