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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

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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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Moving through time: The influence of body motion on temporal concepts of future in Chinese sighted and blind people. 穿越时空：身体运动对中国视力和盲人未来时间概念的影响。

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103920

Heng Li, Yu Cao

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Assessing the truth effect’s reliability and test–retest stability 评估真值效应的信度和重测稳定性

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103923

Frank Calio , Lena Nadarevic , Jochen Musch

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Building blocks for theories of consciousness 意识理论的基石

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103919

Azenet Lopez , Wanja Wiese

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Developmentally enhanced visual reliability reduces susceptibility to the sound-induced flash illusion: Evidence from bayesian causal inference 发育增强的视觉可靠性降低了对声音引起的闪光错觉的敏感性：来自贝叶斯因果推理的证据

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103921

Aijun Wang , Jiwen Zhang , Guanying Liu , Haocheng Zhu , Zepeng Xing , Chunlin Yue , Xiaoyu Tang

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Structuring the environment nudges participants toward hierarchical over shortest path planning 构建环境促使参与者倾向于分层而不是最短路径规划

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103908

Valeria Simonelli , Davide Nuzzi , Gian Luca Lancia , Giovanni Pezzulo

{"title":"Structuring the environment nudges participants toward hierarchical over shortest path planning","authors":"Valeria Simonelli , Davide Nuzzi , Gian Luca Lancia , Giovanni Pezzulo","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103908","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Effective planning is crucial for navigating complex environments and achieving goals efficiently. In this study, we investigated how environmental structure influences the selection of planning strategies. Forty-two participants navigated a space station to collect colored spheres, with environments either structured (spheres grouped by color) or unstructured (spheres scattered randomly). We tested three types of plans: hierarchical (grouping spheres by color), shortest path (minimizing travel distance), and neutral (none of the above). By manipulating environmental structure, we were able to nudge participants toward a preference for hierarchical planning in structured environments, while shortest path plans were favored in unstructured environments. A mismatch between self-reported preferences and actual choices indicated that participants often adopted implicit strategies, unaware of their decision-making processes. These findings highlight the powerful effect of environmental cues on planning and suggest that even subtle changes in structure can guide the selection of planning strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 103908"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144770999","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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Validity of the think-aloud procedure in comparison to other methods for studying the phenomenological features and memory of spontaneous thought 与其他研究自发性思维的现象学特征和记忆的方法相比，有声思维过程的有效性

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103910

Arya Gilles , Gaëlle Panneels , Arnaud D’Argembeau , David Stawarczyk

{"title":"Validity of the think-aloud procedure in comparison to other methods for studying the phenomenological features and memory of spontaneous thought","authors":"Arya Gilles , Gaëlle Panneels , Arnaud D’Argembeau , David Stawarczyk","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103910","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103910","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A hallmark of the human mind is its tendency to generate spontaneous thoughts, whether during tasks or in idle moments. This phenomenon is typically studied in the laboratory using the Thought-Probe Protocol (TPP), in which participants report the content of their thoughts when prompted at various intervals. Although well validated, the TPP nonetheless suffers from several limitations, such as its inability to track the flow of thoughts between probes. To address these issues, researchers have recently revisited the Think-Aloud Protocol (TAP), which involves the continuous verbalization of spontaneous thoughts. While the TAP offers access to the ongoing flow of thoughts, its validity relative to other methods has not yet been fully established. In this study, we compared four methods for assessing spontaneous thoughts: the TAP, TPP, Daily Life Experience Sampling Protocol (DLESP), and retrospective thought listing. We focused on the phenomenological characteristics of thoughts and features that predicted their recall after a one-day delay. Our results revealed minimal differences between the TAP and TPP in terms of thought characteristics and memory predictors. However, thoughts reported with these two methods differed from those assessed more ecologically with the DLESP, and certain thought features were overrepresented in retrospective thought listing. Overall, our findings suggest that the TAP is as valid as the TPP for investigating spontaneous thought, although thought characteristics may differ between laboratory and real-world settings. They also suggest that concurrent reporting methods, such as the TAP and TPP, provide a more representative view of spontaneous thought features than retrospective assessments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 103910"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144771001","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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Do eye movements reflect readers’ thoughts during reading? Evidence from multidimensional experience sampling and eye movements 在阅读过程中，眼球运动是否反映了读者的思想？来自多维经验采样和眼球运动的证据

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103918

Diane Mézière , Johanna K. Kaakinen , Emilia Ranta , Karin Kukkonen , Jonathan Smallwood , Jaana Simola

{"title":"Do eye movements reflect readers’ thoughts during reading? Evidence from multidimensional experience sampling and eye movements","authors":"Diane Mézière , Johanna K. Kaakinen , Emilia Ranta , Karin Kukkonen , Jonathan Smallwood , Jaana Simola","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103918","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103918","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While reading narrative texts, readers’ attention often fluctuates from the text (e.g., immersion) to text-unrelated thoughts (e.g., mind-wandering). Research on mind-wandering and immersion suggests that they influence the reading process differently. In this article, we examine the types of thoughts readers have while reading a literary text. Specifically, we investigated the effect of immersion and mind-wandering on eye-movement behaviour during reading. Fifty-six participants read extracts from a novel while their eye-movements were monitored. Participants’ thoughts were probed using multidimensional experience sampling. We identified four types of thought: Immersion, Mind-wandering, Sub-Vocalization, and Social Episodic Thoughts. We then ran General Additive Mixed Models (GAMMs) to examine the relationship between these thought types and eye movements. Results show that eye movements are influenced by the types of thoughts readers experience while reading literary texts. These results have important implications for the way that mind-wandering is typically investigated, particularly in reading research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 103918"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144771002","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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Attentional boost effect and pattern separation with visual and verbal materials 视觉和语言材料的注意力增强效应和模式分离

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103917

Pietro Spataro , Daniele Saraulli , Stefano Saraulli

{"title":"Attentional boost effect and pattern separation with visual and verbal materials","authors":"Pietro Spataro , Daniele Saraulli , Stefano Saraulli","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103917","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103917","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Attentional Boost Effect (ABE) refers to the finding that images encoded with to-be-responded targets are later remembered more accurately than images encoded with to-be-ignored distractors. The Dual-Task Interaction Model posits that the Attentional Boost Effect (ABE) elicits a transient enhancement in the perceptual resources allocated to the processing of target-associated images. With visual materials, this assumption has been supported by previous data showing that the ABE enhances pattern separation. In the present study we sought to determine first whether this facilitation could be replicated using a different paradigm, and second whether it could be extended to verbal materials. Furthermore, the use of words allowed us to disentangle the impact of the ABE on perceptual and conceptual pattern separation. The results showed that the ABE enhanced traditional recognition memory in all cases, whereas it failed to increase pattern separation, irrespective of the nature of the processes involved and the number of response options available in the recognition task. Our data are consistent with the idea that the ABE with verbal materials operates at the level of abstract, amodal representations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 103917"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144737960","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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