Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 2020"

TL;DR: The result corroborates VAN as the earliest and most consistent signature of visual phenomenal consciousness, and casts further doubt on LP as an ERP correlate of phenomenal consciousness.

TL;DR: A neurophenomenological model of minimal self-disturbance in schizophrenia spectrum disorders may need to be expanded from source monitoring deficits to encompass other relevant constructs such as temporal processing, intermodal/multisensory integration, and hierarchical predictive processing.

TL;DR: Results suggest that mindfulness induction improves cognitive performance in tasks involving complex higher-order functions and generally presented many methodological flaws.

TL;DR: It is suggested that nearly any sensory stimuli has potential for modulating experience in sleep, and a collection of relevant VR technologies, including devices engineered to stimulate haptic, temperature, vestibular, olfactory, and auditory sensations are outlined.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the boundaries of selves are fluid, shifting across biological, artifactual, and sociocultural structures, and the notions of minimal self, person, and narrative self are distinguished.

TL;DR: The origins of the cognitive neuropsychiatric approach are traced, a tentative framework to overcome challenges and suggest directions for future research are proposed.

TL;DR: Findings demonstrate how identity-relevance moderates self-prioritization, as evidence was extracted more rapidly from stimuli paired with consequential compared to inconsequential identity-related components.

TL;DR: The results of the study strengthen the case for a direct causative relationship between three phenomenological aspects of Selfhood and related to them three modules of the brain SRN.

TL;DR: It is suggested that embodiment of a body seen from a first-person perspective is felt by default, and that embodiment can then be lost in the face of contradictory cues.

TL;DR: Resting-state fMRI scans indicated unique patterns of functional connectivity associated with sensitivity to each ASMR trigger category, suggesting that ASMR may involve atypical attentional processing.

TL;DR: A novel protocol using a new wearable electronic device, Dormio, to automatically generate serial auditory dream incubations at sleep onset, wherein targeted information is repeatedly presented during the hypnagogic period, enabling direct incorporation of this information into dream content, a process the authors call targeted dream incubation (TDI).

TL;DR: The findings of this study support the emerging view that unconscious processing is rather limited in scope.

TL;DR: There is some evidence that (without an experimental warning), people high on NFC may be more susceptible to the illusory truth effect, and future research may fruitfully test whether the influence of NFC and other individual difference measures depends on whether people are making immediate or delayed truth judgments.

TL;DR: A verbalized thought protocol is used to investigate "clump-and-jump" structure in SST-clusters of related thoughts about a topic followed by a jump to a new topic, in a repeating pattern, and finds evidence that jumps involve a discontinuous shift.

TL;DR: A new 20-item scale is developed to validate the Near-Death Experience Content (NDE-C) scale that quantifies NDEs in a more complete way and to reassess the psychometric properties of the NDE scale developed by Greyson (1983).

TL;DR: The offloading bias was significantly reduced (but not eliminated) in the rewarded group, suggesting that a preference to avoid cognitive effort influences cognitive offloading.

TL;DR: Increased auditory perceptual biases were significantly associated with increased state and trait anomalous self-experiences, in particular alienation from surroundings and emotional numbing and no significant associations were found between metacognitive efficiency and anomalous experiences.

TL;DR: The physical location force is investigated, in which four cards are placed face-down on the table in a line, after which participants are asked to push out one card, showing that participants' behaviour was heavily biased towards choosing the third card, but were oblivious to this bias.

TL;DR: The results show that previous findings of impairments in working memory due to smartphone presence do not generalize to other domains of memory capacity.

TL;DR: Varied phenomenology of writers’ experiences of characters’ voices suggests non-inferential theory of mind for experiences of non-actual agents.

TL;DR: These neuroimaging investigations of MS position us to better assess whether LoC has a role to play in a mature science of consciousness, as well as provide some evidence to suggest that not only can self and consciousness dissociate, MS might be a necessary precondition for conscious experience.

TL;DR: Transcranial direct and alternating current stimulation was associated with signal-verified and self-rated lucid dreams-but so was the sham procedure, suggesting Situational factors may be crucial to inducing self-awareness during sleep.

TL;DR: This argument is unraveled mathematically and it is proved that the premises of the argument imply a much stronger result according to which the observed problem holds for almost all theories of consciousness.

TL;DR: This study addresses an alternative explanatory mechanism for the emergence of temporal binding by excluding the role of motor action and finds a robust temporal repulsion effect, indicating that instead of being attracted to each other, the auditory stimuli were shifted away from each other in temporal perception.

TL;DR: This study examined whether high absorbers indeed act more automatically with decreased meta-consciousness for, and therefore poor memory of, their own actions, along with reduced sense of agency (SoA), and hypothesized that trait DA was correlated with impaired autobiographical memory for self-generated writing.

TL;DR: Flying dreams were changed qualitatively, exhibiting higher levels of Lucid-control and emotional intensity, after VR exposure, consistent with a new vection-based explanation of dream-flying and may facilitate development of dream flight-induction technologies.

TL;DR: Investigation of whether the experience of lucidity enhances positive waking mood, and whether lucidity is associated with dream emotional content and subjective sleep quality indicated that higher lucidity was associated with more positive dream content and elevated positive waking Mood the next day.

TL;DR: It is possible however that anxiety and co-occurring risk aversion drive increased delusion-proneness and information-gathering, potentially accounting for the positive relationship between PDI and DTD.

TL;DR: It is found that compatibility between actions and object movements, and to a lesser extent predictability of object movements), affected reported agency while only compatibility affected reported ownership.