Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
December 6, 2018
Charles Fernyhough, Ben Alderson-Day, Russell T. Hurlburt et al.
Research into resting-state cognition has often struggled with the challenge of assessing inner experience in the resting state. We employed Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES), a method aimed at generating detailed and high-fidelity descriptions of experience, to investigate how experience in the resting state can vary between internal, external, and multiple simultaneous streams. Using a...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
June 27, 2011
Russell T. Hurlburt
A few years ago, a world-class consciousness scientist engaged me in an e-mail and telephone conversation about the exploration of inner experience. He knew of my DES work, found it interesting but problematic, and wanted to know more about it. We eventually agreed that he should wear the DES beeper and I would interview him by telephone – then he would know about the process first hand. For a...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
June 27, 2011
Russell T. Hurlburt
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon In Chapter 5, we noticed this constraint: The exploration of pristine experience has to be iterative . As we turn the screw ever more securely into the notion of faithfully apprehending experience, it's time to return to that constraint,...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
June 27, 2011
Russell T. Hurlburt
“Karen” sample 3.1. Karen was studying for her psychology test. At the moment of the beep she was seeing the words “abuse treatment,” which were experienced to be inside her head, toward the front, as if the point of view was in the back of her head and the words were projected in front of her. The words were seen in bubble letter font, all lower case, and had thin black edges as sketched in...
Advances in Consciousness Research
March 15, 2006
Russell T. Hurlburt, Christopher L. Heavey
Written for the psychologist, philosopher, and layperson interested in consciousness, Exploring Inner Experience provides a comprehensive introduction to the Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) method for obtaining accurate reports of inner experience. DES uses a beeper to cue participants to pay attention to their experience at precisely defined moments; participants are then interviewed to...