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{"title":"The influence of the partner’s predictability on the sense of agency in joint action","authors":"Alexis Le Besnerais ,&nbsp;Bruno Berberian ,&nbsp;Ouriel Grynszpan","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103852","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103852","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the sense of agency (SoA) in cooperative contexts, focusing on how predictability of a partner’s actions influences SoA. It hypothesizes that higher predictability enhances SoA. Participants performed a musical task requiring coordination with a co-agent. The predictability of the co-agent was manipulated across three action-outcome mapping conditions: Same as the participant, reversed and random. Temporal Binding (TB) and explicit judgments indicated a significant effect of predictability when participants executed the last musical note, evidenced by differences between the same mapping condition and the two others. By contrast, predictability did not significantly impact TB when the co-agent executed the last note, suggesting different cognitive processes may be involved for other-generated actions. These findings suggest that sensorimotor representations of the actions of others influence our sense of agency within collaborative contexts. Hence, our ability to smoothly anticipate a partner’s actions enhances our collaborative experience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 103852"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143768000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Invisible Dangers”: Unconscious processing of angry vs fearful faces and its relationship to subjective anger","authors":"Anna Pelliet ,&nbsp;Marlene Nogueira ,&nbsp;Catarina Fagundes ,&nbsp;Susana Capela ,&nbsp;Fátima Saraiva ,&nbsp;Erdem Pulcu ,&nbsp;Catherine J. Harmer ,&nbsp;Susannah E. Murphy ,&nbsp;Liliana P. Capitão","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103848","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103848","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional paradigms for studying the unconscious processing of threatening facial expressions face methodological limitations and have predominantly focused on fear, leaving gaps in our understanding of anger. Additionally, it is unclear how the unconscious perception of anger influences subjective anger experiences. To address this, the current study employed Continuous Flash Suppression (CFS), a robust method for studying unconscious processing, to assess suppression times for angry, fearful and happy facial expressions. Following the administration of CFS, participants underwent an anger induction paradigm, and state anger symptoms were assessed at multiple timepoints. Suppression times for angry faces were compared to those for happy and fearful faces, and their relationship with state anger symptoms post-induction was examined. Results revealed that fearful faces broke suppression significantly faster than happy faces. Anger was slower to break suppression compared to fear, but no significant differences emerged between anger and happiness. In addition, the faster emergence into awareness of fear compared to anger was linked to an increased state anger after the induction, indicating that differences in the unconscious processing of these two emotions can potentially influence symptoms of subjective anger. These findings provide new insights into how angry and fearful faces are processed unconsciously, with implications for understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying subjective anger.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103848"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143697774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Temporal error monitoring: Monitoring of internal clock or just motor noise?","authors":"Sena N. Bilgin ,&nbsp;Tadeusz W. Kononowicz","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103849","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103849","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding how humans monitor and evaluate temporal errors is crucial for uncovering the mechanisms of metacognitive processes, linking the fields of time perception and metacognition. In a typical paradigm, participants self-generate a time interval and subsequently can accurately evaluate its error. The implicit assumption in the field has been that participants monitor temporal representations. Even though temporal error monitoring has been replicated numerous times, it remains unclear what kind of information participants monitor when assessing the just-generated interval. Here, we assessed two scenarios in which participants could monitor sources of variability in temporal error monitoring: the internal representation of duration (Clock Hypothesis) or just motor signal (Motor Hypothesis). We assessed temporal error monitoring by inducing different levels of motor signal in motor timing, with the expectation that these levels of motor execution would influence temporal error monitoring outcomes. The motor signal was manipulated by instructing participants to either use button presses or joystick movements to produce time intervals, allowing us to evaluate and report how different levels of motor execution signal affect temporal error monitoring. According to the Clock Hypothesis, the additional motor signal should impair the accuracy of temporal error monitoring. Conversely, the Motor Hypothesis posits that additional induced signal should enhance the accuracy of temporal error monitoring. In line with the Clock Hypothesis, error monitoring performance was enhanced in a condition with a lower motor signal. These results show that humans evaluate their errors based on an informationally rich representation of internal duration, supporting metacognitive abilities in temporal error monitoring.</div><div><strong>Public significance:</strong> Temporal error monitoring emerged from the fields of interval timing, decision-making, and metacognition, positing that humans evaluate the sign and magnitude of their temporal errors. Here, we critically test whether participants assess their timing representations as such and whether they are aware of the correctness of these evaluations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103849"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143686363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Temporal binding during deliberate rule breaking","authors":"Carl Michael Galang ,&nbsp;Ayça Akan ,&nbsp;Roland Pfister ,&nbsp;Marcel Brass","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103851","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103851","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rules are deeply ingrained in our cognition. The current study investigates the influence of rule breaking on explicit sense of agency as well as the implicit perceptual illusion of temporal binding. Participants completed a free choice task that involved following or breaking a predetermined rule. The task required pressing a key that matched to a visual stimulus which triggered a corresponding change after a delay. Participants estimated the delay as an index of temporal binding. The results showed similar levels of explicit agency for rule following and breaking. Temporal binding, by contrast, was indeed influenced by rule breaking; however, the relationship is complex. Specifically, participants had smaller interval estimates for rule following vs. breaking at the 100 ms delay, likely reflecting cognitive conflict during rule breaking, whereas this effect reversed for the 400 ms and 700 ms delays. We interpret our results in relation to the wider rule breaking and temporal binding literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103851"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143686362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Task set reconfiguration following masked and unmasked task cues","authors":"Alexander Berger,&nbsp;Markus Kiefer","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103850","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103850","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous previous studies have shown that masked stimuli trigger cognitive control processes, including the activation of task sets, and thereby affect subsequent processing. However, it has not been directly tested whether unconsciously activated task sets also need to be reconfigured when switching to a new task, as has been shown for consciously triggered task sets. To test whether unconsciously activated task sets are subject to inhibitory processes, we measured n-2 repetition costs following masked cue presentation in a task switching design. We furthermore simultaneously assessed event-related potentials (ERPs) to gain additional insights into task set reconfiguration processes. Results showed that task sets were inhibited following the presentation of an unmasked task cue, as reflected by n-2 repetition costs. Furthermore, a cue-locked positivity ERP component indicated that task sets were reconfigured following both mere task preparation and task execution. In contrast, no evidence for a reconfiguration of unconsciously activated task sets was observed following masked cue presentation in either measure. Thus, task set reconfiguration, including the inhibition of a task set, is likely tied to conscious task set activation, suggesting that an unconscious process – once initiated – is not terminated by inhibitory processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103850"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143642997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does perceived voluntariness of others’ actions induce vicarious sense of agency? Evidence from human-robot interaction","authors":"Cecilia Roselli ,&nbsp;Francesca Ciardo ,&nbsp;Davide De Tommaso ,&nbsp;Agnieszka Wykowska","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103835","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103835","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of control over one’s actions and outcomes. People can experience “vicarious” SoA towards other agents, either other humans or artificial agents such as robots. A commonly used measure of implicit SoA is the Intentional Binding (IB) effect, which is stronger when the action is voluntary, relative to involuntary. However, it remains unclear whether this is true also for vicarious SoA. Thus, in three experiments, participants performed an IB task alone and with another agent, namely with another human (Experiment 1) or with the humanoid robot iCub (Experiments 2 and 3). The co-agents’ actions were presented as voluntary or involuntary- triggered by a mechanical device. Participants reported the time of occurrence of self-generated actions, as well as the other’s human actions (Experiment 1), the robot actions (Experiment 2) or robot outcomes (Experiment 3). Experiment 1 showed that both self- and vicarious IB occurred only when the actions were voluntary. In Experiment 2, IB for self-actions occurred only when voluntary, but vicarious IB over iCub’s actions occurred irrespective of whether the action was presented as “voluntary” or “involuntary”. Experiment 3 showed that IB over tone outcomes occurred for self-generated and robot actions. Our findings suggest that voluntariness of actions plays a role in the emergence of the IB affect (and, by extension, of SoA) only if predictive processes are at play. They also indicate that vicarious IB for robots is based on postdictive processes, and this, perceived voluntariness of the robot actions does not modulate the vicarious IB effect for robots.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103835"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The influence of self-experienced iconic finger-postures on numerical processing: Hemispheric asymmetries in semantic integration","authors":"Andrea Adriano ,&nbsp;Michaël Vande Velde","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103838","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103838","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Embodied cognition theories suggest that abstract concepts, like numbers, are understood through the sensory-motor system. Iconic finger gestures have been shown to facilitate number processing, implying a shared semantic code between finger and Arabic numeral representations. This study used the Divided Visual Field paradigm to investigate where this cross-modal priming occurs in the brain. Twenty-four participants identified Arabic digits (2–3–4) by pressing a key with one hand, while their non-responding hand remained in a canonical (culturally-typical) or non-canonical finger posture. Results revealed faster reaction times in the left hemisphere when the hand was in a canonical posture but only when bodily and visual information matched within the same hemisphere. No semantic priming was observed in the right hemisphere, highlighting a hemispheric asymmetry in integrating finger-numeral and Arabic-digit representations. These findings demonstrate a clear left-hemispheric specialization in the semantic integration of finger and numeral representations, at least for small numbers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103838"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Temporal action-effect prediction does not affect perceived loudness, but the sense of agency","authors":"Elisabeth Lindner ,&nbsp;Tobias Schöberl ,&nbsp;Andrea Desantis ,&nbsp;Alexander Gail","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103837","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103837","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Motor theories propose that predicting sensory consequences of one’s own actions reduces perception and neural processing of these action-effects, a phenomenon known as sensory attenuation, considered an implicit measure of agency. However, recent findings question the link between action-effect prediction and sensory attenuation. This study directly examined the link between temporal action-effect prediction and auditory sensory attenuation, alongside assessing self-reported agency. Participants experienced self-initiated auditory effects with varying latencies and compared their loudness to a reference tone, whose intensities were modulated to measure auditory discrimination. Results showed no change in perceived loudness across delays, while agency ratings decreased with longer delays. A second experiment controlled for hazard rate effects, confirming initial findings. Our results contrast previous behavioral findings from the tactile modality and conclusions drawn from auditory electroencephalography. We suggest reconsidering auditory sensory attenuation as a necessary consequence of action-effect prediction and as an implicit measure of agency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103837"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experience after Floatation-REST: Relaxation during floating mediates the afterglow effect","authors":"Iraklis Pantazis ,&nbsp;Marc Wittmann","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103836","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103836","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The term “afterglow” originally described the heightened mood and relaxation following psychedelics and later extended to other altered states. Despite anecdotal reports, little research has explored this effect, especially in Floatation-REST (Reduced Environmental Stimulation Technique). In this method, individuals float in thermoneutral, supersaturated salt water in a dark, quiet tank. Using a crossover design, 34 participants (17 females, 17 males; avg. age 32.2, SD = 8.8) were randomized to 60 min of Floatation-REST or Bed-REST (a control condition on a waterbed). Floatation-REST induced significantly weaker body boundaries, significantly stronger time distortion, and significantly greater relaxation. Post-exposure, participants reported a significantly stronger afterglow, significantly more state mindfulness, and significantly greater interoceptive awareness. Mediation analysis showed relaxation during floating fully explains the afterglow effect. These findings align with psychedelic research, suggesting Floatation-REST elicits similar effects and laying the groundwork for future studies on prolonged afterglow experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103836"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Earworms as ‘mental habits’: Involuntary musical imagery is associated with a wide range of habitual behaviors","authors":"Chris M. Dodds","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103834","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103834","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Earworms have been associated with symptoms of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), indicating a link to neurocognitive systems involved in the regulation of habitual behavior. The present study investigated whether earworms are associated with a range of habits and compulsions, and with a broader tendency to behave in habitual, routine ways in everyday life. Participants (N = 883) completed an online survey measuring frequency of earworms, other habits and compulsions, everyday habitual tendencies and anxiety. Habitual tendencies in everyday life positively predicted earworm frequency, control and disturbance, even when controlling for anxiety. Furthermore, earworms were strongly associated with 22 other habitual behaviors and compulsions, with the strongest associations being observed for repetitive motor behaviors such as foot tapping, and repetitive mental behaviors such as counting and spelling. These findings suggest that previously observed associations between earworms and OCD symptomatology might be due to a common basis in systems that produce and regulate habitual behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103834"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143528761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}