Intentional binding - Is it just causal binding? A replication study of Suzuki et al. (2019)
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb 13;119:103665. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103665. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIntentional actions produce a temporal compression between the action and its outcome, known as intentional binding. However, Suzuki et al. (2019) recently showed that temporal compression can be observed without intentional actions. However, their results show a clear regression to the mean, which might have confounded the estimates of temporal intervals. To control these effects, we presented temporal intervals block-wise. Indeed, we found systematically greater compression for active than passive trials, in contrast ...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - February 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Michael Wiesing Eckart Zimmermann Source Type: research
Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundaries
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb 11;119:103655. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103655. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMystical experience, non-dual awareness, selflessness, self-transcendent experience, and ego-dissolution have become increasingly prominent constructs in meditation and psychedelic research. However, these constructs and their measures tend to be highly overlapping, imprecise, and poorly integrated with similar pathological experiences. The present study seeks to clarify the common factors involved in the characteristics of these experiences using precise distinctions across an array of experience contexts (including me...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - February 12, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Nicholas K Canby Jared Lindahl Willoughby B Britton James V C órdova Source Type: research
Viral simulations in dreams: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on threatening dream content in a Finnish sample of diary dreams
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb 8;119:103651. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103651. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevious research indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected dreaming negatively. We compared 1132 dreams collected with prospective two-week dream diary during the pandemic to 166 dreams collected before the pandemic. We hypothesized that the pandemic would increase the number of threatening events, threats related to diseases, and the severity of threats. We also hypothesized that dreams that include direct references to the pandemic will include more threatening events, more disease-related threats, and more se...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - February 9, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Ville Loukola Jarno Tuominen Santeri Kirsil ä Annimaaria Kyyhkynen Maron Lahdenper ä Lilja Parkkali Emilia Ranta Eveliina Malinen Sanni Vanhanen Katariina V älimaa Henri Olkoniemi Antti Revonsuo Katja Valli Source Type: research
Goal characteristics predict the occurrence of goal-related events through belief in future occurrence
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb 6;119:103649. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103649. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhile previous studies have highlighted the role of episodic future thinking in goal pursuit, the underlying cognitive mechanisms remain unexplored. Episodic future thinking may promote goal pursuit by shaping the feeling that imagined events will (or will not) happen in the future - referred to as belief in future occurrence. We investigated whether goal self-concordance (Experiment 1) and other goal characteristics identified as influential in goal pursuit (Experiment 2) modulate belief in the future occurrence of goal...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - February 7, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Claudia Garcia Jimenez Arnaud D'Argembeau Source Type: research
Proactive control: Endogenous cueing effects in a two-target attentional blink task
This study examined proactive control in a two-target task using an endogenous cueing method. Participants identified two target words (T1 then T2) presented in rapid succession. T1 was presented alone or interleaved with a distractor word. In Experiment 1, informative pre-cues that signalled T1 selection difficulty were randomly intermixed with uninformative pre-cues. The results revealed a cueing effect for both T1 and T2, with better performance for informative cues than for uninformative cues. In Experiment 2, informative and uninformative cues were mixed for one group, and blocked for another group. In the mixed cue g...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - February 3, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: S Montakhaby Nodeh E MacLellan B Milliken Source Type: research
When you look at your past: Eye movement during autobiographical retrieval
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb;118:103652. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103652. Epub 2024 Feb 1.ABSTRACTUntil recently, little was known about whether or how autobiographical memory (i.e., memory of personal information) activates eye movement. This issue is now being addressed by several studies demonstrating not only how autobiographical memory activates eye movement, but also how eye movement influences the characteristics of autobiographical retrieval. This paper summarizes this research and presents a hypothesis according to which fixations and saccades during autobiographical retrieval mirror the construction of the visual i...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - February 1, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Mohamad El Haj Source Type: research
Induced awareness of synesthetic sensations in synesthetically predisposed "Borderline Non-synesthetes"
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb;118:103650. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103650. Epub 2024 Jan 26.ABSTRACTA long-standing issue concerning synesthesia is whether the trait is continuous or discontinuous with ordinary perception. Here, we found that a substantial proportion of non-synesthetes (>10 % out of >200 unselected participants) spontaneously became aware of their synesthesia by participating in an online survey that forced them to select colors for stimuli that evoke color sensations in synesthetes. Notably, the test-retest consistencies of color sensation in these non-synesthetes were comparable to those in self-claim...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - January 27, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Kosuke Itoh Source Type: research
A confidence framing effect: Flexible use of evidence in metacognitive monitoring
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb;118:103636. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103636. Epub 2024 Jan 19.ABSTRACTHuman behavior is flexibly regulated by specific goals of cognitive tasks. One notable example is goal-directed modulation of metacognitive behavior, where logically equivalent decision-making problems can yield different patterns of introspective confidence depending on the frame in which they are presented. While this observation highlights the important heuristic nature of metacognitive monitoring, computational mechanisms underlying this phenomenon remain elusive. We confirmed the confidence framing effect in two-alternativ...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - January 20, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Yosuke Sakamoto Kiyofumi Miyoshi Source Type: research
Low working memory reduces the use of mental contrasting
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb;118:103644. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103644. Epub 2024 Jan 19.ABSTRACTMentally contrasting a desired future with reality is a self-regulation strategy that helps people effectively pursue important personal wishes. People with higher self-regulation skills are more likely to spontaneously use mental contrasting. Because one central cognitive function underlying self-regulation is working memory capacity, we investigated whether people with low rather than high working memory capacity are less likely to spontaneously use mental contrasting. Study 1 provided correlational evidence that participants...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - January 20, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: A Timur Sevincer Anne Schr öder Alexander Plakides Nils Edler Gabriele Oettingen Source Type: research
The role of visual imagery in story reading: Evidence from aphantasia
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb;118:103645. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103645. Epub 2024 Jan 18.ABSTRACTAphantasia is a condition in which people are unable to experience visual imagery. Since visual imagery is thought to be key to language processing, we hypothesized the experience of a story would differ between individuals with aphantasia and controls. Forty-seven individuals with aphantasia were compared to fifty-one matched controls on their experience of reading a short story and their general reading habits. Aphantasics were less likely to be engaged with, interested in, and absorbed in the story, and experienced reduced e...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - January 19, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Laura J Speed Lynn S Eekhof Marloes Mak Source Type: research
What is it like to do a visuo-spatial working memory task: A qualitative phenomenological study of the visual span task
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb;118:103628. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103628. Epub 2024 Jan 16.ABSTRACTWorking memory is typically measured with specifically designed psychological tasks. When evaluating the validity of working memory tasks, we commonly focus on the reliability of the outcome measurements. Only rarely do we focus on how participants experience these tasks. Accounting for lived experience of working memory task may help us better understand variability in working memory performance and conscious experience in general. We replicated recently established protocols for the phenomenological investigation of working m...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - January 17, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Ale š Oblak Oskar Dragan Anka Slana Ozimi č Urban Korde š Nina Purg Jurij Bon Grega Repov š Source Type: research
Suppressing memory associations impacts decision-making preference: Evidence from the think/no-think paradigm
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb;118:103643. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103643. Epub 2024 Jan 14.ABSTRACTRecent research has suggested that episodic memory can guide our decision-making. Forgetting is one essential characteristic of memory. If certain memories are suppressed to be forgotten, decisions that rely on such memories should be impacted. So far, little research has examined whether suppression of episodic memory would impact decision-making. In the current pre-registered study, the effect of memory suppression on subsequent reinforcement decision-making was examined by combining the Think/No-think paradigm and a reinforc...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - January 15, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Chen Lu Yuetong Lu Jianqin Wang Source Type: research
Distinctive features of experiential time: Duration, speed and event density
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb;118:103635. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103635. Epub 2024 Jan 13.ABSTRACTWilliam James's use of "time in passing" and "stream of thoughts" may be two sides of the same coin that emerge from the brain segmenting the continuous flow of information into discrete events. Herein, we investigated how the density of events affects two temporal experiences: the felt duration and speed of time. Using a temporal bisection task, participants classified seconds-long videos of naturalistic scenes as short or long (duration), or slow or fast (passage of time). Videos contained a varying number and type of events....
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - January 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Marianna Lamprou-Kokolaki Yvan N édélec Simon Lhuillier Virginie van Wassenhove Source Type: research
The state-trait sense of self inventory: A psychometric study of self-experience and its relation to psychosis-like manifestations
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb;118:103634. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103634. Epub 2024 Jan 11.ABSTRACTThe sense of self is a fundamental construct in the study of the mind, yet its psychological nature remains elusive. We introduce a novel 25-item inventory to investigate selfhood both as an enduring trait and a temporary state. We hypothesized two foundational aspects of the self: identity (related to self-referencing and continuity over time) and agency (the perception of controlling own's actions and thoughts). Results from two population studies highlight a singular self-trait factor combining agency and identity. In contra...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - January 12, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Simone Di Plinio Simone Arn ò Sjoerd J H Ebisch Source Type: research
Testing the modulation of self-related automatic and others-related controlled processing by chronotype and time-of-day
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Feb;118:103633. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103633. Epub 2024 Jan 9.ABSTRACTWe assessed whether self-related automatic and others-related controlled processes are modulated by chronotype and time-of-day. Here, a shape-label matching task composed of three geometrical shapes arbitrarily associated with you, friend, and stranger was used. Twenty Morning-types, and twenty Evening-types performed the task at the optimal and non-optimal times of day (i.e., 8 AM, or 8:30 PM). Morning-types did not exhibit noticeable synchrony effects, thus proving the better adaptation of these participants to non-optimal mom...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - January 10, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Luc ía B Palmero V íctor Martínez-Pérez Miriam Tortajada Guillermo Campoy Luis J Fuentes Source Type: research
