Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 1999"

TL;DR: It is concluded that perceptual fluency affects judgments of truth in statements presented in colors that made them easy or difficult to read against a white background.

TL;DR: It is suggested that sensory and cognitive processing in the What processing stream of the brain obey top-down matching and learning laws that are often complementary to those used for spatial and motorprocessing in the brain's Where processing stream, which enables their sensory and Cognitive representations to maintain their stability as the authors learn more about the world.

TL;DR: In this paper, it has been suggested that synchronization of neuronal discharges can serve for the integration of distributed neurons into cell assemblies and that this process may underlie the selection of perceptually and behaviorally relevant information.

TL;DR: It is proposed that each node of a processing-perceptual system creates its own microconsciousness, and that, if any binding occurs to give us the authors' integrated image of the visual world, it must be a binding between microconsciousnesses generated at different nodes.

TL;DR: A three-factor structural model of HHEs based on their relations both to cultural narratives and REM neurophysiology is developed and tested with several large samples and central features of the model developed here are consistent with recent work on hallucinations associated with hypnosis and schizophrenia.

TL;DR: Transcendental Meditation practice appears to lead to a state fundamentally different than eyes-closed rest, result in a cascade of events in the central and autonomic nervous systems, leading to a rapid change in state within a minute, and be best distinguished from other conditions through autonomic and EEG alpha coherence patterns rather than alpha power.

TL;DR: The science of consciousness needs to establish a clear theoretical view of the relation between binding and consciousness and to encourage further empirical work that builds on such a theoretical foundation.

TL;DR: The dysfunction of the PFC is suggested to be the neural correlate for the different clinical schizophrenic subsyndromes and the pathophysiological study of psychiatric disorders may contribute to the theoretical debate on the neuronal basis of the self model.

TL;DR: The basic sensory neurophysiology associated with tissue injury is reviewed, including transduction, transmission, modulation, and central representation, and the central mechanisms for the emotional aspects of pain are highlighted, demonstrating the physiological link between tissue trauma and mechanisms of emotional arousal.

TL;DR: Accumulated evidence for the role of a subcortical matrix in linking frontal and hippocampal systems to select and "stream" conscious episodes across time is reviewed.

TL;DR: How the design of CMattie accounts for these facts and thereby the extent to which it implements global workspace theory is discussed, which integrates contemporary architectures in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

TL;DR: This study tested the hypothesis that overt rehearsal is sufficient to explain enhanced memory associated with emotion by experimentally manipulating rehearsal of emotional material by instructing participants to discuss both sets of films with at least three people.

TL;DR: This article reports a study comparing the effects of a single dose of alcohol with a matched placebo drink on recognition memory with and without conscious recollection, which provides further evidence that remembering and knowing reflect distinct memory systems.

TL;DR: The results imply that knowing does not index an automatic familiarity process, as conceived in some dual-process models of recognition, and that both remembering and knowing increase with the slower, more controlled processing permitted by the longer response time.

TL;DR: Results of these experiments indicate that specific patterns of GSO correlate closely with specific aspects of conscious sensorimotor processing, which means that GSO appear to be closely correlated with neural generation of the authors' most paradigmatic cognitive state: consciousness.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented suggesting that earlier or later waves in the auditory evoked potential do not covary with auditory sensation and it is suggested that they are possibly not the electrophysiological correlates of sensation.

TL;DR: This paper argues for an explanation of the mechanistic (computational) basis of consciousness that is based on the distinction between localist (symbolic) representation and distributed representation, the ideas of which have been put forth in the connectionist literature.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the process-dissociation procedure is relatively immune to influences of motivation when used with a memory task, but that caution should be exercised when the process's use with a perception task.

TL;DR: A prototype for innovative experimental procedures to characterize the contribution of the prefrontal cortex to adaptive decision making is designed, the Cognitive Bias Task, and the novel findings generated by this task are presented.

TL;DR: It is shown that Nida-Rümelin's argument does not rest solely on color science, but also on a philosophically controversial assumption, namely, that visual states of color supervene on physiological states, which has the effect of simply ruling out certain versions of functionalism.

TL;DR: The results show that priming from generating can be involuntary and suggest that lexical processes are responsible, and are also the first results conjointly showing a crossed double Dissociation, a single dissociation, and a parallel effect across memory tests with identical physical retrieval cues.

TL;DR: The idea that an elementary nonarbitrary linkage between temporal or spatiotemporal patterns of neuronal activity and their subjective attributes is proposed and developed, which leads to the idea that the neural correlates of consciousness are essentially innate and universal.

TL;DR: J ames Sloss Ackerman, author of two of the most influential books on Renaissance architecture in the English language, The Architecture of Michelangelo and Palladio, died in the last hours of 2016.

TL;DR: An experiment was conducted on the basis of which left overextension should be larger with shorter than with longer segments and with segments lying in the right rather than in the left hemispace, and the results unveiled unexpected complications.

TL;DR: A description of phenomenal consciousness based on what introspection tells us about its contents is offered, and it is suggested that the binocular rivalry obtained in the case of the stroboscopic patterns that result from intermittent photic stimulation of one eye, when used in animal expeiments with unit recording, offers a good experimental method of investigating the binding problem.

TL;DR: A large body of evidence has accumulated which supports the notion that response synchronization is involved in selection and binding of distributed responses, and is ideally suited to mediate selective transmission of coherent responses and for gating the access of relevant signals to phenomenal consciousness.

TL;DR: It can be shown that no retinotopic (in a strict sense) cortical areas can serve as the NCC, although some type of topographic representation is necessary.

TL;DR: A technique for the bilateral activation of neural nets that leads to a functional asymmetry of two simulated "cerebral hemispheres" is described, and the functional dualities of the cerebral hemisphere are discussed in light of the nucleus/fringe asymmetry.