Showing papers in "Consciousness and Cognition in 2022"

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the prevalence of aphantasia in the general population, while overcoming limitations of previous research (e.g., recruitment biases) by screening a cohort of undergraduate students using the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (Marks, 1973).

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors consider the phenomenology of depersonalisation disorder in relation to predictive processing and its associated pathophysiology, and establish a few mechanistic tenets of predictive processing that are necessary to talk about phenomenal transparency, mental action and self as subject.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate the psychological relationship of self with thought modes (rumination, reflection) and mind-wandering dynamics (spontaneous, deliberate), as well as with depressive symptomatology.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the psychological relationship of self with thought modes (rumination, reflection) and mind-wandering dynamics (spontaneous, deliberate), as well as with depressive symptomatology.

TL;DR: This paper examined the electrophysiological activity of task-irrelevant emotional faces under different awareness conditions and found that only target lines elicited an N2-posterior-contralateral (N2pc), indexing spatial attention shifting, in the supraliminal condition.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the effect of dual tasking on the vigilance decrement phenomenon and found that task load significantly modulated the executive but not the arousal vigilance decrements, while the largest increase in mental fatigue was observed in the single executive vigilance task condition.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors provide an overview of the fMRI studies of SoA and attempt to provide meaningful categories whereby the heterogeneous findings may be classified, based on a separation of the experimental paradigms (Feedback Manipulations of ongoing movements, Action-Effect, and Sensory Attenuation) and type of report employed.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors developed and administered a visuomotor tracking task in which participants were instructed to track the path of a stimulus on a screen with a mouse while responding to rare targets.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the features of hotspots in trauma-exposed individuals (n = 21) within 72 hours post-trauma, using linguistic analysis and qualitative coding, and found that most hotspots contained sensory features (97%) and motion (59%).

TL;DR: This article investigated the role of involuntary retrieval in music-evoked autobiographical memories and found that music evokes more episodic rich memories than those evoked by other sensory cues, regardless of intentionality, and that the difference in episodic richness between cue types seems at least partially to depend on other stimulus features.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compare two common paradigms within the same participants: interval estimation and the Libet clock paradigm, and they hypothesized that the two measures correlated positively.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the drivers of the MA, WM and math performance edges, and the contribution of each node to the network, and provided a strong and reliable model showing the direct effects of math anxiety on math performance.

TL;DR: In this article , the amplitude of low-frequency brain oscillations has emerged as a reliable predictor of trial-to-trial variability in perceptual decisions based on simple, low-level stimuli.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that episodic thoughts of both the past and the future rarely occur in either N2 or REM sleep, while episodic thought during wakefulness exhibit a strong prospective bias and frequently involve autobiographical planning.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that episodic thoughts during wakefulness exhibit a strong prospective bias and frequently involve autobiographical planning, while episodic thought during sleep rarely occur in either N2 or REM sleep.

TL;DR: This paper found that ASMR-responders had more frequent and intense vicarious touch experiences, as well as a strikingly higher incidence of mirror-touch synaesthesia (MTS) than nonresponders.

TL;DR: The authors argue that some commonly acknowledged theories do not at all provide us with an account of subjective experience as they are built on false assumptions and propose illusionism as the only option for a scientific investigation of consciousness and that even if panpsychism turn out to be holding the seemingly missing piece of the puzzle, the path to them must go through Illusionism.

TL;DR: In this paper , the relationship between sleep and spontaneous cognition was examined across different definitions and measurements of sleep outcomes, and a diversity of methodologies, and the results indicated that self-reported disturbed sleep was associated with a tendency to engage in disruptive mind wandering and daydreaming.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the relationship between intentional binding and eight factors of pro-survival behavioral capacity (as defined by the power-to-live questionnaire) and found that the level of intentional binding measured using the Libet clock method was significantly correlated with, and contributed to, the self-transcendence factor.

TL;DR: The authors argue that some commonly acknowledged theories do not at all provide us with an account of subjective experience as they are built on false assumptions and propose illusionism as the only option for a scientific investigation of consciousness and that even if panpsychism turn out to be holding the seemingly missing piece of the puzzle, the path to them must go through Illusionism.

TL;DR: The authors found that participants who had received fewer thought probes mind wandered less during an operation span task, supporting their hypothesis, while participants with fewer probes mind-w wandered more during a video lecture.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used the amygdala Electrical Fingerprint (amyg-EFP) to investigate whether participants could accurately estimate their own brain activation, and found that higher rating accuracy also predicted higher subjective confidence in the rating.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the relationship between self-reported spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies and task-switching performance in young adults and found a link between mind wandering and cognitive flexibility, thus providing initial evidence in favor of switching in mind wandering.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used an fMRI synchronization-based approach to examine responses to a narrative during wakefulness and sleep, and found that the auditory network recruitment was observed in both non-REM and REM sleep, demonstrating preservation of low-level auditory processing.

TL;DR: In this article , a model-based defence of the partial functional/informational segregation of cognition in the context of the predictive architecture is presented, arguing that the model-relativeness of modularity does not need to undermine its tenability.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors combined predictive processing models of visual perception and affective states to investigate influences of affective valence on perceptual filling-in in extrafoveal vision.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors discuss how both fields can establish an epistemic loop: Redesigning synthetic systems with inspiration from the Bayesian brain-framework could make networks more flexible and useful for human-machine interaction.

TL;DR: This paper found that the affordances task involves conflicts at both the task level and the level of response, and can be used as a supplementary, non-linguistic measure of task conflict and the activation of task control.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the relationship between attentional disengagement and blink duration and found that less engaging tasks yielded longer blink durations, suggesting a link between blinking and mind wandering.

TL;DR: This paper found that poorer sleep quality, more daytime-sleepiness, and more insomnia symptoms consistently predicted higher tendency to engage in disruptive spontaneous thoughts, independently of trait negative affect, age and gender.