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Reimagining the vividness of visual imagery questionnaire as a single item screener for aphantasia. 视觉意象问卷的生动性作为幻觉的单项筛选器的再构想。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104061

Merlin Monzel, John W Pickering, David M Condon, Michael J Beran, Tom Ebeyer

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Semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming: The role of attention. 语义-自传式记忆启动：注意的作用。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-05-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104062

John H Mace, Kaitlyn R Parker, Jaden D Woerner

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Unconscious semantic processing: Insights from metaphorical priming 无意识语义加工：隐喻启动的启示

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104035

Chiara Saponaro , Andrea Nadalini , Daniel Casasanto , Davide Crepaldi , Roberto Bottini

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The role of visual imagery and verbal coding in short-term memory conjunctive binding: evidence from aphantasia 视觉意象和语言编码在短时记忆中的作用：来自失忆症的证据。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104036

Emma Delhaye , Pauline Fritz , Charlotte Martial , Christine Bastin

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Social mindfulness is associated with reduced self-bias: A computational approach 社会正念与减少自我偏见有关：一种计算方法

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104037

Marius Golubickis , Siobhan Caughey , Esther S. Selvaraj , Parnian Jalalian , Yadvi Sharma , Jessica Highflield , Rinki Kanakraj , C. Neil Macrae

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True or false: The effect of numerical magnitude on sense of agency 对或错：数字大小对代理感的影响

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104042

Ryuhei Yasuda, Kyoshiro Sasaki

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Method matters: Diverging patterns in online measures of temporal binding 方法问题：时间绑定在线测量的不同模式。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104022

Crystal A. Silver , Benjamin W. Tatler , Ramakrishna Chakravarthi , Bert Timmermans

{"title":"Method matters: Diverging patterns in online measures of temporal binding","authors":"Crystal A. Silver , Benjamin W. Tatler , Ramakrishna Chakravarthi , Bert Timmermans","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2026.104022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2026.104022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Temporal Binding (TB) refers to the subjective compression of time between an action and its outcome. While TB has been demonstrated across various paradigms, questions remain about its methodological reliability, particularly in online settings where technical control is limited. The present study examined whether two common interval judgement methods, estimation and replication, yield comparable TB effects when implemented online and whether either method is differentially sensitive to social contextual framing.</div><div>In Experiment 1, participants judged action-effect intervals using estimation or replication, across action-reaction and observation conditions. Results revealed that the two methods produced different and often opposing patterns of results across action-effect intervals.</div><div>Experiment 2 introduced a minimal social manipulation in which participants were led to believe that a previous participant generated interval outcomes. Again, method-specific patterns emerged, depending on different action-effect intervals.</div><div>These findings raise concerns about the robustness of TB effects as measured in online environments. The observed divergences across methods suggest that interval judgement paradigms may be highly sensitive to procedural and contextual factors. We suggest that TB effects obtained through online interval estimation or replication should be interpreted with caution, as the presence or absence of a TB effect may be due to the specific method used or the presented action-effect intervals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"140 ","pages":"Article 104022"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146259986","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}

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On sensory similarities 关于感官相似性。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104019

Charles Spence , Nicola Di Stefano

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Shape tasting: A comparative evaluation of crossmodal correspondence in wine tasting 形状品鉴：葡萄酒品鉴中跨模式对应的比较评价。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104023

Max Opitz , Nicolette Sutherland , Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez , Greg Jensen , Patrick Reuter , Michael Pitts

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Top-down and bottom-up attentional responses to manipulations of perceptual organization in a complex visual Image: A flicker task study using a medieval mosaic as a case study 复杂视觉图像中知觉组织操纵的自上而下和自下而上注意反应：以中世纪马赛克为例的闪烁任务研究。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104020

Vanja Martini , Giuseppe Forte , Francesca Favieri , Ilaria Corbo , Enrico Di Pace , Marco Iosa , Maria Casagrande

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