{"title":"Cognitive flexibility moderates the relationship between openness-to-experience and perceptual reversals of Necker cube","authors":"Mika Koivisto , Cypriana Pallaris","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103698","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is not clear whether personality is related to basic perceptual processes at the level of automatic bottom-up processes or controlled top-down processes. Two experiments examined how personality influences perceptual dynamics, focusing on how cognitive flexibility moderates the relationship between personality and perceptual reversals of the Necker cube. The participants viewed stimuli either passively or with the intent to either hold or switch the orientation of the Necker cube. The influence of openness was predominantly evident in conditions necessitating intentional control over perceptual reversals. The link between openness and intentional perceptual reversals was always moderated by cognitive flexibility, which was measured in three different ways. No relationship was detected between personality traits and reversals in the passive viewing condition, suggesting that relatively spontaneous adaptation-inhibition processes may not be personality-dependent. Overall, our research sheds light on the nuanced influence of personality traits on perceptual experiences, mediated by cognitive flexibility.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"122 ","pages":"Article 103698"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810024000655/pdfft?md5=63d57db9724855210fd560fe95ea2383&pid=1-s2.0-S1053810024000655-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141078403","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}
Deanne M. Green , Ella K. Moeck , Melanie K.T. Takarangi
{"title":"The effect of image category and incidental arousal on boundary restriction","authors":"Deanne M. Green , Ella K. Moeck , Melanie K.T. Takarangi","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103695","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103695","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>People’s memory for scenes has consequences, including for eyewitness testimony. Negative scenes may lead to a particular memory error, where narrowed scene boundaries lead people to recall being closer to a scene than they were. But boundary restriction—including attenuation of the opposite phenomenon boundary extension—has been difficult to replicate, perhaps because heightened arousal accompanying negative scenes, rather than negative valence itself, drives the effect. Indeed, in <span>Green et al. (2019)</span> arousal alone, conditioned to a particular neutral image category, increased boundary restriction for images in that category. But systematic differences between image categories may have driven these results, irrespective of arousal. Here, we clarify whether boundary restriction stems from the external arousal stimulus or image category differences. Presenting one image category (everyday-objects), half accompanied by arousal (Experiment 1), and presenting both neutral image categories (everyday-objects, nature), without arousal (Experiment 2), resulted in no difference in boundary judgement errors. These findings suggest that image features—including inherent valence, arousal, and complexity—are not sufficient to induce boundary restriction or reduce boundary extension for neutral images, perhaps explaining why boundary restriction is inconsistently demonstrated in the lab.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"122 ","pages":"Article 103695"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381002400062X/pdfft?md5=8896b1da8e027283fd3592f2a83c13f0&pid=1-s2.0-S105381002400062X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140960553","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 model of the brain as a complex system: Interactions of physical, neural and mental states with neurocognitive functions","authors":"Hans-Erik Scharfen, Daniel Memmert","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103700","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103700","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The isolated approaching of physical, neural and mental states and the binary classification into stable traits and fluctuating states previously lead to a limited understanding concerning underlying processes and possibilities to explain, measure and regulate neural and mental performance along with the interaction of mental states and neurocognitive traits. In this article these states are integrated by i) differentiating the model of the brain as a complex, self-organizing system, ii) showing possibilities to measure this model, iii) offering a classification of mental states and iv) presenting a holistic operationalization of state regulations and trait trainings to enhance neural and mental high-performance on a macro- and micro scale. This model integrates current findings from the theory of constructed emotions, the theory of thousand brains and complex systems theory and yields several testable hypotheses to provide an integrated reference frame for future research and applied target points to regulate and enhance performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"122 ","pages":"Article 103700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810024000679/pdfft?md5=3be0d6b5b686b99dd752555816a43dc9&pid=1-s2.0-S1053810024000679-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140946208","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":"Implicit visuospatial sequence representations are accessible in both the practice and the transfer hand","authors":"Stephan F. Dahm, Markus Martini, Pierre Sachse","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103696","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A serial reaction time task was used to test whether the representations of a probabilistic second-order sequence structure are (i) stored in an effector-dependent, effector-independent intrinsic or effector-independent visuospatial code and (ii) are inter-manually accessible. Participants were trained either with the dominant or non-dominant hand. Tests were performed with both hands in the practice sequence, a random sequence, and a mirror sequence. Learning did not differ significantly between left and right-hand practice, suggesting symmetric intermanual transfer from the dominant to the non-dominant hand and vice versa. In the posttest, RTs were shorter for the practice sequence than for the random sequence, and longest for the mirror sequence. Participants were unable to freely generate or recognize the practice sequence, indicating implicit knowledge of the probabilistic sequence structure. Because sequence-specific learning did not differ significantly between hands, we conclude that representations of the probabilistic sequence structure are stored in an effector-independent visuospatial code.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103696"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810024000631/pdfft?md5=ff153eb926d2878753bfb13918926259&pid=1-s2.0-S1053810024000631-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140823613","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":"Slower but more accurate mental rotation performance in aphantasia linked to differences in cognitive strategies","authors":"Lachlan Kay , Rebecca Keogh , Joel Pearson","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103694","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mental rotation tasks are frequently used as standard measures of mental imagery. However, aphantasia research has brought such use into question. Here, we assessed a large group of individuals who lack visual imagery (aphantasia) on two mental rotation tasks: a three-dimensional block-shape, and a human manikin rotation task. In both tasks, those with aphantasia had slower, but more accurate responses than controls. Both groups demonstrated classic linear increases in response time and error-rate as functions of angular disparity. In the three-dimensional block-shape rotation task, a within-group speed-accuracy trade-off was found in controls, whereas faster individuals in the aphantasia group were also more accurate. Control participants generally favoured using object-based mental rotation strategies, whereas those with aphantasia favoured analytic strategies. These results suggest that visual imagery is not crucial for successful performance in classical mental rotation tasks, as alternative strategies can be effectively utilised in the absence of holistic mental representations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103694"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810024000618/pdfft?md5=a2a0a0790233865847c767ea2ba2c07e&pid=1-s2.0-S1053810024000618-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140632589","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":"Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean","authors":"Fabian Kiepe, Guido Hesselmann","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103684","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To what degree human cognition is influenced by subliminal stimuli is a controversial empirical question. One striking example was reported by Linser and Goschke (2007): participants overestimated how much control they had over objectively uncontrollable stimuli when masked congruent primes were presented immediately before the action. Critically, however, unawareness of the masked primes was established by post hoc data selection. In our preregistered study we sought to explore these findings while adjusting prime visibility based on individual thresholds, so that each participant underwent both visible and non-visible conditions. In experiment 1, N = 39 participants engaged in a control judgement task: following the presentation of a semantic prime, they freely selected between two keys, which triggered the appearance of a colored circle. The color of the circles, however, was independent of the key-press. Subsequently, participants assessed their perceived control over the circle’s color, based on their key-presses, via a rating scale that ranged from 0 % (no control) to 100 % (complete control). Contrary to Linser and Goschke (2007)'s findings, this experiment demonstrated that predictive information influenced the experience of agency only when primes were consciously processed. In experiment 2, utilizing symbolic (arrow) primes, N = 35 participants had to rate their feeling of control over the effect-stimulus’ identity during a two-choice identification paradigm (i.e., they were instructed to press a key corresponding to a target stimulus; with a contingency between target and effect stimulus of 75 %/25 %). The results revealed no significant influence of subliminal priming on agency perceptions. In summary, this study implies that unconscious stimuli may not exert a substantial influence on the conscious experience of agency, underscoring the need for careful consideration of methodological aspects and experimental design's impact on observed phenomena.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103684"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140549782","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}
Zhonglu Zhang , Yizhu Li , Yuxin Zeng , Jiamin Deng , Qiang Xing , Jing Luo
{"title":"The involvement of decomposition and composition processes in restructuring during problem solving","authors":"Zhonglu Zhang , Yizhu Li , Yuxin Zeng , Jiamin Deng , Qiang Xing , Jing Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103685","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Decomposition of chunks has been widely accepted as a critical proxy of restructuring, but the role of composition in forming new representations has been largely neglected. This study aims to investigate the roles of both decomposition and composition processes in chunk restructuring, as well as their relationships with “aha” experiences during problem-solving. Participants were asked to move a part of a character to another character to create two new characters. Across three experiments, the characters to be decomposed or composed were varied in terms of tight or loose chunks. The results showed that decomposition or composition of tight chunks led to lower success rates, longer response times, and significantly stronger “Aha!” emotional experiences (mainly in terms of surprise and suddenness). This study provides evidence for the contribution of both decomposition and composition processes to restructuring in creative insight.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103685"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140540747","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":"Aphantasia and involuntary imagery","authors":"Raquel Krempel , Merlin Monzel","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103679","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Aphantasia is a condition that is often characterized as the impaired ability to create <em>voluntary</em> mental images. Aphantasia is assumed to selectively affect voluntary imagery mainly because even though aphantasics report being unable to visualize something at will, many report having visual dreams. We argue that this common characterization of aphantasia is incorrect. Studies on aphantasia are often not clear about whether they are assessing voluntary or involuntary imagery, but some studies show that several forms of involuntary imagery are also affected in aphantasia (including imagery in dreams). We also raise problems for two attempts to show that involuntary images are preserved in aphantasia. In addition, we report the results of a study about afterimages in aphantasia, which suggest that these tend to be less intense in aphantasics than in controls. Involuntary imagery is often treated as a unitary kind that is either present or absent in aphantasia. We suggest that this approach is mistaken and that we should look at different types of involuntary imagery case by case. Doing so reveals no evidence of preserved involuntary imagery in aphantasia. We suggest that a broader characterization of aphantasia, as a deficit in forming mental imagery, whether voluntary or not, is more appropriate. Characterizing aphantasia as a volitional deficit is likely to lead researchers to give incorrect explanations for aphantasia, and to look for the wrong mechanisms underlying it.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103679"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140339884","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":"Task relevance alters the effect of emotion on congruency judgments during action understanding","authors":"Yiheng Chen , Qiwei Zhao , Yueyi Ding , Yingzhi Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103682","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The congruency judgments in action understanding helps individuals make timely adjustments to unexpected occurrence, and this process may be influenced by emotion. Previous research has showed contradictory effect of emotion on conflict processing, possibly due to the degree of relevance between emotion and task. However, to date, no study has systematically manipulated the relevance to explore how emotion affects congruency judgments in action understanding. We employed a cue-target paradigm and controlled the way emotional stimuli were presented on the target interface, setting up three experiments: emotion served as task-irrelevant distractor, task-irrelevant target and task-relevant target. The results showed that when emotion was irrelevant to the task, it impaired congruency judgements performance, regardless of a distractor or a target, while task-relevant emotion facilitated this process. These findings indicate that the impact of emotion on congruency judgements during action understanding depends on the degree of emotion-task relevance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103682"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140327772","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}
Maria Arioli , Chiara Ferrari , Lotfi B. Merabet , Zaira Cattaneo
{"title":"Direct reciprocity and reputation shape trust decisions similarly in blind and sighted individuals","authors":"Maria Arioli , Chiara Ferrari , Lotfi B. Merabet , Zaira Cattaneo","doi":"10.1016/j.concog.2024.103683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103683","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study addresses the effects of blindness on trust. Using an auditory version of the multi-round Trust Game, we investigated the effect of reputation and reciprocity on trust decisions in early blind and sighted participants. During each round of the game, participants were endowed with a sum of money and had to decide how much they wanted to invest in their partners, who were manipulated as a function of their good or bad reputation and individualistic or cooperative behavior. The data showed that negative first impression about the partner (bad reputation and/or selfish behavior) impacted more blind participants than sighted ones. However, following repeated interactions with the partners, the overall mean investment aligned between the blind and sighted groups. We interpret these findings as suggesting that blindness may guide participants to a more cautionary behavior when dealing with partners with negative initial characteristics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51358,"journal":{"name":"Consciousness and Cognition","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103683"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810024000503/pdfft?md5=5e33a70cbdd9fa43e2ad1d2bac5574a4&pid=1-s2.0-S1053810024000503-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140309737","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}