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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103942

Herrick Fung , Medha Shekhar , Kai Xue , Manuel Rausch , Dobromir Rahnev

{"title":"Similarities and differences in the effects of different stimulus manipulations on accuracy and confidence","authors":"Herrick Fung , Medha Shekhar , Kai Xue , Manuel Rausch , Dobromir Rahnev","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103942","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103942","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Visual stimuli can vary in multiple dimensions that affect accuracy and confidence in a perceptual decision-making task. However, previous studies have typically included just one or at most two manipulations, leaving it unclear whether each manipulation has a unique effect on accuracy vs. confidence. Subjects indicated whether a tilted Gabor patch was oriented clockwise or counterclockwise from 45°. We included manipulations of the task-defining feature (tilt offset) and four auxiliary, non-task-defining features (size, duration, spatial frequency, and noise level). We found that the four auxiliary manipulations had fairly similar effects on accuracy and confidence. In contrast, the task-defining tilt offset manipulation stood out by affecting accuracy more strongly than confidence. In addition, tilt offset exhibited a supraadditive interaction with all other manipulations for both accuracy and confidence, whereas all auxiliary manipulations exhibited either no interactions or subadditive interactions with each other. Furthermore, tilt offset was the only manipulation for which confidence in incorrect trials decreased with increasing difficulty, while all auxiliary manipulations exhibited the opposite trend. Overall, our results reveal a noticeable similarity among the effects of all four auxiliary (non-task-defining) manipulations on accuracy and confidence, as well as a prominent difference between them and the task-defining manipulation (tilt offset). These results enable a priori predictions of how novel manipulations would affect accuracy and confidence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"136 ","pages":"Article 103942"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271327","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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Agency, frustration, and the experience of boredom 代理，挫折和无聊的经历

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103940

V. Baaba Dadzie, James Danckert

{"title":"Agency, frustration, and the experience of boredom","authors":"V. Baaba Dadzie, James Danckert","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103940","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103940","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prior work shows that highly boredom prone individuals report feeling diminished levels of agency. The current study investigated the possibility that the highly boredom prone would be more sensitive (and less tolerant) to disruptions to their own agency. Participants played the video game Pong, with delays gradually introduced between their initiation of movements of the paddle and actual movements on the screen as a means of disrupting agency. In addition, participants had the option to reset the game (which also reset delays to zero) as often as they liked. State boredom ratings were negatively associated with subjective ratings of control, a proxy for agency, during game play. Frustration ratings were shown to mediate the association between state boredom and control ratings. For participants who made a minimum of two resets during game play, boredom proneness was predictive of the total number of resets, such that those higher in boredom proneness tended to reset the game more frequently. Further work is needed to determine how the relation between boredom and agency might influence the failure to launch into action that is characteristic of boredom proneness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"136 ","pages":"Article 103940"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271326","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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Am I in control? The dynamics of sensory information, performance feedback, and personality in shaping the sense of control 我能控制一切吗？感官信息的动态，表现反馈，和个性在塑造控制感。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103938

Maren Giersiepen , Nils Wendel Heinrich , Annika Österdiekhoff , Stefan Kopp , Nele Russwinkel , Simone Schütz-Bosbach , Jakob Kaiser

{"title":"Am I in control? The dynamics of sensory information, performance feedback, and personality in shaping the sense of control","authors":"Maren Giersiepen , Nils Wendel Heinrich , Annika Österdiekhoff , Stefan Kopp , Nele Russwinkel , Simone Schütz-Bosbach , Jakob Kaiser","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103938","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103938","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sense of control (SoC) over our actions is crucial for regulating our behavior. SoC arises from low-level processes, such as immediate sensory feedback, and high-level processes, such as performance evaluation. Studies using simple action-effect tasks suggest that people rely more on low-level sensory than on high-level cues of control. Yet, it remains unclear how these cues interact to shape the SoC in complex, goal-directed environments that require continuous behavioral adaptation. To investigate this, 50 participants performed a challenging motor control task akin to a video game, steering a spaceship along a continuously changing path. Sensorimotor control was manipulated by varying task difficulty via input noise across experimental blocks. After each trial, participants received negative, neutral, or positive feedback, followed by rating of their SoC. Linear mixed model analyses revealed that both sensory and evaluative feedback influenced the SoC. SoC decreased with increasing task difficulty. Furthermore, independent of difficulty, negative feedback reduced the SoC whereas positive feedback enhanced it, with a stronger effect for negative feedback. Notably, the effects of task difficulty and negative feedback were influenced by participants’ depressive symptoms and their external locus of control, suggesting that generalized control beliefs modulate task-specific control experience. These findings indicate that SoC is informed by both low-level sensorimotor cues and high-level affective feedback, suggesting an integration of multiple types of information to assess control in dynamic task contexts where action-effect contingencies are extended over time. Crucially, these effects depend on trait-like control beliefs, highlighting the need to account for individual differences when investigating situated control experience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 103938"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145253680","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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ERP responses reveal different neural mechanisms for perception of electrical and tactile stimuli ERP反应揭示了电刺激和触觉刺激感知的不同神经机制。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103935

Jona Förster , Giovanni Vardiero , Till Nierhaus , Felix Blankenburg

{"title":"ERP responses reveal different neural mechanisms for perception of electrical and tactile stimuli","authors":"Jona Förster , Giovanni Vardiero , Till Nierhaus , Felix Blankenburg","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103935","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103935","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>EEG studies have identified ERP components at various latencies as predictors of conscious somatosensory perception, but it remains largely unclear which factors are responsible for this variation. Here, for the first time we directly compare the event-related potential correlates of stimulus detection under tactile versus electrical <em>peri</em>-threshold stimulation using single-trial modelling and Bayesian model selection within and between groups, while controlling for task-relevance and post-perceptual processes with a visual-somatosensory matching task. We find evidence that the P50 component predicts conscious perception under tactile, but not electrical stimulation: while electrical stimulation evokes a P50 already for subliminal stimuli and activity in this time window is best explained by stimulus intensity, there is almost no subliminal P50 for tactile stimulation, and detection best explains the data. In contrast, the N80 and N140 components correlate with detection and detection probability in both stimulation groups. The P100 and the P300 were modulated by detection in the tactile group, and by detection probability in the electrical group. Our results indicate that cortical processing in somatosensory target detection partly depends on the type of stimulation used. We propose that electrical stimulation of afferent nerve fibers that do not give rise to conscious perception may mask the P50 modulation associated with conscious somatosensory detection, and might contribute to subliminal evoked cortical responses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 103935"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145187321","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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Habitual control of instrumental behaviour requires conscious stimulus perception 工具行为的习惯性控制需要有意识的刺激知觉。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103937

Jan-Daniel Höhmann , Gerhard Jocham , Lina I. Skora

{"title":"Habitual control of instrumental behaviour requires conscious stimulus perception","authors":"Jan-Daniel Höhmann , Gerhard Jocham , Lina I. Skora","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103937","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103937","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Habitual behaviour is commonly assumed to operate outside of conscious control, deliberation, or awareness, driven by stimulus–response (S-R) associations rather than goal-directed evaluation. Here, we investigate whether habitual instrumental behaviours can be triggered by stimuli that are prevented from entering subjective awareness with subliminal presentation. In a preregistered within-subjects study (N after exclusions = 75), we examined this question by employing a symmetrical outcome revaluation task. Participants underwent extensive instrumental training, forming strong S-R associations, before completing two testing stages: a conscious stage with fully visible stimuli, and an unconscious stage where stimuli were rendered subliminal via visual masking. In the conscious condition, participants exhibited habitual control, responding more accurately to habit-congruent (still-valuable, still-non-valuable) stimuli than to habit-incongruent (upvalued, devalued) stimuli, replicating prior findings. However, in the unconscious condition participants did not exhibit above-chance accuracy, and responses were not biased toward habitual actions, suggesting that subliminal stimuli were unable to elicit either habitual or goal-directed responses. These findings challenge the notion that habitual control of instrumental behaviour can function independently of stimulus awareness and suggest that conscious access to action-relevant cues may be necessary even for well-established S-R associations to guide behaviour.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 103937"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145245708","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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Stimulus-response binding and retrieval operates independently of contingency awareness: A mega-analysis 刺激-反应结合和检索独立于偶然性意识运作：大型分析

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103936

Matthäus Rudolph , Carina G. Giesen , Klaus Rothermund

{"title":"Stimulus-response binding and retrieval operates independently of contingency awareness: A mega-analysis","authors":"Matthäus Rudolph , Carina G. Giesen , Klaus Rothermund","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103936","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103936","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is an ongoing debate about the role of top-down influences on episodic binding and retrieval processes. The Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC) framework postulates that both, binding and retrieval, are modulated by top-down processes, such as awareness and instructions (<span><span>Frings et al., 2020</span></span>). To test this assumption, we conducted a mega-analysis in which we reanalyzed data from four contingency learning experiments (total <em>N</em> = 859). Contingency awareness was assessed in all experiments. Furthermore, in two experiments, contingency awareness was experimentally manipulated by instructing participants about the existing contingencies. Results show that both binding and retrieval neither depend on nor are modulated by higher-order processes such as contingency knowledge or awareness of stimulus–response contingencies (measured and manipulated). In sum, our findings suggest that stimulus–response binding and retrieval is an automatic cognitive process that operates unconsciously and independently of top-down influences such as contingency knowledge and awareness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 103936"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145118583","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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Individual differences in false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott Paradigm: An attention control account Deese-Roediger-McDermott范式中错误记忆的个体差异：一个注意控制的解释。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103922

Daniel Byrnes, Christopher A. Was

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Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects 研究感觉运动空间依赖在塑造对虚拟3D物体的有意识访问中的作用。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103934

Paweł Motyka , David J. Schwartzman , Anil K. Seth , Keisuke Suzuki

{"title":"Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects","authors":"Paweł Motyka , David J. Schwartzman , Anil K. Seth , Keisuke Suzuki","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103934","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103934","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>According to sensorimotor accounts of perceptual experience, the subjective sense that an object is real builds up as one learns how sensory inputs depend on bodily movements. Using virtual reality (VR), we manipulated the complexity of spatial dependencies governing interactions with unfamiliar 3D objects to assess whether they would show differential access to visual awareness during a continuous flash suppression paradigm (CFS). In specially-designed sensorimotor mastery tasks, participants had to manually control objects rotating in congruent, opposite, novel (orthogonal), or random directions in response to their actions. These tasks alternated with a continuous flash suppression task, in which participants first indicated stimulus detection as quickly as possible and subsequently identified its shape, evaluating the access of stationary objects to visual awareness. We hypothesised that objects governed by lawful (learnable) dependencies would overcome suppression faster than randomly moving objects (for which there is no world-related statistical structure to learn). While sensorimotor control performance decreased with condition difficulty, the pre-registered analysis yielded no differences in breakthrough times across conditions. We discuss methodological factors, stemming from the dual-task CFS design, which potentially account for these null findings and which warrant further study. Overall, our findings are consistent with prior evidence for the negligible role of spatial congruence (compared to contingency) between actions and their visual consequences in shaping perceptual experience under interocular suppression paradigms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 103934"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145082427","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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When action expectation meets reward history: The interaction of proactive and reactive control during inhibitory control 当行动期望满足奖励历史：抑制控制中主动控制和反应控制的相互作用

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103933

Meng Zou , Yongchun Wang , Zhengqi Tang , Ya Li , Yonghui Wang

{"title":"When action expectation meets reward history: The interaction of proactive and reactive control during inhibitory control","authors":"Meng Zou , Yongchun Wang , Zhengqi Tang , Ya Li , Yonghui Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103933","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103933","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Flexibly inhibiting inappropriate responses based on current goals and past experiences is crucial. The dual-mechanism of control (DMC) model proposes that cognitive control involves proactive (expectation-driven) and reactive (stimulus-driven, such as reward history) control. However, how these mechanisms interact during inhibitory control remains unclear. We explored this interaction using cued and non-cued Go/NoGo tasks through two experiments, employing different reward training paradigms: value-driven attentional capture (VDAC, Experiment 1) and monetary incentive delay task (MIDT, Experiment 2). The results showed that reward history interacted with action expectation only when established via the MIDT (Experiment 2), with previously rewarded NoGo target showing lower commission errors under the unexpected condition. In contrast, reward history from the VDAC paradigm (Experiment 1) influenced inhibition independently of action expectation. Across both experiments, reward history generally facilitated response inhibition. These findings suggest that the relationship between proactive and reactive control is flexible, particularly when reactive control is dependent on the nature of prior reward learning. This study provides new insights into how humans weigh current goals with past experiences to guide adaptive behavior in dynamic environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 103933"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997309","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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Aphantasia and the unconscious imagery hypothesis 幻像症和无意识意象假说

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103924

Andy Mckilliam , Manuela Kirberg

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