PLoS OneJune 26, 2026Sebastiano Cinetto, Hurcan Andrei Senyuva, Marco Zorzi et al.
Embodied accounts of cognition propose that bodily states shape mental representations. We test this proposal in numerical cognition by asking whether spontaneous respiration biases random number generation (RNG). Building on prior work by Belli and collaborators (2021), we adopt a self-paced handwriting RNG paradigm that preserves the continuous, cyclic nature of breathing. Healthy adults will...
A fundamental question in the study of consciousness is the connection between subjective report and objective measures. We explored this question by testing NM, a grapheme-color synesthete, who experiences colors when viewing digits but not dot patterns. Synesthesia research has traditionally used variants of the Stroop paradigm as an objective correlate of these subjective synesthetic...
AbstractOn the basis of neuropsychological evidence, it is clear that attention should be given a role in any model (or conjecture) of consciousness. What is known about the many instances of dissociation between explicit and implicit knowledge after brain damage suggests that conscious experience might not be linked to a restricted area of the brain. Even if it were true that there is a single...