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Body ownership and vicarious Agency: Behavioural consequences in a virtual reality rock concert 身体所有权和代理：虚拟现实摇滚音乐会的行为后果

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103903

Reiya Itatani , Gizem Senel , A.Sencer Topcu , Mel Slater

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Experimental evidence that illusory feelings of prediction can be caused by familiarity detection 实验证据表明，预测的虚幻感觉可以由熟悉度检测引起

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103904

Andrew M. Huebert , Sarah J. Myers , Anne M. Cleary

{"title":"Experimental evidence that illusory feelings of prediction can be caused by familiarity detection","authors":"Andrew M. Huebert , Sarah J. Myers , Anne M. Cleary","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103904","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103904","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Déjà vu is the sensation that a situation feels familiar while believing that it has never been encountered before. An interesting facet of déjà vu is that it is often associated with an illusory sense of knowing what will happen next (feelings of prediction, or FOPs). Research has shown that déjà vu accompanied by FOPs carries with it higher perceived familiarity intensity than déjà vu unaccompanied by a FOP. However, these findings have mainly been correlational, making it unclear if the sense of familiarity itself plays a causal role in FOPs. In three experiments, we examined whether experimentally increasing familiarity can causally drive FOPs. In a variant of a method previously used to study déjà vu, participants completed virtual tours of novel scenes that each had their spatial layout familiarized to a different degree (a scene with a similar layout was earlier presented three times, once, or not at all). Participants were asked if the novel scene felt familiar, if they had a sense of what would happen next, and to predict what would happen. Participants were never asked about feelings of déjà vu to eliminate the possibility that prompting the déjà vu experience could lead participants to think they should respond a certain way to the other questions. When participants could not actually recall the similar studied scene, FOPs increased with increases in experimentally created spatial layout familiarity. These results suggest that familiarity-detection itself can produce FOPs during déjà vu, and potentially outside of déjà vu as well.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103904"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144653555","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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Mental rotation is a weak measure of people’s propensity to visualise 心理旋转是衡量人们视觉化倾向的一个薄弱指标

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103907

Derek H. Arnold , Loren N. Bouyer , Blake W. Saurels , Elizabeth Pellicano , D. Samuel Schwarzkopf

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Punishing temporal judgement boosts sense of agency and modulates its underlying neural correlates 惩罚时间判断会增强代理感并调节其潜在的神经相关

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103905

Christopher M. Hill , Numa Samnani , Leo Barzi , Matt Wilson

{"title":"Punishing temporal judgement boosts sense of agency and modulates its underlying neural correlates","authors":"Christopher M. Hill , Numa Samnani , Leo Barzi , Matt Wilson","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103905","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103905","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Feeling in control of one’s actions is fundamental to the formation of action-outcome relationships. Reinforcement and its valence also change the action-outcome relationship, either through behavior promotion or diminishment. In this study we evaluated how reward and punishment reinforcement modulate sense of agency, as measured by intentional binding. Moreover, using electroencephalography (EEG) we evaluated how reward and punishment reinforcement changes outcome event related potentials associated with the accuracy of participants’ judgement of the time interval between a key press and audio tone. We found that punishment reinforcement increased intentional binding between the action and outcome more than reward but not significantly more than control feedback. Punishment elicited greater outcome event-related potentials, P300s and Late Positive Potential, compared to reward and control. We also found increased N100s and diminished P300s and Late Positive Potentials when the participants did not actively participate in evoking the tone. Taken together, our findings showcase that punishment reinforcement boosts sense of agency and modulates associated neural activity more than reward and no reinforcement, as a function of increasing attention and arousal. These findings illuminate the greater effect punishment reinforcement has on behavior and brain activity by its modification of sense of agency, which is important for the development of treatments in psychiatric and neurological diseases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103905"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144604503","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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Meditation and psychedelics facilitate similar types of mystical, psychological, and philosophical-existential insights predictive of wellbeing: a qualitative-quantitative approach 冥想和迷幻药促进了类似类型的神秘主义、心理学和哲学存在主义的洞察力，可以预测幸福：一种定性-定量的方法

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103901

Jussi Jylkkä , Hilla Väyrynen , Enyu Lin , Catharina Walldén , Andreas Krabbe , Juuso Kähönen , Pilleriin Sikka

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Why is mindfulness helpful? Exploration of the flexibility of cortical control in practitioners of Buddhism 为什么正念是有用的？佛教修行者皮层控制灵活性的探索

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103902

Jei-Yi Lu, Chih-Chieh Chang, Tzu-Ling Chang, Wei-Lun Lin

{"title":"Why is mindfulness helpful? Exploration of the flexibility of cortical control in practitioners of Buddhism","authors":"Jei-Yi Lu, Chih-Chieh Chang, Tzu-Ling Chang, Wei-Lun Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103902","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103902","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Empirical evidence has demonstrated the beneficial effects of mindfulness in the enhancement of positive psychology factors and cognitive performances, as well as in the remission of psychological distress. Researchers have proposed mechanisms for mindfulness’ comprehensive effects, such as through mental flexibility, and examined indices of neurophysiological changes. This study provided a new neuroscientific index via the aid of a neurofeedback device to investigate the role of active cortical control and, hence, mental flexibility in Buddhist meditation practitioners as compared to nonpractitioners. Twenty-eight Buddhist meditation practitioners and 28 nonpractitioners proceeded individually with the EEG neurofeedback procedure as well as with the assessments of self-esteem, subjective well-being, and Buddhist mindfulness levels. The neurofeedback procedure was designed to provide signal feedback according to participants’ alpha brainwaves state, and participants were asked to maintain the appearance and disappearance of the signal as best as they could. The alpha transformation index was computed to measure the ability to voluntarily transition between their mental states. Our results showed that after controlling for age and gender, practitioners demonstrated a significantly higher alpha transformation index, indicating greater mental flexibility, along with enhanced self-esteem, life satisfaction, and lower negative affect as compared to nonpractitioners. The alpha transformation index was also significantly and positively correlated with Buddhist mindfulness levels and life satisfaction. These findings suggest that mindfulness might help improve the ability to switch between different mental processes via modulations of neural efficiency markers and exert its beneficial effects. The newly developed neuroscientific index also encourages future worthwhile investigations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103902"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144510945","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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Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment 锚定在手上，但不是空间上不同的映射，有利于虚幻的多余手指的体现

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103892

Isabel T. Folger , Jared Medina

{"title":"Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment","authors":"Isabel T. Folger , Jared Medina","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103892","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103892","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To induce the Anne Boleyn illusion, an individual’s hands are placed on either side of a mirror and stroked synchronously from the thumb to the empty space neighboring the reflected fifth finger, creating the perception of a supernumerary finger. The hidden fifth finger is stroked on the medial and lateral sides, which correspond to the fifth and “sixth” finger on the visible hand. The percept induced is robust enough to withstand biologically implausible manipulations that break other visuotactile illusions, making the illusion a promising avenue for exploring multisensory integration and illusory embodiment. The present study investigates three aspects of its underlying cognitive mechanisms. First, although embodiment was theorized to require tactile stimulation of two discrete fifth finger locations, we found that stroking only one location does not abolish or reduce the illusion. Second, manipulating the starting location of strokes produced differences in body part categorization of the percept, indicating the influence of top-down constraints from pre-existing body representations. Third, we aimed to identify factors underlying the illusion’s robustness to enhance our understanding of illusory embodiment mechanisms. We found support for the “anchoring” hypothesis, proposing that the sixth finger’s proximity to the real hand may be a critical factor.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103892"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144481404","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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In the hands of metacontrast: Investigating the dual-task structure of an unconscious priming paradigm 在元对比的手中：无意识启动范式的双重任务结构研究

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103900

Charlott Wendt, Guido Hesselmann

{"title":"In the hands of metacontrast: Investigating the dual-task structure of an unconscious priming paradigm","authors":"Charlott Wendt, Guido Hesselmann","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103900","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103900","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our study investigated unconscious priming from a dual-task perspective by means of a metacontrast masking paradigm with trial-by-trial assessments of prime visibility. Participants responded to target stimuli via keypress. In the prime-related direct task, they responded via vocal response (cross-modal) or keypress (unimodal), using either high (four-item) or low (two-item) complexity subjective or objective visibility measures, and responded with either one or two hands. We tested how these manipulations affect response times (RTs) and error rates. In two out of three experiments, participants were unaware of the prime at the shortest stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA), with visibility measures increasing at longer SOAs. RTs were consistently longer in dual-task than single-task conditions. Priming effects were comparable across task types in Experiments 1 and 2, but larger in dual-task conditions in Experiment 3, likely due to increased prime visibility. RTs were also prolonged in unimodal and high-complexity conditions, while two-hands responses led to faster RTs. Priming effects were larger in unimodal conditions, but unaffected by complexity. Hand usage did not affect priming in Experiment 2, but in Experiment 3 where two-hands responses led to increased priming effects. Taken together, our findings highlight the important role of task characteristics like modality, hand usage and complexity in the design of masked priming experiments. We recommend careful consideration of these factors when employing unconscious priming paradigms with trial-by-trial prime visibility judgments, as such paradigms continue to advance our understanding of unconscious cognitive processing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103900"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262926","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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Fixation shifts in a novel “no-report” binocular rivalry paradigm induce saccade-related perceptual switches 在一种新颖的“无报告”双目竞争范式中，注视转移诱导了眼跳相关的知觉转换

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103891

Ege Kingir , Ryo Segawa , Janis K. Hesse , Igor Kagan , Melanie Wilke

{"title":"Fixation shifts in a novel “no-report” binocular rivalry paradigm induce saccade-related perceptual switches","authors":"Ege Kingir , Ryo Segawa , Janis K. Hesse , Igor Kagan , Melanie Wilke","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103891","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103891","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>No-report paradigms help to avoid report-related confounds in conscious perception studies. A novel no-report binocular rivalry paradigm by Hesse and Tsao (2020) tracks conscious content using eye position as subjects follow fixation points linked to the rivaling stimuli. However, it remains unclear whether perceptual switches arise spontaneously or are induced by external factors such as visual transients due to fixation point shifts and saccades. We found an increased probability of perceptual switches time-locked to fixation point shifts, indicating that some switches are externally driven. To disentangle the effects of visual changes and saccades, we implemented a two-factorial design and found that saccades play a larger role in eliciting perceptual switches. We estimate that 14% of saccades trigger a switch, accounting for 24% of all perceptual transitions. Our findings provide an analysis framework and guidelines for excluding externally driven perceptual switches, enabling a clearer focus on internally generated perceptual dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103891"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144240640","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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Dreaming is a conscious experience in its own right: proponents of non-cognitive and non-executive theories of dreaming suffer from a retrospective illusion of their waking extended self 做梦本身就是一种有意识的体验：非认知和非执行的做梦理论的支持者遭受着对他们清醒时扩展自我的追溯幻觉的折磨

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Consciousness and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103890

Ludwig Crespin

{"title":"Dreaming is a conscious experience in its own right: proponents of non-cognitive and non-executive theories of dreaming suffer from a retrospective illusion of their waking extended self","authors":"Ludwig Crespin","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103890","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2025.103890","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To many influential dream researchers, dreaming consciousness is not of the same kind as waking. In its most radical and paradoxical form, this theoretical stance consists in maintaining that dream is a case of conscious experience lacking cognitive access. In a more moderate and common form, dreamers have cognitive access to their oneiric experience but lack any executive function: they have no conscious control over their thoughts and actions within the dream. Consideration of dreaming consciousness, in other words, would imply the loss of self-regulation. Neither of these two theories holds. First, because the very reason showing dreams are consciously experienced, i.e. the fact we can recollect them on awakening, implies they are access conscious in the minimal sense that the dreamer noticed them. Second, because, consistent with this first evidence, dream reports also indicate dreamers are able to rationally assess their situation within the dream and self-regulate their dream behavior as a result. I argue, however, that dreamers have reduced, if altered, extended consciousness with limited access to their waking autobiographical self, and that this could explain why many researchers have the retrospective illusion that the dream ego has no rational control over its thoughts and actions in the dream. Indeed, it is not the same autobiographical self that regulates and recollects the dream. Finally, the fact that a dream takes place in the particular conditions of a sleeping brain should not prevent us from recognizing that it is a conscious experience in its own right.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103890"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144166301","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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