Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 1992"

TL;DR: Mindfulness is a state of conscious awareness in which the individual is implicitly aware of the context and content of information as mentioned in this paper, whereas mindlessness is defined as an over-reliance on categories and distinctions drawn in the past and is oblivious to novel (or simply alternative) aspects of the situation.

TL;DR: A review of the recent history of work on implicit learning and implicit memory can be found in this paper, where the authors introduce a theoretical framework based on principles of evolutionary biology within which to view them.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a new method for investigating dynamic unconscious processes, which consists of selection of words from patient interview and test protocols that in the clinicians' judgments capture the patients' conscious symptom experience (i.e. [phobia] and the hypothetical unconscious conflict related to the symptom, subliminal and supraliminal presentation of these words, and signal analysis of event-related potentials (ERPs) obtained to the word presentations.

TL;DR: This article found that bizarreness was twice as prevalent in dream reports as in wake-state fantasy reports of the same subjects and also showed differences in other features including the number of persona and remoteness of time and place.

TL;DR: The authors showed that spontaneous trait inference can be subjectively effortless and difficult to disrupt with a concurrent task, but they are not entirely automatic because they do use capacity-limited resources.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relation between errors and awareness in two recent theories of error detection in speech: Perceptual Loop theory and Node Structure theory, together with some nonobvious limitations of these theories.

TL;DR: This article investigated the linkage between the eyes and the mind by having readers inspect long target words as part of a sentence comprehension task and found that the first fixation upon a word is sensitive to information processing that has been completed prior to that fixation.

TL;DR: The well-known behaviorist revolt against consciousness is largely in the past, although that does not mean that the new interest in consciousness is without many unsolved problems Cognitive psychology is not necessarily a consciousness psychology, and humanistic psychology, friendly to consciousness, has difficulty in maintaining scientific status as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether the host personality and the primary alterpersonality (Pa) of a woman with multiple personality disorder are controlled by the left and right hemispheres, respectively, and concluded that shifts in hemisphericity involve redistribution of attentional resources and callosal suppression.

TL;DR: A review of the evidence that negative moods increase self-focus can be found in this article, where a number of studies have been conducted to investigate the influence of affective states on the focus of attention.

TL;DR: The long effective S-C intervals support the thesis that a duration of cortical activity of up to 0.5 s is required before awareness Of a sensory Stimulus is developed and demonstrates that the content of a sensory experience can be altered by another cerebral input introduced after the sensory signal arrives at the cortex.

TL;DR: In this article, MacKay reviews his Node Structure theory of error detection, but precedes it with a critical discussion of the Perceptual Loop theory of self-monitoring proposed in Levelt (1983, 1989).

TL;DR: This article showed that binocularly fused letters are not totally unconscious-like computer data, but are consciously experienced as sourceless sensations that are memorially confused with visually imaged sensations.

TL;DR: This paper found that negative affective valence decreased the recognition of words reported as consciously perceived but increased recognition of unreported words, which could not be attributed to report biases or to the acoustic properties of the stimuli.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors construe the actions of a person as governed by a self-narrative, at one time the person is the narrator, the author, the scriptwriter; at other times, the spectator.

TL;DR: The Popperian epistemology underlying Levelt's commentary and other aspects of contemporary psychology has limited application and does not apply to the creation or development of theory, the main goal of MacKay (1992a).