Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 2001"

TL;DR: A common set of neuroanatomical regions appeared to be the locus of the most probable generators of the observed EEG changes, with prefrontal and frontal regions of each hemisphere becoming more closely coupled and anterior and posterior regions on each hemisphere, as well as homologous regions between the two hemispheres, uncoupling.

TL;DR: The Situational Self-Awareness Scale (SSAS) was found to have a reliable factor structure, to detect differences in public and private self-awareness produced by laboratory manipulations, and to be sensitive to changes in self- awareness within individuals over time and across situations.

TL;DR: Four subliminal perception experiments using the relationship between confidence and accuracy to assess awareness and suggest that under certain circumstances people can make perceptual discriminations even though the information that was used to make those discriminations is not consciously available.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented herein of invariant features of brain electrical activity found to change reversibly with loss and return of consciousness in a study of 176 patients anesthetized during surgical procedures, leading to a postulation that consciousness is a property of quantum-like processes within a brain field resonating within a core of structures, which may be the neural substrate of consciousness.

TL;DR: This article outlines a strategy for changing the fortunes of prospective memory, for guiding new research to shore up the claim that prospective memory is a distinct aspect of cognition, and to obtain evidence for clear performance dissociations between prospective memory and other memory functions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a multiplicative function of two key components (the number of subjective time units and their size) should predict apparent duration, and an analogy is suggested between apparent duration and apparent movement.

TL;DR: This work identifies a neural correlate of visual awareness, using brief subliminal and supraliminal verbal stimuli while measuring cerebral blood flow distribution with H(2)(15)O PET, and suggests participation of higher order perceptual and executive cortical structures in visual verbal awareness.

TL;DR: It is argued that an effect in the opposite direction to that normally observed in evaluative learning emerged in participants aware of the stimulus contingencies pose serious problems for the contention that awareness is necessary for evaluatives learning.

TL;DR: While phenomenal experience and self-awareness are usually present during dreaming, meta-awareness is usually absent (apart from some particular experiences of self-reflectiveness) with the major exception of lucid dreaming.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the existence of a satisfactory match indicates that GY has phenomenal vision.

TL;DR: The results of the present study suggest that FOK judgments are impaired in patients with schizophrenia, which confirms that schizophrenia is an illness characterized by an impaired conscious awareness of one's own knowledge.

TL;DR: The hypothesis being proposed is that the experience-dependent maturation of the orbitalfrontal cortex in early abusive environments, characterized by discontinuity in dyadic socioaffective interactions between the infant and the caregiver, may be responsible for a pattern of lateral inhibition between conflicting subsets of self-representations which are normally integrated into a unified self.

TL;DR: There was only a weak relationship between pro- and retrospective memory, and the age-related decline in processing resources was related more strongly to retro- than prospective memory.

TL;DR: Experimental evidence and a theoretical framework for the existence of the central representation are presented, which relates the extra component to specific buffer working memory sites in the inferior parietal lobes, acting as attentional coordinators on the spatial maps making up thecentral representation.

TL;DR: It is argued that visual perception might inform and constrain auditory processing, while auditory perception corresponds to too many potential visual events to usefully inform andconstrain visual perception.

TL;DR: The spirit of Ross’s rejection of arguments against color physicalism based on metamerism is agreed, though a different way of casting the issues is urged, as it is argued that his rejection of color subjectivism does not give us reason to endorse colorPhysicalism.

TL;DR: It is argued that subjectivism is untenable because this view cannot provide a plausible account of color perception, and that the scientifically motivated argument for this view is unsound.

TL;DR: It is argued that while synchronization and oscillatory patterning are necessary conditions for consciousness, they are not sufficient and that activities in temporal cortex contribute little, if anything, to perceptual awareness, and that their primary function is computational.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the DPS-E may provide an exploratory basis for a reliable and valid tool for capturing and quantifying the properties of dream experiences that could reflect physiological activities without the intervention of experimenters.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that dream recall and dream length are quite stable, but dream characteristics such as bizarreness and emotional tone underlie large intraindividual fluctuations.

TL;DR: After a critical review of Fulcher and Hammerl's work, this article discusses issues with reference to what can be realistically inferred about the mechanisms underlying EC.

TL;DR: The role of contingency awareness in evaluative conditioning has been a contentious issue for quite some time now as mentioned in this paper, and the results of Fulcher and Hammerl provide another interesting contribution to the debate.

TL;DR: In this paper, E. R. John et al. present the scientific basis of a practical "consciousness monitor" in two articles, and show widespread and consistent electrical field changes across subjects and anesthetic agents as soon as consciousness is lost; these changes reverse when consciousness is regained afterward.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the effects of evaluative learning may occur without conscious perception of the affective stimuli, without awareness of the stimulus contingencies, and without any awareness that learning has occurred at all.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a realist view of qualitative properties, such as Ross's, together with a direct, active view of perception, and a concept of "extended mind" may provide the materials for a real solution to the notorious "hard problem" of consciousness.

TL;DR: It is claimed that Ross’s way out of his subjectivism argument carries equally unacceptable costs, and that there are more attractive ways of avoiding color subjectivism than those he considers.

TL;DR: Both experiments demonstrated that increasing the display set size lengthened face detection time, however, the lengthening was a function of face fame, and the search context also had an effect on the slope of the famous face detection.