One way to understand a system is to explore how its behaviour degrades when it is overloaded. This approach can be applied to understanding conscious perception by presenting stimuli in rapid succession in the 'same' perceptual event/moment. In previous work, we have identified a striking dissociation during the perceptual moment, between what is encoded into working memory [Lag-1 sparing in...
Aesthetic experience is a variety of consciousness, and the exploration of consciousness has exploded in the last thirty years. How does aesthetic experience fit into the larger picture? The chapter reviews the fortunes of consciousness as an object of study across the past century; various contemporary perspectives on consciousness; and the different dimensions and levels of consciousness. The...
Abstract This chapter advances a definition of empathy as *other‐focussed personal imagining,* a definition which at once distinguishes empathy from various lower‐level phenomena such as affective mimicry and emotional contagion, and specifies the relationship between such processes and fully‐fledged empathy. This account of empathy is then contextualized and developed further in relation to...