Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 1993"

TL;DR: In this article, a functional analysis of the "fringe" of the human brain is presented, which is a subset of monitoring and control experiences that cannot be elaborated in focal attention and are "ineffable".

TL;DR: This paper argued that the most promising sort of scientific model of the self-ascription of mental states is one that posits the kinds of phenomenal properties invoked by folk psychology, and that the folk-psychological constructs should not be jettisoned; they have a role to play in cognitive theorizing.

TL;DR: This article found that both strategy preference and word meaning interacted with strategy condition, mediating the accuracy of subjects' direct word identification judgments, and that motivation also mediated performance in the absence of conscious perception.

TL;DR: The facial musculature and the neural paths thought to innervate it are reviewed, as well as previous attempts at understanding the neural control of facial expressions of emotion, focusing on the voluntary-involuntary dichotomy and studies of hemispheric specialization.

TL;DR: The authors found that task preference had no effect when blank cards rather than words were presented and that the words could not be detected when subjects were simply asked to decide on each trial whether a stimulus had been presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relation of consciousness to the brain is discussed and some features that an empirical theory of consciousness should try to explain are discussed. And some common mistakes to avoid.

TL;DR: In this paper, pictures of line drawn objects and animals were subliminally presented to each visual half-field for subsequent identification in a form as fragmented as possible, and the results showed that pictures presented below the threshold of verbal awareness can be perceived, and only the right hemisphere can perceive them and make use of the perception.

TL;DR: The Cartesian Theater does not necessarily imply that contents must fully "arrive" in consciousness at a single, specifiable instant; criticism of the Cartesian theater based on this attribution is thus without force as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a modern version of William James′ ideomotor theory is proposed, based on Global Workspace theory, which shows how a conscious goal image could activate unconscious plans and automatisms that shape a voluntary act.

TL;DR: Evidence of subconscious processing violates conclusions of preconscious processing and suggests that something more is involved—perhaps a link between mental representations of events and of the self as the agent or experiencer of them.

TL;DR: In this paper, the subjective and information processing dimensions of imagery are discussed and a theory of a self-regulating cognitive system employing a verification procedure to control resource allocation is proposed.

TL;DR: This article argued that the inhibitory effects satisfy objective threshold criteria regardless of possible individual differences in thresholds and that therefore they do not need to make the exhaustiveness assumption and thus stand by their original conclusion that subliminal perception at the objective threshold has been demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine three empirical cases: the tip-of-the-tongue experience, the fringe experience of wrongness, and the case of conscious focus on abstract, hard-to-image conscious contents.

TL;DR: The notion of fringe consciousness as discussed by the authors provides a theoretical motivation for drawing together a diverse class of experiences which are called "feelings" in everyday language, and feelings of knowing and emotional feelings are seen not to differ in kind from each other.

TL;DR: In this paper, a taxonomy of the various ways different approaches have tried to give an account of the central target of subjective experience is presented, and it is argued that a better understanding of the underlying neurophysiological and computational mechanisms is needed if Dennett′s theory is to resolve, rather than side-step, those problems related to the subjective phenomenology of consciousness.

TL;DR: In this paper, Dennett proposes a deflationary treatment of sensory qualia, and proposes a thought experiment about a blindsight patient who has the sensory information that normals do, but who seems not to have their sensory information.

TL;DR: This article argued that Mangan's analysis of the way feelings at the fringes of consciousness provide global evaluations of what is happening at the focus of attention in ways that allow the human mind to direct its activities in an effective, adaptive way.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the case of a 46-year-old male who could perform certain rule-induction tasks without awareness of the operative rules after surviving nonaccidental carbon monoxide poisoning.