Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 2008"

TL;DR: A sharp distinction is drawn between a non-conceptual level of feeling of agency and a conceptual level of judgement of agency, which is able to provide a unified account for the sense of agency for both actions and thoughts.

TL;DR: It is suggested that human beings have a predisposition for social cognition as the default mode of cognizing which is implemented in the robust pattern of intrinsic brain activity known as the "default system".

TL;DR: It is proposed that the multisensory perception of flavor may be indicative of the fact that the taxonomy currently used to define the authors' senses is simply not appropriate.

TL;DR: This paper explains precisely what the notion of direct perception means, offers evidence from developmental studies, and proposes a non-simulationist interpretation of the neuroscience of mirror systems.

TL;DR: A multifactorial and multilevel model of the sense of agency may provide the most constructive framework for integrating divergent theories and findings, meeting the complex nature of this intriguing phenomenon.

TL;DR: It is shown that the experience of action depends on a dynamic combination of predictive and inferential processes, and is modulated by recent experience of the action-effect relation.

TL;DR: Structural modeling revealed the associations to be optimally explained by the MAAS-LO and MFS influencing the BPS and BDI-II, contrary to current conceptions of attention and memory problems as consequences of affective dysfunction.

TL;DR: It is found that involuntary future event representations-defined as representations of possible personal future events that come to mind with no preceding search attempts-were as common as involuntary autobiographical memories and similar to them regarding cuing and subjective qualities.

TL;DR: It is argued that componential emotion models, and specifically the Component Process Model (CPM), may be better able to account for the emergence of feelings than basic emotion or dimensional models.

TL;DR: An experiment was designed to test the impact of ownership on memory performance, and it was revealed that there was a significant memory advantage for objects that were owned by self.

TL;DR: This work investigates brain areas whose activity during passive viewing of dance stimuli was related to later, independent aesthetic evaluation of the same stimuli, suggesting a possible role of visual and sensorimotor brain areas in an automatic aesthetic response to dance.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the contents of memory are routinely sampled during the construction of personal future scenarios and are associated with more detailed images of the future and a stronger subjective experience.

TL;DR: A new systematic account of two of its main features, thesense of agency and the sense of ownership, is provided, demonstrating that although both features appear as phenomenally uniform, they each are complex crossmodal phenomena of largely heterogeneous functional and (self-)representational levels.

TL;DR: This review explores how self-reflection and autobiographical memory influence the capacity to think about the thoughts and emotions of others and considers whether there are conditions in which the reverse is true, where self- Reflection might impair mindreading or in which mindreading may facilitate self-Reflection.

TL;DR: This study found that each of the five phenomena occurred in approximately one quarter of sampled moments, that the frequency of these phenomena varied widely across individuals, and that higher frequencies of inner speech were associated with lower levels of psychological distress.

TL;DR: An examination of anosognosia for hemiplegia--the inability to recognise that one is paralysed down one side of one's body--suggests the existence of 'online' and 'offline' representations of the body.

TL;DR: The results of research that has investigated phenomena such as "change blindness", phantom limb sensations, and numerosity judgments in tactile perception, together with the results obtained from the study of patients affected by deficits that can adversely affect tactile perception such as neglect, extinction, and numbsense are discussed.

TL;DR: It is argued that there are basic levels of interpersonal understanding-in particular the understanding of emotional expressions-that are not explicable in terms of simulation-plus-projection routines.

TL;DR: Behavioural evidence suggests that cephalopod molluscs may have a form of primary consciousness, and if using a 'global workspace' which evaluates memory input and focuses attention is the criterion, cEPhalopods appear to have primary consciousness.

TL;DR: The results indicate that kinematics is sensitive to social intention, and is discussed in terms of a motor simulation hypothesis, which assumes that the same mechanisms underlying motor intention aresensitive to social intentions.

TL;DR: A theoretical model of the self processes involved in autobiographic memories is presented and competing hypotheses for the role of visual perspective in autobiographical memory retrieval are proposed.

TL;DR: An analysis and formalization of Damasio's theory on core consciousness is contributed of relevant notions of representation used by Damasio, and specifications of representation relations have been verified and confirmed against the simulation model.

TL;DR: The role of visual imagery is assessed by sampling a large group of synaesthetes and it is found that they report experiencing more vivid mental images than controls, emphasizing the need to control for visual imagery in behavioural and neuroimaging paradigms.

TL;DR: The possibility that explicit evaluative processing is not a necessary precondition for the emergence of the 'self-reference effect' is explored, and responses to self cues may enhance item encoding even in the absence of explicitevaluative instructions is explored.

TL;DR: A Stroop procedure is employed to clarify the contribution of context-sensitive control processes to online performance and demonstrates that this effect does not depend on awareness of the context manipulation, but that it can depend on attention to the predictive context dimension, and on the relative salience of the target and predictive context dimensions.

TL;DR: Two characteristic effects of VET were observed: cross-modal enhancement from seeing the hand was inversely related to overall tactile acuity, and participants near sensory threshold showed significant improvement following synchronous stroking, compared to asynchronous stroking or no stroking at all.

TL;DR: The present study showed that attenuation of sensation occurred both when participants themselves performed a goal-directed action and when they observed experimenter performing the same action, although they clearly reported that the tones were produced by other during action observation and by themselves during their own action.

TL;DR: The experiment established that incongruous objects attract eye fixations earlier than the congruous counterparts, but that this effect is not apparent until the picture has been displayed for several seconds, and a model of scene perception is suggested.

TL;DR: The stability of an implicitly learned motor skill under fatigue conditions that primarily tax a different physiological system (the aerobic system), but which have equally strong evolutionary connotations is examined.

TL;DR: This article brings together four prominent answers to the question of shame into a cohesive whole and argues that they are related to four different dimensions of the emotions.