Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 2007"

TL;DR: The visual-tactile correlation that causes the RHI is computed within a hand-centred frame of reference, which is updated with changes in body posture, and concludes that current sensory evidence about what is 'me' is interpreted with respect to a prior mental body representation.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the coherent experience of the body depends on the integration of efferent information with afferent information in action contexts, and whereas afferent signals provide the distinctive content of one's own body experience, efferent signals seem to structure the experience of one't own body in an integrative and coherent way.

TL;DR: Pianists who were relatively accurate at synchronizing with their own performances were also good at recognizing them, suggesting action simulation may underlie both synchronization and self-recognition.

TL;DR: Neuropsychological, neuropathological, electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies using the own name and own face paradigm obtained in conscious waking, sleep, pharmacological coma, pathological coma and related disorders of consciousness are reviewed.

TL;DR: The results of four experiments provide evidence for controlled processing in the absence of awareness by showing that the contingency effect results from behavioural control and not from semantic association or stimulus familiarity.

TL;DR: This article defends the assumption that inner speech can be considered as a form of action, and shows how a number of previous criticisms of applying the NASS to AVHs can be refuted.

TL;DR: This study compares the behavioural performance of 7 projector and 7 associator synaesthetes and proposes an alternative model of individual differences in grapheme-colour synaesthesia that emphasises the role of different spatial reference frames in synaesthetic perception.

TL;DR: It is proposed to interpret processes of sensorimotor integration in light of the phenomenological approach that allows the definition of pre-reflective self-consciousness.

TL;DR: This study examined whether implicit motor learning, relative to explicit motorlearning, conferred motor output that was resilient to physiological fatigue and durable over time.

TL;DR: Cognitive psychologists interested in conducting research relevant to assessing the authenticity of memories for child sexual abuse should consider the generalizability of their research to the planting of entirely new events in memory.

TL;DR: It is argued that the FOK deficit specific to episodic memory is based on a lack of memory awareness manifest as a recollection deficit, and this reflective function of metacognition in older adults is examined.

TL;DR: The observed subliminal priming effects for novel primes cannot be driven by partial analysis of primes at the word-fragment level; they suggest instead that primes were processed semantically as whole words contingent upon prime duration.

TL;DR: Two clinical vignettes of patients with the diagnosis of schizophrenia will be presented, illustrating early illness stages and the second case, of chronic schizophrenia, symptomatically marked by persistent hallucinations, and the experiential dimensions of minimal self will be discussed.

TL;DR: It is shown through the concrete example of epileptic seizure anticipation how neuro-dynamic analysis and "pheno-d dynamic" analysis may guide and determine each other to consolidate the foundations of a cognitive non pharmacological therapy of epilepsy.

TL;DR: Findings highlight developmental differences between the episodic and semantic subcomponents of autobiographical memory and support the view that mental 'time travel' through subjective time, which allows one to re-experience the past through self-awareness, is the last feature of autobiographic memory to become fully operational.

TL;DR: Results showed that among the older participants, R responses decreased, but K responses did not, and a hierarchical regression analysis supported the view that the effect of age in recollection experience is determined by frontal lobe integrity and not by diminution of processing speed.

TL;DR: Three experiments are presented in which manipulations that have shown differential effects on different kinds of conscious awareness in memory in typical populations are employed with a sample of adults with Asperger's syndrome, suggesting that the experiences of remembering reported by such individuals, although reduced in quantity, are qualitatively similar to those seen in the typical population.

TL;DR: Results show that schizophrenia impairs episodic and autobiographical memories in their critical feature: autonoetic awareness, i.e., the type of awareness experienced when mentally reliving events from one's past.

TL;DR: A condition in which units of time, such as months of the year, are associated with specific locations in space, found that the time-space associations experienced by these individuals were consistent across test-retest.

TL;DR: A neuro-cognitive model based on the integration of afferent and efferent information will be described, which suggests that action simulation and associated predicted sensory consequences may represent the underlying principle that enables pre-reflective representations of the body for space categorisation and selection for action.

TL;DR: An investigation of attributional style in a 24-year-old woman with Cotard delusion showed a significantly greater proportion of internalising attributions than the control group, both overall and for negative events specifically.

TL;DR: The results indicate that temporal binding is a general associative mechanism that facilitates the learning of movement-effect contingencies and is sensitive to explicit intentional attributions, which selectively enhance the link between an intentional movement and the effect a moving agent intends to produce.

TL;DR: It is concluded that several types of false memory research have advanced the knowledge of autobiographical and recovered memories, and that future research will continue to make significant contributions to how the authors understand memory and memory errors.

TL;DR: The experience of intentional action involves an interplay between pre-motor and reconstructive processes, and it is suggested that this mechanism is triggered in advance by efferent processing.

TL;DR: This study examined people's ability to predict and postdict their performance on an event-based prospective memory task using nonfocal cues and concluded that people do have a basic awareness of their prospective memory abilities, but that this awareness is far from accurate.

TL;DR: This modified paradigm, which includes a novel exclusion task, makes it easier to demonstrate a previously controversial influence of response stimulus interval (RSI) on awareness and suggests possible distinctions between two components of fringe consciousness.

TL;DR: The development of action representation during adolescence was investigated using a visually guided pointing motor task (VGPT) to test motor imagery, and performance on the VGPT in both adolescents and adults conformed to Fitts' Law in E and I conditions.

TL;DR: It is shown that suggestion administered to highly hypnotizable persons significantly reduced Stroop interference and derailed a seemingly automatic process.

TL;DR: In a prospective study, 383 individuals reported individual episodes online providing further evidence for the three-factor structure as well as clearer conceptually meaningful relations among factors than retrospective studies, suggesting a potential model for the thematic organization of nightmares and dreams more generally.

TL;DR: It is concluded that endogenous orienting with peripheral cues can occur independently of participants developing explicit hypotheses about the cue-target relationships.