Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 2006"

TL;DR: Whereas a purely proprioceptive sense of body-ownership is local and fragmented, the motor sense of agency integrates distinct body-parts into a coherent, unified awareness of the body.

TL;DR: Although the ARCES was significantly associated with the BPS, this association was entirely accounted for by the MAAS, suggesting that performance errors and boredom are separate consequences of lapses in attention.

TL;DR: It is found that individuals with a higher capacity for visual imagery experienced more visual and other sensory details both when remembering past events and when imagining future events, and individuals who habitually use suppression to regulate their emotions experienced fewer sensory, contextual, and emotional details.

TL;DR: In three experiments, the relation between different modes of thought and the generation of "creative" and original ideas was investigated and it was concluded that whereas conscious thought may be focused and convergent, unconsciousthought may be more associative and divergent.

TL;DR: The present article reviews the available evidence regarding unconscious features of indirectly assessed "implicit" attitudes and concludes that people sometimes lack conscious awareness of the origin of their attitudes, but that lack of source awareness is not a distinguishing feature of directly assessed versus self-reported attitudes.

TL;DR: The experimental study described in this article finds support for this opposite notion that the authors should have a parsimonious account of conscious perception, and relates to the hypothesis that there is more than one perceptual threshold.

TL;DR: This paper presents and compares nine neurocognitive models to highlight points of convergence and divergence and concludes that many novel concepts are useful in helping us distinguish between delicate variations in consciousness and in clarifying theoretical issues that have been intensely debated in the scientific literature.

TL;DR: There is a global episodic AM impairment of positive memories in depression regarding specificity, autonoetic consciousness, and self-perspective, and the results suggest new cognitive interventions to improve the self-relevance of positive Memories in depression.

TL;DR: A brain-inspired cognitive architecture that incorporates approximations to the concepts of consciousness, imagination, and emotion is proposed which is based on weightless neurons and is used to control a simulated robot.

TL;DR: In a first experiment, inattentional blindness was combined with eye tracking data from children and the expert-novice paradigm was used to show that the probability of seeing an unexpected object can be increased with specific previous experience.

TL;DR: Johansson et al. as mentioned in this paper used word-frequency and latent semantic analysis (LSA) to investigate a corpus of introspective reports collected within the choice blindness paradigm, and found very few differences between these two groups of reports.

TL;DR: It is argued that higher-order processing is an evolutionary addition to stimulus-based processing, and its value is shown for gaining insight into a range of phenomena and their link with consciousness.

TL;DR: In this article, word-frequency and latent semantic analysis (LSA) are used to investigate a corpus of introspective reports collected within the choice blindness paradigm and contrast the introspective reasons given in non-manipulated vs. manipulated trials, but find very few differences between these two groups of reports.

TL;DR: Two ways of using phenomenology in experimental procedures are identified: first, the neurophenomenological method, proposed by Varela, involves the training of experimental subjects, and a second approach may have wider application and does not involve training experimental subjects in phenomenological method.

TL;DR: According to the majority of the textbooks, the history of modern, scientific psychology can be tidily encapsulated in the following three stages: introspection, cognitive revolution, and cognitive revolution as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The neuropsychology of religious activity in normal and selected clinical populations is reviewed and dopaminergic activation as the leading neurochemical feature associated with religious activity is generally point to.

TL;DR: It is argued that all three stages of this history are largely mythical, and this version of psychology's history obscures some deep conceptual problems, not least surrounding the modern conception of "behaviour," that continues to make the scientific study of consciousness seem so weird.

TL;DR: Irrespective of the instructions given to the participants during the task, participants were more likely to retrieve information on the basis of recollection after an error was made than before, whilst the likelihood of retrieving information onThe basis of familiarity remained invariant over the same period.

TL;DR: It is argued that the difference in RTs to remember and know responses reflects the time taken to make old/new decisions on the basis of the type of information activated at test.

TL;DR: It is shown that the NEO-PI-R personality measure of openness to feelings, chosen to reflect the ability to introspect on fringe feelings, influences both learning and awareness in the serial reaction time (SRT) task under conditions that have previously been associated with implicit learning.

TL;DR: It is argued that recent cognitive and neurophysiological evidence favours an endorsement model of the delusion of alien control, and the debate between endorsement and explanationist models with respect to the 'alien control' delusion is examined.

TL;DR: LRP data in free choice trials indicate that the prime was not ineffective in trials in which participants chose the non-primed response as then it delayed performance of the incongruently primed response.

TL;DR: Mixed support is provided for the threat simulation theory of dreams using a sample of 212 recurrent dreams scored using a slightly expanded version of the DreamThreat rating scale.

TL;DR: A four-part hypothesis is presented, in which body image is learnt from experience during both pre- and post-natal development, and in which cross-cortical connections and mirror neurons play prominent roles, to offer a viable solution to several longstanding phantom limb mysteries.

TL;DR: Investigating the level of impairment of action monitoring in schizophrenia by evaluating the performance of schizophrenic patients on mental rotation tasks found patients suffering from hallucinations made significantly more errors than non-hallucinatory patients.

TL;DR: A mentalistic and nativist view of human early mental and social life and of the ontogeny of mindreading is proposed, arguing that the child takes all of her mental states as shared with her caregivers.

TL;DR: It is concluded that perceptual priming, but not conceptualPriming, takes place in the absence of conscious awareness.

TL;DR: The results showed that fluency due to pre-exposure influenced responses less when objects were presented with high picture quality, suggesting that attributions of fluency to preference and familiarity are adjusted according to expectations about the different test pictures.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that when CB occurs, both the pre-change and post-change stimulus information primes are available despite its unavailability to consciousness, and also indicates that when change detection occurs only the post- change informationPrimes.