Experiment 1 reexamined in detail conscious experiences in Ganzfeld situations with homogeneous light (red, green, or blue). Subjects were instructed to report everything, including phenomena attributed to the external world (colour, brightness, space) ...
Phenomenal experience: A fundamental problem for psychology and the neurosciencesAbstract. In the present article, we try to show in which specific sense consciousness represents a problem for which psychology and the neurosciences have no theoretical ...
Abstract This paper integrates recent brain event-related potential (ERP) data within a functional systems framework. Atripartite division of the brain into cognitive, motoric, and affective/somatic functional systems is proposed. Each functional system ...
Following brain damage, information processing and consciousness can break down. This phenomenon is termed dissociation between preserved implicit (nonconscious) knowledge and impaired explicit (conscious) knowledge. Examples of the implicit/explicit ...
The two experiments presented in this paper examine the effects of strategies and interference tasks on odor recognition. In the first experiment (an extension of Lyman and McDaniel's study from 1986), participants were asked to smell 30 odors and to ...
The study of visual processing and abnormalities due to lesions of cortical structures sheds light on visual awareness/consciousness and may help us to better understand consciousness. We report on clinical observations and psychophysical testing of ...
Recent evidence has suggested that functional neuroimaging may play a crucial role in assessing residual cognition and awareness in brain injury survivors. In particular, brain insults that compromise the patient’s ability to produce motor output may ...
Frequency-domain techniques describe oscillations as a fundamental behavior of neurons and brain signals. Oscillations synchronize over large portions of cortex and mediate in the spatiotemporally coherent activation of neuron assemblies required for ...
The vegetative state is characterized by the absence of awareness, voluntary or otherwise purposeful behavioral responses to external stimuli, and communication in the severely brain damaged. It is thought to result from an anatomical/functional ...
Neuromotor rehabilitation, typically seen with stroke patients, is usually mistakenly focused on the recovery of movements while disregarding the insufficient or missing awareness of the affected part of the body. Thus, the functional recovery of ...
Over 20 years ago, Watt and Hameroff (1987) suggested that consciousness may be described as a manifestation of deterministic chaos in the brain/mind. To analyze EEG-signal complexity, we used Higuchi’s fractal dimension in time domain and symbolic ...
A series of vignette examples taken from psychological research on motivation, emotion, decision making, and attitudes illustrates how the influence of unconscious processes is often measured in a range of different behaviors. However, the selected ...
Abstract. The self has become a prominent field of research in psychology but despite its eminent first-person character, it is typically studied from a third-person perspective. Such a third-person approach is well suited to enquire into ...
Abstract. This article phenomenologically contrasts the experience of sensations and concepts as two forms of psychological awareness of non-psychological content. While the contents of sensations inform us about physical states and ...
After outlining why the notion of conscious control of action matters to us and after distinguishing different challenges to that notion, the contribution focuses on the challenge posed by the literature on unconscious goal pursuit. Based on a conceptual ...
Mining conditions in Brazil tend to be viewed as extremely insecure. Insecurity is a situation in which potential risks that already exist directly affect people’s lives and make them vulnerable to a number of ...