Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
2026
Florestan Delcourt, Henry R Cowan, Jordan Sibéoni et al.
The self and its disorders in schizophrenia have been studied extensively over recent decades. Much of this literature is grounded in a bipartite understanding of the self, distinguishing the pre-reflective, minimal self from the reflective, narrative self. However, few studies have systematically examined the links between disturbances at these two levels of self. This integrative review...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
2026
Kiranpreet K Sidhu, Raymond Roy, Amedeo D'Angiulli
Where does imagination come from? How did it originate, and which organisms are capable of imagination? What deeper connections does imagination share with consciousness, survival, and the very essence of life? Across both scientific literature and public discourse, imagination is invoked to describe a wide range of phenomena, including artistic creativity, problem solving, symbolic thought,...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
2025
Mikel Jimenez, Antonio Prieto, José Antonio Hinojosa et al.
16 citations
The study of consciousness is considered by many one of the most difficult contemporary scientific endeavors and confronts several methodological and theoretical challenges. A central issue that makes the study of consciousness so challenging is that, while the rest of science is concerned with problems that can be verified from a "third person" view (i.e., objectively), the study of...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
2024
Pablo López-silva, Miguel Núñez De Prado-Gordillo, Victor Fernández-castro
4 citations
Delusions are a heterogenous transdiagnostic phenomenon with a higher prevalence in schizophrenia. One of the most fundamental debates surrounding the philosophical understanding of delusions concerns the question about the type of mental state in which reports that we label as delusional are grounded, namely, the typology problem. The formulation of potential answers for this problem seems to...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
2022
J M Fritzman, William A Rottschaefer
Rejecting the received account, which includes procedural and semantic memory, Stanley B. Klein claims that only episodic memory is genuine memory. This is so, he asserts, because only episodic memory is partly constituted by a quale, a Nagelian "what it is like" feeling of the past. However, his actual position reveals a very different set of claims about memory, one that involves a...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
March 1, 2021
Peter Langland-Hassan
Inner speech travels under many aliases: the inner voice, verbal thought, thinking in words, internal verbalization, "talking in your head," the "little voice in the head," and so on. It is both a familiar element of first-person experience and a psychological phenomenon whose complex cognitive components and distributed neural bases are increasingly well understood. There is evidence that...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
November 1, 2020
Kathryn Nave, George Deane, Mark Miller et al.
The Predictive Processing (PP) framework casts the brain as a probabilistic prediction engine that continually generates predictions of the causal structure of the world in order to construct for itself, from the top down, incoming sensory signals. Conceiving of the brain in this way has yielded incredible explanatory power, offering what many believe to be our first glimpse at a unified theory...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
July 1, 2018
Bryan Chambliss
The mind-body problem is the problem of explaining how the happenings of our mental lives are related to physical states, events and processes. Proposed solutions to the problem vary by whether and how they endorse physicalism, the claim that mental states are ultimately "nothing over and above" physical states, and by how they understand the interactions between mental and physical states....
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
November 1, 2014
Justin Sytsma
17 citations
Many philosophers and brain scientists hold that explaining consciousness is one of the major outstanding problems facing modern science today. One type of consciousness in particular-phenomenal consciousness-is thought to be especially problematic. The reasons given for believing that this phenomenon exists in the first place, however, often hinge on the claim that its existence is simply...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
September 1, 2013
Carolyn A. Ristau
Cognitive Ethology, the field initiated by Donald R Griffin, was defined by him as the study of the mental experiences of animals as they behave in their natural environment in the course of their normal lives. It encompasses both the problems defined by Chalmers as the 'hard' problem of consciousness, phenomenological experience, and the 'easy' problems, the phenomena that appear to be...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
May 1, 2012
Andrew Melnyk
3 citations
Materialism is nearly universally assumed by cognitive scientists. Intuitively, materialism says that a person's mental states are nothing over and above his or her material states, while dualism denies this. Philosophers have introduced concepts (e.g., realization and supervenience) to assist in formulating the theses of materialism and dualism with more precision, and distinguished among...