The self and our perception of its synchrony - Beyond internal and external cognition
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 14;116:103600. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103600. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe self is the core of our mental life which connects one's inner mental life with the external perception. Since synchrony is a key feature of the biological world and its various species, what role does it play for humans? We conducted a large-scale psychological study (n = 1072) combining newly developed visual analogue scales (VAS) for the perception of synchrony and internal and external cognition complemented by several psychological questionnaires. Overall, our findings showed close connection of the perception ...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Andrea Scalabrini Michelangelo De Amicis Agostino Brugnera Marco Cavicchioli Yasir Çatal Kaan Keskin Javier Gomez Pilar Jianfeng Zhang Bella Osipova Angelo Compare Andrea Greco Francesco Benedetti Clara Mucci Georg Northoff Source Type: research
Young children's subjective and objective thresholds and emergent processes of visual consciousness using a backward masking task
This study examined young children's and adults' subjective awareness and objective discrimination for thresholds and emergent processes of visual consciousness in two experiments. In Experiment 1, 20 5-6-year-olds and 20 adults attempted a figure discrimination task using a square or a diamond as the target stimulus and responded, using a two-point scale, to a question on subjective awareness of the target stimulus with stimulus onset asynchronies (SOA) from 20 to 260 ms. In Experiment 2, 31 5-6-year-olds and 16 adults attempted the task and responded, using a four-point scale, to a question on subjective awareness with S...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Ryoichi Watanabe Yusuke Moriguchi Source Type: research
The role of consciousness in threat extinction learning
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 15;116:103599. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103599. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExtinction learning is regarded as a core mechanism underlying exposure therapy. The extent to which learned threats can be extinguished without conscious awareness is a controversial and on-going debate. We investigated whether implicit vs. explicit exposure to a threatened stimulus can modulate defence responses measured using pupillometry. Healthy participants underwent a threat conditioning paradigm in which one of the conditioned stimuli (CS) was perceptually suppressed using continuous flash suppression (CFS). Par...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Charlene L M Lam Tom J Barry Jenny Yiend Tatia M C Lee Source Type: research
The moment of awareness influences the content of awareness in orientation repulsion
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 15;116:103604. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103604. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThrough the neurally evolving process of dynamic contextual modulation of perceptual contents, it remains unclear how the content of awareness is determined. Here we quantified the visual illusion of orientation repulsion, wherein the target appears tilted against the surrounding's orientation, and examined whether its extent changed when the target awareness was quickened by a preceding flanker. Independently of spatial cueing, repulsion was reduced when the flanker preceded the target by 100 ms compared with when they...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Tomoya Nakamura Ikuya Murakami Source Type: research
The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 15;116:103603. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103603. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe possibility of flexibly retrieving our memories using a first-person or a third-person perspective (1PP or 3PP) has been extensively investigated in episodic memory research. Here, we used a Virtual Reality-based paradigm to manipulate the visual perspective used during the encoding stage to investigate age-related differences in the formation of memories experienced from 1PP vs. 3PP. 32 young adults and 32 seniors participated in the study. Participants navigated through two virtual cities to encode complex real-li...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Silvia Serino Melanie Bieler-Aeschlimann Andrea Brioschi Guevara Jean-Francois D émonet Andrea Serino Source Type: research
The self and our perception of its synchrony - Beyond internal and external cognition
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 14;116:103600. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103600. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe self is the core of our mental life which connects one's inner mental life with the external perception. Since synchrony is a key feature of the biological world and its various species, what role does it play for humans? We conducted a large-scale psychological study (n = 1072) combining newly developed visual analogue scales (VAS) for the perception of synchrony and internal and external cognition complemented by several psychological questionnaires. Overall, our findings showed close connection of the perception ...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Andrea Scalabrini Michelangelo De Amicis Agostino Brugnera Marco Cavicchioli Yasir Çatal Kaan Keskin Javier Gomez Pilar Jianfeng Zhang Bella Osipova Angelo Compare Andrea Greco Francesco Benedetti Clara Mucci Georg Northoff Source Type: research
Young children's subjective and objective thresholds and emergent processes of visual consciousness using a backward masking task
This study examined young children's and adults' subjective awareness and objective discrimination for thresholds and emergent processes of visual consciousness in two experiments. In Experiment 1, 20 5-6-year-olds and 20 adults attempted a figure discrimination task using a square or a diamond as the target stimulus and responded, using a two-point scale, to a question on subjective awareness of the target stimulus with stimulus onset asynchronies (SOA) from 20 to 260 ms. In Experiment 2, 31 5-6-year-olds and 16 adults attempted the task and responded, using a four-point scale, to a question on subjective awareness with S...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Ryoichi Watanabe Yusuke Moriguchi Source Type: research
The role of consciousness in threat extinction learning
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 15;116:103599. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103599. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExtinction learning is regarded as a core mechanism underlying exposure therapy. The extent to which learned threats can be extinguished without conscious awareness is a controversial and on-going debate. We investigated whether implicit vs. explicit exposure to a threatened stimulus can modulate defence responses measured using pupillometry. Healthy participants underwent a threat conditioning paradigm in which one of the conditioned stimuli (CS) was perceptually suppressed using continuous flash suppression (CFS). Par...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Charlene L M Lam Tom J Barry Jenny Yiend Tatia M C Lee Source Type: research
The moment of awareness influences the content of awareness in orientation repulsion
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 15;116:103604. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103604. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThrough the neurally evolving process of dynamic contextual modulation of perceptual contents, it remains unclear how the content of awareness is determined. Here we quantified the visual illusion of orientation repulsion, wherein the target appears tilted against the surrounding's orientation, and examined whether its extent changed when the target awareness was quickened by a preceding flanker. Independently of spatial cueing, repulsion was reduced when the flanker preceded the target by 100 ms compared with when they...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Tomoya Nakamura Ikuya Murakami Source Type: research
The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 15;116:103603. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103603. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe possibility of flexibly retrieving our memories using a first-person or a third-person perspective (1PP or 3PP) has been extensively investigated in episodic memory research. Here, we used a Virtual Reality-based paradigm to manipulate the visual perspective used during the encoding stage to investigate age-related differences in the formation of memories experienced from 1PP vs. 3PP. 32 young adults and 32 seniors participated in the study. Participants navigated through two virtual cities to encode complex real-li...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Silvia Serino Melanie Bieler-Aeschlimann Andrea Brioschi Guevara Jean-Francois D émonet Andrea Serino Source Type: research
The self and our perception of its synchrony - Beyond internal and external cognition
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 14;116:103600. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103600. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe self is the core of our mental life which connects one's inner mental life with the external perception. Since synchrony is a key feature of the biological world and its various species, what role does it play for humans? We conducted a large-scale psychological study (n = 1072) combining newly developed visual analogue scales (VAS) for the perception of synchrony and internal and external cognition complemented by several psychological questionnaires. Overall, our findings showed close connection of the perception ...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Andrea Scalabrini Michelangelo De Amicis Agostino Brugnera Marco Cavicchioli Yasir Çatal Kaan Keskin Javier Gomez Pilar Jianfeng Zhang Bella Osipova Angelo Compare Andrea Greco Francesco Benedetti Clara Mucci Georg Northoff Source Type: research
Young children's subjective and objective thresholds and emergent processes of visual consciousness using a backward masking task
This study examined young children's and adults' subjective awareness and objective discrimination for thresholds and emergent processes of visual consciousness in two experiments. In Experiment 1, 20 5-6-year-olds and 20 adults attempted a figure discrimination task using a square or a diamond as the target stimulus and responded, using a two-point scale, to a question on subjective awareness of the target stimulus with stimulus onset asynchronies (SOA) from 20 to 260 ms. In Experiment 2, 31 5-6-year-olds and 16 adults attempted the task and responded, using a four-point scale, to a question on subjective awareness with S...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Ryoichi Watanabe Yusuke Moriguchi Source Type: research
The role of consciousness in threat extinction learning
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 15;116:103599. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103599. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExtinction learning is regarded as a core mechanism underlying exposure therapy. The extent to which learned threats can be extinguished without conscious awareness is a controversial and on-going debate. We investigated whether implicit vs. explicit exposure to a threatened stimulus can modulate defence responses measured using pupillometry. Healthy participants underwent a threat conditioning paradigm in which one of the conditioned stimuli (CS) was perceptually suppressed using continuous flash suppression (CFS). Par...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Charlene L M Lam Tom J Barry Jenny Yiend Tatia M C Lee Source Type: research
The moment of awareness influences the content of awareness in orientation repulsion
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 15;116:103604. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103604. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThrough the neurally evolving process of dynamic contextual modulation of perceptual contents, it remains unclear how the content of awareness is determined. Here we quantified the visual illusion of orientation repulsion, wherein the target appears tilted against the surrounding's orientation, and examined whether its extent changed when the target awareness was quickened by a preceding flanker. Independently of spatial cueing, repulsion was reduced when the flanker preceded the target by 100 ms compared with when they...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Tomoya Nakamura Ikuya Murakami Source Type: research
The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Nov 15;116:103603. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103603. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe possibility of flexibly retrieving our memories using a first-person or a third-person perspective (1PP or 3PP) has been extensively investigated in episodic memory research. Here, we used a Virtual Reality-based paradigm to manipulate the visual perspective used during the encoding stage to investigate age-related differences in the formation of memories experienced from 1PP vs. 3PP. 32 young adults and 32 seniors participated in the study. Participants navigated through two virtual cities to encode complex real-li...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - November 17, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Silvia Serino Melanie Bieler-Aeschlimann Andrea Brioschi Guevara Jean-Francois D émonet Andrea Serino Source Type: research
