Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 2013"

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that embodiment of light-skinned participants in adark-skinned VB significantly reduced implicit racial bias against dark-skinned people, in contrast to embodiment in light- skinned, purple-skinned or with no VB.

TL;DR: The development of metacognition between 11 and 41 years is investigated and shows a prolonged developmental trajectory during adolescence.

TL;DR: While sadness tended to precede mind-wandering, mind-Wandering itself was not associated with later mood and only predicted feeling worse if its content was negative, suggesting mind- wandering is not inherently detrimental to well-being.

TL;DR: A preliminary synthesis of the data on bodily self-consciousness and its neural correlates is provided, suggesting that at least two of these components-body ownership and self-location-are implemented in rather distinct neural substrates, located in the premotor cortex and in the temporo-parietal junction.

TL;DR: The greater the amount of time spent engaged in TUT the longer the individual was prepared to wait for an economic reward, and this data indicate that self-generated thought engages processes associated with the successful management of long-term goals.

TL;DR: While all factors are involved in dream consciousness, realism and negative emotion do not differentiate between lucid and non-lucid dreams, suggesting that lucid insight is separable from both bizarreness in dreams and a change in the subjectively experienced realism of the dream.

TL;DR: It is argued that answering the question will require researchers to be more precise in terms of defining what exactly automaticity entails, and a number of suggestions for future research are made that might help to determine just how automatic crossmodal correspondences really are.

TL;DR: This article examined similarities and differences between anomalous self-experiences common in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, as listed in the EASE (Examination of Anomalous Self Experiences), and those described in published accounts of severe depersonalization.

TL;DR: Based on studies of inner experience using Descriptive Experience Sampling (a qualitative method designed to produce high fidelity descriptions of randomly selected pristine inner experience), an initial phenomenology of inner speaking is advanced.

TL;DR: This paper found that attention to narrative aspects of self, previously regarded as relying on higher-order processes, has an effect similar to self-face stimuli in improving interoceptive awareness.

TL;DR: The meditation intervention reduced tactile misperception and increased sensitivity during the somatic signal detection task, and raises the possibility that body-scan meditation could reduce the misper perception of physical symptoms in individuals with medically unexplained symptoms.

TL;DR: Mindfulness meditation led to a relative overestimation of durations within an internal clock framework, which has wider implications for the use of mindfulness as an everyday practice and a basis for clinical treatment.

TL;DR: This experiment confirms Nisbett and Wilson's findings that the authors are usually unaware of their decision processes, but goes further by showing that they can access them through specific mental acts.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the negative emotional impact of future-related concerns is an important factor to be taken into consideration for the subsequent occurrence of mind-wandering episodes, which might in turn be involved in the maintenance of negative affect over time.

TL;DR: The effect of agency cues on the delays at which the sense of agency varied were increased with premotor signals but were decreased with contextual information, which favour a model of integration of internal and external agency cues over time.

TL;DR: Some preliminary support for the involvement of the DLPFC in lucid dreaming is indicated, but further research, controlling for indirect effects of stimulation and including other brain regions, is needed.

TL;DR: A positivity bias was found for both past and future MTT, in that fewer negative events were reported than positive or neutral ones, indicating a reducedPositivity bias in individuals with a general tendency to experience negative affect.

TL;DR: In this paper, a biological motion perception task was used to study the relationship between belief in supernatural agents and illusory agency detection, and it was found that paranormal believers had a lower perceptual sensitivity than skeptics, which was due to a response bias to ‘yes' for stimuli in which no agent was present.

TL;DR: Both SOARS scores were significantly related to the derived factors of Woody, Barnier, and McConkey's (2005) 4-factor model of hypnotisability, which clarifies conceptual confusion around agentive action and provides empirical support for a multifactorial account of sense of agency.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that attention-allocation strategies of prospective memory rely on metacognitive expectations about prospective-memory task demands, and that attentional monitoring is only functional for prospective memory to the extent to which anticipated task demands reflect objective task demands.

TL;DR: Although future events were more positive than past events, only valence ratings for self and close friend showed a linear increase in positivity from distant past to future, providing evidence for the role of personal goals in imagining the future.

TL;DR: The present research provides new insights into individual differences in musical imagery, and it supports the emerging view that such experiences are common, positive, and more voluntary than previously recognized.

TL;DR: It is found that agency judgments were moderated by working memory load, with lower agency ratings being observed in the high load condition, suggesting that the sense of agency is dependent on the availability of conscious cognitive resources.

TL;DR: The results indicate that PDW biases awareness ratings by enhancing first-order accuracy of emotion perception, and this effect was possibly a result of higher motivation induced by monetary incentives.

TL;DR: Factorially varied subliminal priming of action selection and expectation of action outcomes affectedSense of agency, and there was also a significant interaction between incompatible action priming and compatible actionPriming.

TL;DR: Investigating whether training participants to focus their attention on the here-and-now (i.e., focused attention) reduces distress from an ostracism experience found that focused attention aided in recovery by preventing participants from reliving the ostracisms experience after it concludes.

TL;DR: A hierarchical model of aesthetic perception of human movement with distinct processing levels for body postures, movements and choreographic structure is proposed and it is found that posture, movement, and choreography structure all influenced aesthetic ratings.

TL;DR: This essay will draw on neuroscientific, psychological, and philosophical literature in order to investigate the relationships between mirror neurons and empathy as to intention understanding, and conclude that both empirical evidence and philosophical analysis can jointly contribute to the clarification of the concept of empathy.

TL;DR: It is suggested that when imagining future events, working memory contributes to the construction of a single, coherent, future event depiction, but not to the retrieval or elaboration of event details.

TL;DR: The results showed that category-selective attention modulated unconscious face/tool processing in the middle occipital gyrus (MOG), and interestingly, MOG effects were of opposed direction for face and tool processes.