Conscious awareness of others' actions during observational learning does not benefit motor skill performance
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jul 14;113:103553. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103553. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe conscious awareness of motor success during motor learning has recently been revealed as a learning factor. In these studies, participants had to learn a motor sequence and to detect when they assumed the execution had reached a maximal fluidity. The consciousness groups showed better motor performance during a delayed post-training test than the non-consciousness control groups. Based on the "similar mechanism" hypothesis between observational and physical practice, we tested this beneficial effect of the conscious...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - July 16, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Arnaud Badets Camille Jeunet Fran çoise Dellu-Hagedorn M élissa Ployart Sandra Chanraud Arnaud Boutin Source Type: research

Non-contingent affective outcomes influence judgments of control
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jul 13;113:103552. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103552. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOur main goal in these experiments was to examine whether affective valence plays a role in judgments of control (JoC) in intentional action. To test this, we asked participants to completevariationsofasimple aiming task in which words appeared in place of clicked targets. The affective content of the words was manipulated during the experiments but was not contingent on participants' performance. Throughout the task, participants were periodically asked to judge their JoC.Thus, JoC judgments in this task included contr...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - July 15, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Sophie G Paolizzi Cory A Potts Richard A Carlson Source Type: research

Corrigendum to "Is dream recall underestimated by retrospective measures and enhanced by keeping a logbook? A review" [Conscious. Cogn. 33 (2015) 364-374]
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jul 13:103550. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103550. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37453871 | DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2023.103550 (Source: Consciousness and Cognition)
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - July 15, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: None Denholm Jay Adventure-Heart Paul Delfabbro Michael Proeve Source Type: research

Corrigendum to "Is dream recall underestimated by retrospective measures and enhanced by keeping a logbook? An empirical investigation" [Conscious. Cogn. 42 (2016) 181-203]
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jul 13:103549. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103549. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37453872 | DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2023.103549 (Source: Consciousness and Cognition)
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - July 15, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: None Denholm Jay Adventure-Heart Source Type: research

Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jul 12;113:103548. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103548. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAphantasia is the experience of having little to no visual imagery. We assessed the prevalence rate of aphantasia in 5,010 people from the general population of adults in the United States through self-report and responses to two visual imagery scales. The self-reported prevalence rate of aphantasia was 8.9% in this sample. However, not all participants who reported themselves as aphantasic showed low-imagery profiles on the questionnaire scales, and scale prevalence was much lower (1.5%). Self-reported aphantasic indiv...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - July 14, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Michael J Beran Brielle T James Kristin French Elizabeth L Haseltine Heather M Kleider-Offutt Source Type: research

Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jul 12;113:103548. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103548. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAphantasia is the experience of having little to no visual imagery. We assessed the prevalence rate of aphantasia in 5,010 people from the general population of adults in the United States through self-report and responses to two visual imagery scales. The self-reported prevalence rate of aphantasia was 8.9% in this sample. However, not all participants who reported themselves as aphantasic showed low-imagery profiles on the questionnaire scales, and scale prevalence was much lower (1.5%). Self-reported aphantasic indiv...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - July 14, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Michael J Beran Brielle T James Kristin French Elizabeth L Haseltine Heather M Kleider-Offutt Source Type: research

Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception
This study investigates bistable perception as a function of the presentation side of the ambiguous figures and of participants' sex, to evaluate left-right hemispheric (LH-RH) asymmetries related to consciousness. In two experiments using the divided visual field paradigm, two Rubin's vase-faces figures were projected simultaneously and continuously 180 s long to the left (LVF) and right (RVF; Experiment 1) or to the upper (UVF) and lower (DVF; Experiment 2) visual hemifields of 48 healthy subjects monitored with eye-tracker. Experiment 1 enables stimulus segregation from the LVF to the RH and from the RVF to the LH, wher...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - July 10, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Alfredo Brancucci Sara Ferracci Anita D'Anselmo Valerio Manippa Source Type: research

Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception
This study investigates bistable perception as a function of the presentation side of the ambiguous figures and of participants' sex, to evaluate left-right hemispheric (LH-RH) asymmetries related to consciousness. In two experiments using the divided visual field paradigm, two Rubin's vase-faces figures were projected simultaneously and continuously 180 s long to the left (LVF) and right (RVF; Experiment 1) or to the upper (UVF) and lower (DVF; Experiment 2) visual hemifields of 48 healthy subjects monitored with eye-tracker. Experiment 1 enables stimulus segregation from the LVF to the RH and from the RVF to the LH, wher...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - July 10, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Alfredo Brancucci Sara Ferracci Anita D'Anselmo Valerio Manippa Source Type: research

Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception
This study investigates bistable perception as a function of the presentation side of the ambiguous figures and of participants' sex, to evaluate left-right hemispheric (LH-RH) asymmetries related to consciousness. In two experiments using the divided visual field paradigm, two Rubin's vase-faces figures were projected simultaneously and continuously 180 s long to the left (LVF) and right (RVF; Experiment 1) or to the upper (UVF) and lower (DVF; Experiment 2) visual hemifields of 48 healthy subjects monitored with eye-tracker. Experiment 1 enables stimulus segregation from the LVF to the RH and from the RVF to the LH, wher...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - July 10, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Alfredo Brancucci Sara Ferracci Anita D'Anselmo Valerio Manippa Source Type: research

Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception
This study investigates bistable perception as a function of the presentation side of the ambiguous figures and of participants' sex, to evaluate left-right hemispheric (LH-RH) asymmetries related to consciousness. In two experiments using the divided visual field paradigm, two Rubin's vase-faces figures were projected simultaneously and continuously 180 s long to the left (LVF) and right (RVF; Experiment 1) or to the upper (UVF) and lower (DVF; Experiment 2) visual hemifields of 48 healthy subjects monitored with eye-tracker. Experiment 1 enables stimulus segregation from the LVF to the RH and from the RVF to the LH, wher...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - July 10, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Alfredo Brancucci Sara Ferracci Anita D'Anselmo Valerio Manippa Source Type: research

Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jun 27;113:103547. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103547. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe peripersonal space, that is, the limited space surrounding the body, involves multisensory coding and representation of the self in space. Previous studies have shown that peripersonal space representation and the visual perspective on the environment can be dramatically altered when neurotypical individuals self-identify with a distant avatar (i.e., in virtual reality) or during clinical conditions (i.e., out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, depersonalization). Despite its role in many cognitive/social functions, t...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - June 30, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Burak Erdeniz Ege Tekg ün Bigna Lenggenhager Christophe Lopez Source Type: research

Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jun 27;113:103547. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103547. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe peripersonal space, that is, the limited space surrounding the body, involves multisensory coding and representation of the self in space. Previous studies have shown that peripersonal space representation and the visual perspective on the environment can be dramatically altered when neurotypical individuals self-identify with a distant avatar (i.e., in virtual reality) or during clinical conditions (i.e., out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, depersonalization). Despite its role in many cognitive/social functions, t...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - June 30, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Burak Erdeniz Ege Tekg ün Bigna Lenggenhager Christophe Lopez Source Type: research

Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jun 27;113:103547. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103547. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe peripersonal space, that is, the limited space surrounding the body, involves multisensory coding and representation of the self in space. Previous studies have shown that peripersonal space representation and the visual perspective on the environment can be dramatically altered when neurotypical individuals self-identify with a distant avatar (i.e., in virtual reality) or during clinical conditions (i.e., out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, depersonalization). Despite its role in many cognitive/social functions, t...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - June 30, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Burak Erdeniz Ege Tekg ün Bigna Lenggenhager Christophe Lopez Source Type: research

Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jun 27;113:103547. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103547. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe peripersonal space, that is, the limited space surrounding the body, involves multisensory coding and representation of the self in space. Previous studies have shown that peripersonal space representation and the visual perspective on the environment can be dramatically altered when neurotypical individuals self-identify with a distant avatar (i.e., in virtual reality) or during clinical conditions (i.e., out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, depersonalization). Despite its role in many cognitive/social functions, t...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - June 30, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Burak Erdeniz Ege Tekg ün Bigna Lenggenhager Christophe Lopez Source Type: research

Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams
Conscious Cogn. 2023 Jun 27;113:103547. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103547. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe peripersonal space, that is, the limited space surrounding the body, involves multisensory coding and representation of the self in space. Previous studies have shown that peripersonal space representation and the visual perspective on the environment can be dramatically altered when neurotypical individuals self-identify with a distant avatar (i.e., in virtual reality) or during clinical conditions (i.e., out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, depersonalization). Despite its role in many cognitive/social functions, t...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - June 30, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Burak Erdeniz Ege Tekg ün Bigna Lenggenhager Christophe Lopez Source Type: research