Advances in Cognitive Psychology
December 1, 2018
Johannes Wagemann, Friedrich Edelhäuser, Ulrich Weger
18 citations
In view of the unresolved mind–brain problem, we examine a number of prototypical research attitudes regarding the question, how the mental and the neuronal realms are related to each other, both functionally and ontologically. By discussing neurophilosophical and neuropsychological positions, the mind–brain problem can be recast in terms of a structural relation between methodological and...
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
June 30, 2017
John F Stins, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Femke Hulzinga et al.
According to the embodied cognition perspective, cognitive systems and perceptuo-motor systems are deeply intertwined and exert a causal effect on each other. A prediction following from this idea is that cognitive activity can result in subtle changes in observable movement. In one experiment, we tested whether reading various sentences resulted in changes in postural sway. Sentences...
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
February 3, 2012
S. Trapp, Henning Schroll, Fred H Hamker
Within recent years, researchers have proposed the independence of attention and consciousness on both empirical and conceptual grounds. However, the elusive nature of these constructs complicates progress in the investigation of their interaction. We present a framework within which we conceptualize attention and consciousness in computational terms. Here, the concepts are consi-dered as...
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
2011
Markus Kiefer, Ulrich Ansorge, John–dylan Haynes et al.
52 citations
Psychological and neuroscience approaches have promoted much progress in elucidating the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie phenomenal visual awareness during the last decades. In this article, we provide an overview of the latest research investigating important phenomena in conscious and unconscious vision. We identify general principles to characterize conscious and unconscious...
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
2011
W. R. Klemm
11 citations
The brain constructs representations of what is sensed and thought about in the form of nerve impulses that propagate in circuits and network assemblies (Circuit Impulse Patterns, CIPs). CIP representations of which humans are consciously aware occur in the context of a sense of self. Thus, research on mechanisms of consciousness might benefit from a focus on how a conscious sense of self is...
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
2011
Bruno G Breitmeyer, Evelina Tapia
11 citations
Developments in visual neuroscience and neural-network modeling indicate the existence of separate pathways for the processing of form and surface attributes of a visual object. In line with prior theoretical proposals, it is assumed that the processing of form can be explicit or conscious only as or after the surface property such as color is filled in. In conjunction with extant...
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
August 30, 2010
W R Klemm
The notion that free will is an illusion has achieved such wide acceptance among philosophers and neuroscientists that it seems to be acquiring the status of dogma. Nonetheless, research in this area continues, and this review offers a new analysis of the design limitations and data interpretations of free-will experiments. This review presents 12 categories of questionable conclusions that...
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
July 15, 2008
Visual masking and the dynamics of human perception, cognition, and consciousness A century of progress, a contemporary synthesis, and future directions.
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
July 15, 2008
Stephen L Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde
This paper reviews the potential role of feedback in visual masking, for and against. Our analysis reveals constraints for feedback mecha- nisms that limit their potential role in visual masking, and in all other general brain functions. We propose a feedforward model of visual masking, and provide a hypothesis to explain the role of feedback in visual masking and visual processing in general....
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
2007
Stefan Wiens
24 citations
When people look at pictures, they usually report that they are consciously aware of the pictures. However, visual consciousness can be manipulated easily with many different methods For example, when pictures are shown in quick succession or close in space, visibility of the pictures may be reduced and thus masked As a result, participants may report that they are not consciously aware of the...