What is autonoetic consciousness? Examining what underlies subjective experience in memory and future thinking.
Cognition December 2024 Andreea Zaman, Roni Setton, Caroline Catmur et al.
Autonoetic consciousness is the awareness that an event we remember is one that we ourselves experienced. It is a defining feature of our subjective experience of remembering and imagining future events. Given its subjective nature, there is ongoing debate about how to measure it. Our goal was to develop a framework to identify cognitive markers of autonoetic consciousness. Across two studies...