Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 1994"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first round of results from an ongoing program of research that suggests that source misattributions could be a powerful mechanism underlying children's false beliefs about having experienced fictitious events.

TL;DR: This paper found that the social-interactive aspects of an experience influence the content and form of what is later recalled, and suggested that autobiographical memory development and language are inextricably bound together by the role of linguistic input in adult-child construction of experience.

TL;DR: Memory did not reliably vary for children who endured the medical procedure once versus multiple times, and age differences in memory emerged, especially when comparing 3- to 4-year-olds with older children.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the emotional profile of dreams and the relationship between dream emotion and cognition using a form that specifically asked subjects to identify emotions within their dreams and found that there was no significant difference in the profiles of emotion reported by men and women.

TL;DR: In this article, a long-term study of survivors of childhood sexual abuse is presented, showing that children remember when "I wasn't there" when they were sexually abused.

TL;DR: One hundred two 7-year-olds participated in a staged activity and were randomly assigned to one of two treatment conditions (Intervention or Control) and two weeks later, they were tested in an interview with an unfamiliar authority figure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the nature and onset of very early personal memories, especially for traumatic events, and the role of stress in long-term retention, and conclude that very young children (under the age of 2 years) retain limited memories for events which they commonly express behaviorally.

TL;DR: In this paper, a converging measures approach is used to investigate the range and limits of cognition and metacognition across the sleep-wakefulness cycle. But, as a result, the work in this paper is limited to the context of "lucid-control" dreaming, where the subject is aware that the experimental context is a dream and has the ability to intentionally regulate aspects of the dream (control).

TL;DR: The "Nightcap" sleep monitoring system as mentioned in this paper was used by 11 subjects on 10 consecutive nights in their homes to collect sleep mentation reports with correlated sleep staging under normal ecological conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, three general patterns of traumatic recall are identified: relatively continuous and complete recall of childhood abuse experiences coupled with changing interpretations (delayed understanding) of these experiences, partial amnesia for abuse events, accompanied by a mixture of delayed recall and delayed understanding, and delayed recall following a period of profound and pervasive amnesia.

TL;DR: A review of the available evidence suggests that although the prior accessibility of a memory may be difficult to determine, recovered memory reports can sometimes be corroborated with respect to their correspondence to actual abuse, there is evidence for fluctuations in the accessibility of traumatic experiences, particularly for situations that are extremely difficult to talk about as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive, detailed, and quantitative picture of cognition in human dreaming is provided, which can be used to map state-dependent mental phenomena back onto the varying neurobiological processes that must underlie them.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis of dream discontinuities using a new methodology that allows for objective characterization of this formal dream feature was performed, concluding that significant coherence is maintained by associational constraints, especially in the case of object and character transformations.

TL;DR: This article found that children only repeated about 20% of the information they themselves recalled across the two interviews and that information mutually discussed by the mother and child was no more likely to be incorporated or repeated when recalling the event with the experimenter than information not mutually discussed.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a home-based study of children's dream reports in which parents used open-ended interviewing styles to collect 88 dream reports from their 4- to 10-year-old children in the comfortable and supportive environment of their own homes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the possibility that mental health professional and client may unknowingly collaborate to create a client's false memory of childhood sexual abuse, and the confirmation bias shows that people discover what they already believe to be true.

TL;DR: Observations support the view that a high frequency oscillatory mechanisms, recorded as a grouped neuronal activity in the MLAEP, may be part of a basic neuronal program for conscious sensory information processing.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is reported that memory for a more frequently occurring event is more resistant to suggestibility than is memory for an event experienced only once, this finding is especially relevant to memory for child abuse as it is common for perpetrators to frequently abuse the same child.

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel "dream splicing" technique allows the objective evaluation of thematic coherence in dreams, and they conclude that most dream reports contain sufficient coherence to allow judges to distinguish intact from spliced reports.

TL;DR: Although hypnotic ability was not significantly associated with therapeutic outcome, high but not low hypnotizable patients accurately guessed whether they were played suggestions, and no compelling evidence for memory of melodies was obtained.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the changes in cognitive function which occur as someone "loses consciousness" under anesthesia, and found that performance on these tests declined as the dose of anesthetic was increased and returned to baseline after 10 min of breathing air.

TL;DR: In this paper, a graph-based method of quantitatively assessing continuity and discontinuity of visual attention is developed. The method is based on representing narrative information using graph theory and is applicable to any type of narrative report.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors try to reduce the polarization that has characterized discussion of memory work in psychotherapy, and they try to persuade practitioners whose work includes a focus on childhood trauma to be cautious in their use of memory recovery techniques without undermining support for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

TL;DR: Searle as discussed by the authors argued that the neglect of consciousness is responsible for so much barrenness and sterility in psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind, and he proposed to locate consciousness in the natural world by breaking with the materialist tradition of inquiry into mind and behavior.

TL;DR: The authors found that emotion, especially changes in emotion, are correlated with discontinuities in visual imagery, and these correlations are quantified using a new graph theoretical method for analyzing narrative reports.

TL;DR: The authors examined how inner theories (coherent sets of propositional beliefs and attitudes) influence lexical choice and found that subjects were more likely to use human pronouns rather than it for referring to pets.