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The sense of agency in near and far space Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Marika Mariano, Giulia Stanco, Damiano Ignazio Graps, Ileana Rossetti, Nadia Bolognini, Eraldo Paulesu, Laura Zapparoli
The sense of agency is the ability to recognize that we are the actors of our actions and their consequences.
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More than fulfilled expectations: An electrophysiological investigation of varying cause-effect relationships and schizotypal personality traits as related to the sense of agency Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Nena Luzi, Maria Chiara Piani, Daniela Hubl, Thomas Koenig
The sense of agency (SoA) is central to human experience. The comparator model, contrasting sensory prediction and action feedback, is influential but limited in explaining SoA. We investigated mechanisms beyond the comparator model, focusing on the processing of unpredictable stimuli, perimotor components of SoA, and their relation to schizotypy.
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The role of self-related information in the sense of agency Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Guanhua Huang, Xun Jia, Yuanmeng Zhang, Ke Zhao, Xiaolan Fu
Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the subjective experience of controlling one’s actions and their subsequent consequences. The present study endeavors to investigate the impact of how different degrees of self-related stimuli as action outcomes on the sense of agency by observing the temporal binding effect. Results showed that self-related sound significantly altered temporal binding, notably influencing
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Dissociation between temporal attention and Consciousness: Unconscious temporal cue induces temporal expectation effect Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Xiaowei Ding, Huichao Ji, Wenhao Yu, Luzi Xu, Youting Lin, Yanliang Sun
The debate over the independence of attention and consciousness is ongoing. Prior studies have established that invisible spatial cues can direct attention. However, our exploration extends beyond spatial dimensions to temporal information as a potent guide for attention. A intriguing question arises: Can unconscious temporal cues trigger attentional orienting? To investigate, we employed a modified
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Towards a structural turn in consciousness science Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Johannes Kleiner
Recent activities in virtually all fields engaged in consciousness studies indicate early signs of a structural turn, where verbal descriptions or simple formalisations of conscious experiences are replaced by structural tools, most notably mathematical spaces. My goal here is to offer three comments that, in my opinion, are essential to avoid misunderstandings in these developments early on. These
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Mapping the pre-reflective experience of “self” to the brain - An ERP study Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Piani Maria Chiara, Gerber Bettina Salome, Koenig Thomas, Morishima Yosuke, Nordgaard Julie, Jandl Martin
The neural underpinnings of selfhood encompass pre-reflective and reflective self-experience. The former refers to a basic, immediate experience of being a self, while the latter involves cognition and introspection. Although neural correlates of reflective self-experience have been studied, the pre-reflective remains underinvestigated.
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Assessing the commensurability of theories of consciousness: On the usefulness of common denominators in differentiating, integrating and testing hypotheses Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 K. Evers, M. Farisco, C.M.A. Pennartz
How deep is the current diversity in the panoply of theories to define consciousness, and to what extent do these theories share common denominators? Here we first examine to what extent different theories are commensurable (or comparable) along particular dimensions. We posit logical (and, when applicable, empirical) commensurability as a necessary condition for identifying common denominators among
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How (not) to demonstrate unconscious priming: Overcoming issues with post-hoc data selection, low power, and frequentist statistics Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Timo Stein, Simon van Gaal, Johannes J. Fahrenfort
One widely used scientific approach to studying consciousness involves contrasting conscious operations with unconscious ones. However, challenges in establishing the absence of conscious awareness have led to debates about the extent and existence of unconscious processes. We collected experimental data on unconscious semantic priming, manipulating prime presentation duration to highlight the critical
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Visual perceptual processing is unaffected by cognitive fatigue Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Kathleen J. Peters, Dana Maslovat, Anthony N. Carlsen
Cognitive fatigue (CF) can lead to an increase in the latency of simple reaction time, although the processes involved in this delay are unknown. One potential explanation is that a longer time may be required for sensory processing of relevant stimuli. To investigate this possibility, the current study used a visual inspection time task to measure perceptual processing speed before and after a CF
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Intentional binding – Is it just causal binding? A replication study of Suzuki et al. (2019) Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Michael Wiesing, Eckart Zimmermann
Intentional actions produce a temporal compression between the action and its outcome, known as intentional binding. However, Suzuki et al. (2019) recently showed that temporal compression can be observed without intentional actions. However, their results show a clear regression to the mean, which might have confounded the estimates of temporal intervals. To control these effects, we presented temporal
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Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundaries Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Nicholas K. Canby, Jared Lindahl, Willoughby B. Britton, James V. Córdova
Mystical experience, non-dual awareness, selflessness, self-transcendent experience, and ego-dissolution have become increasingly prominent constructs in meditation and psychedelic research. However, these constructs and their measures tend to be highly overlapping, imprecise, and poorly integrated with similar pathological experiences. The present study seeks to clarify the common factors involved
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Viral simulations in dreams: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on threatening dream content in a Finnish sample of diary dreams Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ville Loukola, Jarno Tuominen, Santeri Kirsilä, Annimaaria Kyyhkynen, Maron Lahdenperä, Lilja Parkkali, Emilia Ranta, Eveliina Malinen, Sanni Vanhanen, Katariina Välimaa, Henri Olkoniemi, Antti Revonsuo, Katja Valli
Previous research indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected dreaming negatively. We compared 1132 dreams collected with prospective two-week dream diary during the pandemic to 166 dreams collected before the pandemic. We hypothesized that the pandemic would increase the number of threatening events, threats related to diseases, and the severity of threats. We also hypothesized that dreams that
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Goal characteristics predict the occurrence of goal-related events through belief in future occurrence Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Claudia Garcia Jimenez, Arnaud D'Argembeau
While previous studies have highlighted the role of episodic future thinking in goal pursuit, the underlying cognitive mechanisms remain unexplored. Episodic future thinking may promote goal pursuit by shaping the feeling that imagined events will (or will not) happen in the future – referred to as . We investigated whether goal self-concordance (Experiment 1) and other goal characteristics identified
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Proactive control: Endogenous cueing effects in a two-target attentional blink task Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 S. Montakhaby Nodeh, E. MacLellan, B. Milliken
This study examined proactive control in a two-target task using an endogenous cueing method. Participants identified two target words (T1 then T2) presented in rapid succession. T1 was presented alone or interleaved with a distractor word. In Experiment 1, informative pre-cues that signalled T1 selection difficulty were randomly intermixed with uninformative pre-cues. The results revealed a cueing
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When you look at your past: Eye movement during autobiographical retrieval Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mohamad El Haj
Until recently, little was known about whether or how autobiographical memory (i.e., memory of personal information) activates eye movement. This issue is now being addressed by several studies demonstrating not only how autobiographical memory activates eye movement, but also how eye movement influences the characteristics of autobiographical retrieval. This paper summarizes this research and presents
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Induced awareness of synesthetic sensations in synesthetically predisposed “Borderline Non-synesthetes” Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Kosuke Itoh
A long-standing issue concerning synesthesia is whether the trait is continuous or discontinuous with ordinary perception. Here, we found that a substantial proportion of non-synesthetes (>10 % out of >200 unselected participants) spontaneously became aware of their synesthesia by participating in an online survey that forced them to select colors for stimuli that evoke color sensations in synesthetes
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Low working memory reduces the use of mental contrasting Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 A. Timur Sevincer, Anne Schröder, Alexander Plakides, Nils Edler, Gabriele Oettingen
Mentally contrasting a desired future with reality is a self-regulation strategy that helps people effectively pursue important personal wishes. People with higher self-regulation skills are more likely to spontaneously use mental contrasting. Because one central cognitive function underlying self-regulation is working memory capacity, we investigated whether people with low rather than high working
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A confidence framing effect: Flexible use of evidence in metacognitive monitoring Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Yosuke Sakamoto, Kiyofumi Miyoshi
Human behavior is flexibly regulated by specific goals of cognitive tasks. One notable example is goal-directed modulation of metacognitive behavior, where logically equivalent decision-making problems can yield different patterns of introspective confidence depending on the frame in which they are presented. While this observation highlights the important heuristic nature of metacognitive monitoring
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The role of visual imagery in story reading: Evidence from aphantasia Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Laura J. Speed, Lynn S. Eekhof, Marloes Mak
Aphantasia is a condition in which people are unable to experience visual imagery. Since visual imagery is thought to be key to language processing, we hypothesized the experience of a story would differ between individuals with aphantasia and controls. Forty-seven individuals with aphantasia were compared to fifty-one matched controls on their experience of reading a short story and their general
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What is it like to do a visuo-spatial working memory task: A qualitative phenomenological study of the visual span task Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Aleš Oblak, Oskar Dragan, Anka Slana Ozimič, Urban Kordeš, Nina Purg, Jurij Bon, Grega Repovš
Working memory is typically measured with specifically designed psychological tasks. When evaluating the validity of working memory tasks, we commonly focus on the reliability of the outcome measurements. Only rarely do we focus on how participants experience these tasks. Accounting for lived experience of working memory task may help us better understand variability in working memory performance and
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Suppressing memory associations impacts decision-making preference: Evidence from the think/no-think paradigm Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Chen Lu, Yuetong Lu, Jianqin Wang
Recent research has suggested that episodic memory can guide our decision-making. Forgetting is one essential characteristic of memory. If certain memories are suppressed to be forgotten, decisions that rely on such memories should be impacted. So far, little research has examined whether suppression of episodic memory would impact decision-making. In the current pre-registered study, the effect of
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Distinctive features of experiential time: Duration, speed and event density Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Marianna Lamprou-Kokolaki, Yvan Nédélec, Simon Lhuillier, Virginie van Wassenhove
William James’s use of “time in passing” and “stream of thoughts” may be two sides of the same coin that emerge from the brain segmenting the continuous flow of information into discrete events. Herein, we investigated how the density of events affects two temporal experiences: the felt duration and speed of time. Using a temporal bisection task, participants classified seconds-long videos of naturalistic
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The state-trait sense of self inventory: A psychometric study of self-experience and its relation to psychosis-like manifestations Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Simone Di Plinio, Simone Arnò, Sjoerd J.H. Ebisch
The sense of self is a fundamental construct in the study of the mind, yet its psychological nature remains elusive. We introduce a novel 25-item inventory to investigate selfhood both as an enduring trait and a temporary state. We hypothesized two foundational aspects of the self: identity (related to self-referencing and continuity over time) and agency (the perception of controlling own's actions
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Testing the modulation of self-related automatic and others-related controlled processing by chronotype and time-of-day Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Lucía B. Palmero, Víctor Martínez-Pérez, Miriam Tortajada, Guillermo Campoy, Luis J. Fuentes
We assessed whether self-related automatic and others-related controlled processes are modulated by chronotype and time-of-day. Here, a shape-label matching task composed of three geometrical shapes arbitrarily associated with you, friend, and stranger was used. Twenty Morning-types, and twenty Evening-types performed the task at the optimal and non-optimal times of day (i.e., 8 AM, or 8:30 PM). Morning-types
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Body ownership and kinaesthetic illusions: Dissociated bodily experiences for distinct levels of body consciousness? Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Louise Dupraz, Jessica Bourgin, Lorenzo Pia, Julien Barra, Michel Guerraz
Seeing an embodied humanoid avatar move its arms can induce in the observer the illusion that its own (static) arms are moving accordingly, the kinematic signals emanating from this avatar thus being considered like those from the biological body. Here, we investigated the causal relationship between these kinaesthetic illusions and the illusion of body ownership, manipulated through visuomotor synchronisation
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Is non-synesthetes’ B Blue? Grapheme–color association improves non-synesthetes’ detection in visual search Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Hiroyuki Sasaki, Nana Watanabe
Grapheme–color synesthesia is expected to provide a clue to solving the “binding problem” of visual features. Synesthetic research uses non-synesthetes as a control group and shows that synesthetes perform better with synesthetic color congruency, while non-synesthetes’ performances do not. However, non-synesthetes also have certain grapheme–color associations. Therefore, this study examined whether
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A dual process model of spontaneous conscious thought Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Maria K. Pavlova
In the present article, I review theory and evidence on the psychological mechanisms of mind wandering, paying special attention to its relation with executive control. I then suggest applying a dual-process framework (i.e., automatic vs. controlled processing) to mind wandering and goal-directed thought. I present theoretical arguments and empirical evidence in favor of the view that mind wandering
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Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Anna Eiserbeck, Alexander Enge, Milena Rabovsky, Rasha Abdel Rahman
The present EEG study with 32 healthy participants investigated whether affective knowledge about a person influences the visual awareness of their face, additionally considering the impact of facial appearance. Faces differing in perceived trustworthiness based on appearance were associated with negative or neutral social information and shown as target stimuli in an attentional blink task. As expected
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How to get rich from inflation Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Simon Alexander Burns Brown
We seem to have rich experience across our visual field. Yet we are surprisingly poor at tasks involving the periphery and low spatial attention. Recently, Lau and collaborators have argued that a phenomenon known as “subjective inflation” allows us to reconcile these phenomena. I show inflation is consistent with multiple interpretations, with starkly different consequences for richness and for theories
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The relevance of syntactic complexity for truth judgments: A registered report Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Oliver Schmidt, Daniel W. Heck
Fluency theories predict higher truth judgments for easily processed statements. We investigated two factors relevant for processing fluency: repetition and syntactic complexity. In three online experiments, we manipulated syntactic complexity by creating simple and complex versions of trivia statements. Experiments 1 and 2 replicated the repetition-based truth effect. However, syntactic complexity
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Age differences in priming as a function of processing at encoding Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Emma V. Ward
It is unclear whether implicit memory (priming) is affected by aging. Some studies have reported no difference between young and older adults, while others have uncovered reliable reductions. An important factor that may explain these discrepancies is the manner of encoding. Processing requirements (perceptual/conceptual) have varied considerably between studies, yet processing abilities are not equally
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The misjudgment of interoceptive awareness: Systematic overrating of interoceptive awareness among individuals with lower interoceptive metacognitive skills Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Christian Rominger, Andreas R. Schwerdtfeger
Knowing when perceiving inner bodily signals better and when perceiving them worse is a health relevant but understudied dimension of interoception. Therefore, the present study assessed interoceptive metacognition (IMC) as the skill to adequately monitor interoceptive accuracy in the cardiac domain. We used the Graz Ambulatory Interoception task (GRAIT), which applied two intervals of the heartbeat
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I am not the cause of this pain: An experimental study of the cognitive processes underlying causal attribution in the unpredictable situation whether negative outcomes Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Kazuki Hayashida, Yuki Nishi, Taku Matsukawa, Yuya Nagase, Shu Morioka
Objectives Pain causal attribution is the attribution of pain causes to self or others, which may depend on one's choice of actions. The study aimed to examine how the cognitive processes of pain causal attribution as one aspect of the sense of agency change in healthy individuals based on free or forced choice, using a temporal binding (TB) experimental task. Methods Participants pressed keys (action)
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Explanatory power by vagueness. Challenges to the strong prior hypothesis on hallucinations exemplified by the Charles-Bonnet-Syndrome Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Franz Roman Schmid, Moritz F. Kriegleder
Predictive processing models are often ascribed a certain generality in conceptually unifying the relationships between perception, action, and cognition or the potential to posit a ‘grand unified theory’ of the mind. The limitations of this unification can be seen when these models are applied to specific cognitive phenomena or phenomenal consciousness. Our article discusses these shortcomings for
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Properties of imagined experience across visual, auditory, and other sensory modalities Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Alexander A. Sulfaro, Amanda K. Robinson, Thomas A. Carlson
Little is known about the perceptual characteristics of mental images nor how they vary across sensory modalities. We conducted an exhaustive survey into how mental images are experienced across modalities, mainly targeting visual and auditory imagery of a single stimulus, the letter “O”, to facilitate direct comparisons. We investigated temporal properties of mental images (e.g. onset latency, duration)
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Optimised Multi-Channel Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (MtDCS) Reveals Differential Involvement of the Right-Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex (rVLPFC) and Insular Complex in those Predisposed to Aberrant Experiences Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Shalmali D. Joshi, Giulio Ruffini, Helen E. Nuttall, Derrick G. Watson, Jason J. Braithwaite
Research has shown a prominent role for cortical hyperexcitability underlying aberrant perceptions, hallucinations, and distortions in human conscious experience – even in neurotypical groups. The rVLPFC has been identified as an important structure in mediating cognitive affective states / feeling conscious states. The current study examined the involvement of the rVLPFC in mediating cognitive affective
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Acetylcholine and metacognition during sleep Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Jarrod A. Gott, Sina Stücker, Philipp Kanske, Jan Haaker, Martin Dresler
Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter and neuromodulator involved in a variety of cognitive functions. Additionally, acetylcholine is involved in the regulation of REM sleep: cholinergic neurons in the brainstem and basal forebrain project to and innervate wide areas of the cerebral cortex, and reciprocally interact with other neuromodulatory systems, to produce the sleep-wake cycle and different sleep
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An investigation of the mechanisms underlying the link between abstract reasoning and intrusive memories: A trauma analogue study Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Laurence Chouinard-Gaouette, Isabelle Blanchette
Potentially traumatic events elicit intrusive memories to which some individuals are more vulnerable than others. Lower abstract reasoning capacity has been related to more intrusive memories. A more perceptual processing style when encoding the event may mediate this link. Another potential mechanism is lower attentional control, resulting in greater attentional bias toward trauma-related content
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Feelings of responsibility and temporal binding: A comparison of two measures of the sense of agency Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 John A. Dewey
Temporal binding refers to a subjective shortening of the interval between an action and its perceptual consequences. Temporal binding has often been used by researchers to indirectly measure participants’ sense of agency (SoA), or the subjective sense of causing something to happen. Other studies have proposed links between temporal binding and feelings of moral responsibility. The present study compared
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Self-prioritization effect in the attentional blink paradigm: Attention-based or familiarity-based effect? Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Víctor Martínez-Pérez, Alejandro Sandoval-Lentisco, Miriam Tortajada, Lucía B. Palmero, Guillermo Campoy, Luis J. Fuentes
The self-prioritization effect (SPE) refers to the advantage in processing stimuli associated with oneself. Here, we addressed the SPE in an attentional blink (AB) task. In Experiment 1, shapes associated to you, friend, or stranger served as T1, and letter X as T2. The AB effect was larger for you than the other label conditions, and larger for friend condition than for stranger condition. We suggest
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The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Silvia Serino, Melanie Bieler-Aeschlimann, Andrea Brioschi Guevara, Jean-Francois Démonet, Andrea Serino
The possibility of flexibly retrieving our memories using a first-person or a third-person perspective (1PP or 3PP) has been extensively investigated in episodic memory research. Here, we used a Virtual Reality-based paradigm to manipulate the visual perspective used during the encoding stage to investigate age-related differences in the formation of memories experienced from 1PP vs. 3PP. 32 young
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The self and our perception of its synchrony – Beyond internal and external cognition Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Andrea Scalabrini, Michelangelo De Amicis, Agostino Brugnera, Marco Cavicchioli, Yasir Çatal, Kaan Keskin, Javier Gomez Pilar, Jianfeng Zhang, Bella Osipova, Angelo Compare, Andrea Greco, Francesco Benedetti, Clara Mucci, Georg Northoff
The self is the core of our mental life which connects one’s inner mental life with the external perception. Since synchrony is a key feature of the biological world and its various species, what role does it play for humans? We conducted a large-scale psychological study (n = 1072) combining newly developed visual analogue scales (VAS) for the perception of synchrony and internal and external cognition
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Young children’s subjective and objective thresholds and emergent processes of visual consciousness using a backward masking task Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Ryoichi Watanabe, Yusuke Moriguchi
Visual consciousness studies in humans have primarily focused on adults. However, whether young children’s visual consciousness is similar to or different from that of adults remains unknown. This study examined young children’s and adults’ subjective awareness and objective discrimination for thresholds and emergent processes of visual consciousness in two experiments. In Experiment 1, 20 5–6-year-olds
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The role of consciousness in threat extinction learning Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Charlene L.M. Lam, Tom J. Barry, Jenny Yiend, Tatia M.C. Lee
Extinction learning is regarded as a core mechanism underlying exposure therapy. The extent to which learned threats can be extinguished without conscious awareness is a controversial and on-going debate. We investigated whether implicit vs. explicit exposure to a threatened stimulus can modulate defence responses measured using pupillometry. Healthy participants underwent a threat conditioning paradigm
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The moment of awareness influences the content of awareness in orientation repulsion Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Tomoya Nakamura, Ikuya Murakami
Through the neurally evolving process of dynamic contextual modulation of perceptual contents, it remains unclear how the content of awareness is determined. Here we quantified the visual illusion of orientation repulsion, wherein the target appears tilted against the surrounding’s orientation, and examined whether its extent changed when the target awareness was quickened by a preceding flanker. Independently
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Learning about me and you: Only deterministic stimulus associations elicit self-prioritization Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Parnian Jalalian, Marius Golubickis, Yadvi Sharma, C. Neil Macrae
Self-relevant material has been shown to be prioritized over stimuli relating to others (e.g., friend, stranger), generating benefits in attention, memory, and decision-making. What is not yet understood, however, is whether the conditions under which self-related knowledge is acquired impacts the emergence of self-bias. To address this matter, here we used an associative-learning paradigm in combination
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The impact of feedback on metacognition: Enhancing in easy tasks, impeding in difficult ones Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Tieyong Luo, Cuizhen Liu
Metacognition refers to the ability to monitor and introspect upon cognitive performance. Abundant research suggests that individual metacognition is easily affected by feedback in daily life, but how feedback affects metacognition in perceptual decision-making remains unclear. Here we investigated how trial-by-trial feedback shapes perceptual metacognition in two experiments with either high (n = 82)
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Private speech improves cognitive performance in young adults Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Xinqi Guo, Karen Dobkins
The current study investigated the relationship between private speech usage and cognitive performance in young adults. Participants (n = 103, mean age = 20.21 years) were instructed to complete a visual-spatial working memory task while talking out loud to themselves as much as possible (Private Speech condition). We found that participants performed better on trials for which they produced a greater
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Functional reorganization of the brain in distinct frequency bands during eyes-open meditation Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 G. Pradeep Kumar, Kanishka Sharma, A. Adarsh, Amrutha Manvi, G. Ramajayam, Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan
Meditation is a self-regulatory process practiced primarily to reduce stress, manage emotions and mental health. The objective of this work is to study the information exchange between electrodes within and across the hemispheres during meditation using functional connectivity (FC) measures. We investigate the changes in the coherence between EEG electrode pairs during the meditation with open eyes
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The influence of robot appearance on visual perspective taking: Testing the boundaries of the mere-appearance hypothesis Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Basil Wahn, Leda Berio
Visual perspective taking (VPT) is an integral part of social interactions. While the mechanisms of VPT have been extensively explored in human–human interactions, only a handful of studies have investigated the mechanisms that enable humans to also take the perspective of robots. Previous work has proposed that human-like visual features trigger VPT (mere-appearance hypothesis). In this study, we
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Does walking/running experience shape the sagittal mental time line? Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Yuewen Jiang, Fengxiao Hao, Zhenyi Huang, Ling Chen, Xiaorong Cheng, Zhao Fan, Xianfeng Ding
A growing body of evidence suggested that time could be separately represented either on the lateral or sagittal axis. And the lateral mental time line has an origin associated with sensorimotor experience, e.g., reading/writing. However, it is still not clear whether the sagittal mental time line also originates from sensorimotor experience, e.g., walking/running. To address this question, we examined
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Working memory capacity predicts focus back effort under different task demands Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Hong He, Yunyun Chen, Xuemin Zhang, Qiang Liu
According to the cognitive flexibility view, individuals with higher cognitive control ability are more flexible in experiencing on task or mind wandering during tasks with different loads. On the other hand, the resource-control theory posits that executive control is essential for allocating attentional resources between mind wandering and tasks. Focus back effort may reflect the adjustment of executive
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Let me give you something to think about: Does needing to remember something new make it easier to forget something old? Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Anjali Pandey, Nichole Michaud, Jason Ivanoff, Tracy Taylor
In an item-method directed forgetting task, memory instructions presumably operate by promoting further rehearsal of to-be-remembered (TBR) items and limiting encoding of to-be-forgotten (TBF) items. We asked whether diverting attentional resources away from TBF items and towards a new item that needed to be committed to memory would improve forgetting. To this end, study words in our experiments were
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Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Loren N. Bouyer, Derek H. Arnold, Alan Johnston, Jessica Taubert
Human vision is shaped by historic and by predictive processes. The lingering impact of visual adaptation, for instance, can act to exaggerate differences between past and present inputs, whereas predictive processes can promote extrapolation effects that allow us to anticipate the near future. It is unclear to what extent either of these effects manifest in changes to conscious visual experience.
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The role of free will beliefs in social behavior: Priority areas for future research Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Tom St Quinton, David Trafimow, Oliver Genschow
Recent research has examined the consequences that holding views about free will has on social behavior. Specifically, through manipulating people’s belief in free will, researchers have tested the psychological and behavioral consequences of free will belief change. However, findings of such manipulations have been shown to be relatively small and inconsistent. The purpose of this paper is to outline
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From touch to tingles: Assessing ASMR triggers and their consistency over time with the ASMR Trigger Checklist (ATC) Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Giulia L. Poerio, Angelica Succi, Tom Swart, Vincenzo Romei, Helge Gillmeister
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a term describing a complex sensory-perceptual phenomena characterised by relaxing and pleasurable scalp tingling sensations. A central defining feature of ASMR is that the sensation is elicited by a core set of stimuli or so-called “triggers”. The idea that ASMR is triggered by specific external stimuli is frequently invoked in conceptual definitions
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Hypnagogic states are quite common: Self-reported prevalence, modalities, and gender differences Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Romain Ghibellini, Beat Meier
The hypnagogic state refers to the transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep during which vivid experiences occur. In this questionnaire study, we assessed the self-reported prevalence of hypnagogic states considering the frequency of experiences in different modalities. We also assessed the emotional quality and the vividness of the experiences. Moreover, we compared hypnagogic states to other
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Relative fluency (unfelt vs felt) in active inference Consciousness and Cognition (IF 2.728) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Denis Brouillet, Karl Friston
For a growing number of researchers, it is now accepted that the brain is a predictive organ that predicts the content of the sensorium and crucially the precision of—or confidence in—its own predictions. In order to predict the precision of its predictions, the brain has to infer the reliability of its own beliefs. This means that our brains have to recognise the precision of their predictions or