Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Apr 12;121:103684. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103684. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo what degree human cognition is influenced by subliminal stimuli is a controversial empirical question. One striking example was reported by Linser and Goschke (2007): participants overestimated how much control they had over objectively uncontrollable stimuli when masked congruent primes were presented immediately before the action. Critically, however, unawareness of the masked primes was established by post hoc data selection. In our preregistered study we sought to explore these findings while adjusting prime visi...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 13, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Fabian Kiepe Guido Hesselmann Source Type: research
Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Apr 12;121:103684. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103684. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo what degree human cognition is influenced by subliminal stimuli is a controversial empirical question. One striking example was reported by Linser and Goschke (2007): participants overestimated how much control they had over objectively uncontrollable stimuli when masked congruent primes were presented immediately before the action. Critically, however, unawareness of the masked primes was established by post hoc data selection. In our preregistered study we sought to explore these findings while adjusting prime visi...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 13, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Fabian Kiepe Guido Hesselmann Source Type: research
Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Apr 12;121:103684. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103684. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo what degree human cognition is influenced by subliminal stimuli is a controversial empirical question. One striking example was reported by Linser and Goschke (2007): participants overestimated how much control they had over objectively uncontrollable stimuli when masked congruent primes were presented immediately before the action. Critically, however, unawareness of the masked primes was established by post hoc data selection. In our preregistered study we sought to explore these findings while adjusting prime visi...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 13, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Fabian Kiepe Guido Hesselmann Source Type: research
The involvement of decomposition and composition processes in restructuring during problem solving
This study aims to investigate the roles of both decomposition and composition processes in chunk restructuring, as well as their relationships with "aha" experiences during problem-solving. Participants were asked to move a part of a character to another character to create two new characters. Across three experiments, the characters to be decomposed or composed were varied in terms of tight or loose chunks. The results showed that decomposition or composition of tight chunks led to lower success rates, longer response times, and significantly stronger "Aha!" emotional experiences (mainly in terms of surprise and suddenne...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 10, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Zhonglu Zhang Yizhu Li Yuxin Zeng Jiamin Deng Qiang Xing Jing Luo Source Type: research
The involvement of decomposition and composition processes in restructuring during problem solving
This study aims to investigate the roles of both decomposition and composition processes in chunk restructuring, as well as their relationships with "aha" experiences during problem-solving. Participants were asked to move a part of a character to another character to create two new characters. Across three experiments, the characters to be decomposed or composed were varied in terms of tight or loose chunks. The results showed that decomposition or composition of tight chunks led to lower success rates, longer response times, and significantly stronger "Aha!" emotional experiences (mainly in terms of surprise and suddenne...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 10, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Zhonglu Zhang Yizhu Li Yuxin Zeng Jiamin Deng Qiang Xing Jing Luo Source Type: research
The involvement of decomposition and composition processes in restructuring during problem solving
This study aims to investigate the roles of both decomposition and composition processes in chunk restructuring, as well as their relationships with "aha" experiences during problem-solving. Participants were asked to move a part of a character to another character to create two new characters. Across three experiments, the characters to be decomposed or composed were varied in terms of tight or loose chunks. The results showed that decomposition or composition of tight chunks led to lower success rates, longer response times, and significantly stronger "Aha!" emotional experiences (mainly in terms of surprise and suddenne...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 10, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Zhonglu Zhang Yizhu Li Yuxin Zeng Jiamin Deng Qiang Xing Jing Luo Source Type: research
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Apr;120:103679. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103679. Epub 2024 Apr 1.ABSTRACTAphantasia is a condition that is often characterized as the impaired ability to create voluntary mental images. Aphantasia is assumed to selectively affect voluntary imagery mainly because even though aphantasics report being unable to visualize something at will, many report having visual dreams. We argue that this common characterization of aphantasia is incorrect. Studies on aphantasia are often not clear about whether they are assessing voluntary or involuntary imagery, but some studies show that several forms of involuntar...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Raquel Krempel Merlin Monzel Source Type: research
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Apr 1;120:103679. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103679. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAphantasia is a condition that is often characterized as the impaired ability to create voluntary mental images. Aphantasia is assumed to selectively affect voluntary imagery mainly because even though aphantasics report being unable to visualize something at will, many report having visual dreams. We argue that this common characterization of aphantasia is incorrect. Studies on aphantasia are often not clear about whether they are assessing voluntary or involuntary imagery, but some studies show that several forms of in...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Raquel Krempel Merlin Monzel Source Type: research
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Apr 1;120:103679. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103679. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAphantasia is a condition that is often characterized as the impaired ability to create voluntary mental images. Aphantasia is assumed to selectively affect voluntary imagery mainly because even though aphantasics report being unable to visualize something at will, many report having visual dreams. We argue that this common characterization of aphantasia is incorrect. Studies on aphantasia are often not clear about whether they are assessing voluntary or involuntary imagery, but some studies show that several forms of in...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Raquel Krempel Merlin Monzel Source Type: research
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Apr 1;120:103679. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103679. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAphantasia is a condition that is often characterized as the impaired ability to create voluntary mental images. Aphantasia is assumed to selectively affect voluntary imagery mainly because even though aphantasics report being unable to visualize something at will, many report having visual dreams. We argue that this common characterization of aphantasia is incorrect. Studies on aphantasia are often not clear about whether they are assessing voluntary or involuntary imagery, but some studies show that several forms of in...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Raquel Krempel Merlin Monzel Source Type: research
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Apr 1;120:103679. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103679. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAphantasia is a condition that is often characterized as the impaired ability to create voluntary mental images. Aphantasia is assumed to selectively affect voluntary imagery mainly because even though aphantasics report being unable to visualize something at will, many report having visual dreams. We argue that this common characterization of aphantasia is incorrect. Studies on aphantasia are often not clear about whether they are assessing voluntary or involuntary imagery, but some studies show that several forms of in...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Raquel Krempel Merlin Monzel Source Type: research
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Apr 1;120:103679. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103679. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAphantasia is a condition that is often characterized as the impaired ability to create voluntary mental images. Aphantasia is assumed to selectively affect voluntary imagery mainly because even though aphantasics report being unable to visualize something at will, many report having visual dreams. We argue that this common characterization of aphantasia is incorrect. Studies on aphantasia are often not clear about whether they are assessing voluntary or involuntary imagery, but some studies show that several forms of in...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - April 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Raquel Krempel Merlin Monzel Source Type: research
Task relevance alters the effect of emotion on congruency judgments during action understanding
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Mar 29;120:103682. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103682. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe congruency judgments in action understanding helps individuals make timely adjustments to unexpected occurrence, and this process may be influenced by emotion. Previous research has showed contradictory effect of emotion on conflict processing, possibly due to the degree of relevance between emotion and task. However, to date, no study has systematically manipulated the relevance to explore how emotion affects congruency judgments in action understanding. We employed a cue-target paradigm and controlled the way emot...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - March 30, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Yiheng Chen Qiwei Zhao Yueyi Ding Yingzhi Lu Source Type: research
Task relevance alters the effect of emotion on congruency judgments during action understanding
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Mar 29;120:103682. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103682. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe congruency judgments in action understanding helps individuals make timely adjustments to unexpected occurrence, and this process may be influenced by emotion. Previous research has showed contradictory effect of emotion on conflict processing, possibly due to the degree of relevance between emotion and task. However, to date, no study has systematically manipulated the relevance to explore how emotion affects congruency judgments in action understanding. We employed a cue-target paradigm and controlled the way emot...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - March 30, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Yiheng Chen Qiwei Zhao Yueyi Ding Yingzhi Lu Source Type: research
Task relevance alters the effect of emotion on congruency judgments during action understanding
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Mar 29;120:103682. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103682. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe congruency judgments in action understanding helps individuals make timely adjustments to unexpected occurrence, and this process may be influenced by emotion. Previous research has showed contradictory effect of emotion on conflict processing, possibly due to the degree of relevance between emotion and task. However, to date, no study has systematically manipulated the relevance to explore how emotion affects congruency judgments in action understanding. We employed a cue-target paradigm and controlled the way emot...
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - March 30, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Yiheng Chen Qiwei Zhao Yueyi Ding Yingzhi Lu Source Type: research
