Journal ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · November 2024
Ever since Tulving's influential 1985 article 'Memory and consciousness', it has become traditional to think of autonoetic consciousness as necessary for episodic memory. This paper questions this claim. Specifically, it argues that the construct of autono ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleJ Exp Psychol Gen · August 2024
Counterfactual theories propose that people's capacity for causal judgment depends on their ability to consider alternative possibilities: The lightning strike caused the forest fire because had it not struck, the forest fire would not have ensued. To acco ...
Full textLink to itemCite
Journal ArticlePhys Life Rev · July 2024
Functional connectivity is conventionally defined by measuring the similarity between brain signals from two regions. The technique has become widely adopted in the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, where it has provided cognit ...
Full textLink to itemCite
Journal ArticleScientific reports · May 2024
Episodic counterfactual thinking (eCFT) is the process of mentally simulating alternate versions of experiences, which confers new phenomenological properties to the original memory and may be a useful therapeutic target for trait anxiety. However, it rema ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleActa psychologica · April 2024
According to theoretical work on epistemic injustice, baseless discrediting of the knowledge of people with marginalized social identities is a central driver of prejudice and discrimination. Discrediting of knowledge may sometimes be subtle, but it is per ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognitive science · March 2024
How do people evaluate causal relationships? Do they just consider what actually happened, or do they also consider what could have counterfactually happened? Using eye tracking and Gaussian process modeling, we investigated how people mentally simulated p ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleHippocampus · January 2024
Episodic counterfactual thinking (ECT) consists of imagining alternative outcomes to past personal events. Previous research has shown that ECT shares common neural substrates with episodic future thinking (EFT): our ability to imagine possible future even ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognition · January 2024
Research on gaze control has long shown that increased visual-cognitive processing demands in scene viewing are associated with longer fixation durations. More recently, though, longer durations have also been linked to mind wandering, a perceptually decou ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences · November 2023
Barzykowski and Moulin suggest that déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories recruit similar retrieval processes. Here, we invite the authors to clarify three issues: (1) What mechanism prevents déjà vu to happen more frequently? (2) What is the r ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review · August 2023
To manage conflicts between temptation and commitment, people use self-control. The process model of self-control outlines different strategies for managing the onset and experience of temptation. However, little is known about the decision-making factors ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleTopics in cognitive science · June 2023
The expression "repressed memory" was introduced over 100 years ago as a theoretical term purportedly referring to an unobservable psychological entity postulated by Freud's seduction theory. That theory, however, and its hypothesized cognitive architectur ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleJournal of cognitive neuroscience · March 2023
In The Entangled Brain, Pessoa criticizes standard approaches in cognitive neuroscience in which the brain is seen as a functionally decomposable, modular system with causal operations built up hierarchically. Instead, he advocates for an emergentist persp ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General · January 2023
Third-personal judgments of blame are typically sensitive to what an agent knows and desires. However, when people act negligently, they do not know what they are doing and do not desire the outcomes of their negligence. How, then, do people attribute blam ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleNetwork neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · January 2023
Progress in scientific disciplines is accompanied by standardization of terminology. Network neuroscience, at the level of macroscale organization of the brain, is beginning to confront the challenges associated with developing a taxonomy of its fundamenta ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleSci Rep · December 22, 2022
We investigated whether prestimulus alpha-band oscillatory activity and stimulus-elicited recurrent processing interact to facilitate conscious visual perception. Participants tried to perceive a visual stimulus that was perceptually masked through object ...
Full textLink to itemCite
Journal ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · December 2022
The intrinsic functional organization of the brain changes into older adulthood. Age differences are observed at multiple spatial scales, from global reductions in modularity and segregation of distributed brain systems, to network-specific patterns of ded ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · December 2022
Episodic counterfactual thoughts (eCFT) consist of imagining alternative outcomes to past experiences. A common sub-class of eCFT-upward eCFT-involves imagining how past negative experiences could have been better, either because one could ha ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleSocial neuroscience · December 2022
Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) posits that the human mind contains modules (or "foundations") that are functionally specialized to moralize unique dimensions of the social world: Authority, Loyalty, Purity, Harm, Fairness, and Liberty. Despite this strong ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMemory (Hove, England) · October 2022
The initial waves of the coronavirus pandemic amplified feelings of depression, psychological fatigue and pessimism for the future. Past research suggests that nostalgia helps to repair negative moods by boosting current and future-oriented positive affect ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognition · June 2022
When comparing the roles of the lightning strike and the dry climate in causing the forest fire, one might think that the lightning strike is more of a cause than the dry climate, or one might think that the lightning strike completely caused the fire whil ...
Full textOpen AccessLink to itemCite
Journal ArticleMemory & cognition · April 2022
Extant research has shown that previously acquired categorical knowledge affects recognition memory, and that differences in category learning strategies impact classification accuracy. However, it is unknown whether different learning strategies also have ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMemory & cognition · April 2022
On the 50th anniversary of Tulving's introduction of the celebrated distinction between episodic and semantic memory, it seems more than fitting to revisit his proposal in light of recent conceptual and methodological advances in the field. This Special Is ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine · February 2022
The desire to engage in waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) may occur when smokers and nonsmokers conjure positive mental simulations of WTS. However, effects of these simulations on desire to smoke waterpipe tobacco and potential mediators are unexplored. Thi ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleNeuroimage Clin · 2022
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive disease characterized by widespread white matter lesions in the brain and spinal cord. In addition to well-characterized motor deficits, MS results in cognitive impairments in several domains, notably in episodic au ...
Full textLink to itemCite
Chapter · January 1, 2022
The idea that there are different kinds of memory is old. Aristotle, for instance, famously distinguished between memory and reminiscence, the former roughly corresponding to the retention of temporally based information from past events, and the latter to ...
Full textCite
ConferenceProceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022 · January 1, 2022
The human capacity for causal judgment has long been thought to depend on an ability to consider counterfactual alternatives: the lightning strike caused the forest fire because had it not struck, the forest fire would not have ensued. To accommodate psych ...
Cite
ConferenceProceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022 · January 1, 2022
There are conflicting theories about how people reason through cause and effect. A key distinction between two prominent accounts pertains to whether, in judging an event's causal relevance, people preferentially consider what actually happened (as predict ...
Cite
Journal ArticleSynthese · December 1, 2021
Multivariate pattern analysis, or MVPA, has become one of the most popular analytic methods in cognitive neuroscience. Since its inception, MVPA has been heralded as offering much more than regular univariate analyses, for—we are told—it not only can tell ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePsychology and aging · December 2021
Positions of power involving moral decision-making are often held by older adults (OAs). However, little is known about age differences in moral decision-making and the intrinsic organization of the aging brain. In this study, younger adults (YAs; n ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review · October 2021
Normative ethical theories and religious traditions offer general moral principles for people to follow. These moral principles are typically meant to be fixed and rigid, offering reliable guides for moral judgment and decision-making. In two preregistered ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognitive science · June 2021
In four studies, we investigated the role of remembering, reflecting on, and mutating personal past moral transgressions to learn from those moral mistakes and to form intentions for moral improvement. Participants reported having ruminated on their past w ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognition · April 2021
People frequently entertain counterfactual thoughts, or mental simulations about alternative ways the world could have been. But the perceived plausibility of those counterfactual thoughts varies widely. The current article interfaces research in the philo ...
Full textCite
Journal Article · February 18, 2021
When comparing the roles of the lightning strike and the dry climate in causing the forest fire, one might think that the lightning strike is more of a cause than the dry climate, or one might think that the lightning strike completely caused the fire w ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognitive science · January 2021
People more frequently select norm-violating factors, relative to norm-conforming ones, as the cause of some outcome. Until recently, this abnormal-selection effect has been studied using retrospective vignette-based paradigms. We use a novel set of video ...
Full textCite
Chapter · January 1, 2021
In the last two decades, philosophy of neuroscience has predominantly focused on explanation. Indeed, it has been argued that mechanistic models are the standards of explanatory success in neuroscience over, among other things, topological models. However, ...
Full textCite
Journal Article · 2021
The human capacity for causal judgment has long been thought to depend on an ability to consider counterfactual alternatives: the lightning strike caused the forest fire because had it not struck, the forest fire would not have ensued. To accommodate ps ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleFrontiers in psychology · January 2021
Aversive autobiographical memories sometimes prompt maladaptive emotional responses and contribute to affective dysfunction in anxiety and depression. One way to regulate the impact of such memories is to create a downward counterfactual thought-a mental s ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognition & emotion · December 2020
Counterfactual thinking (CFT), or simulating alternative versions of occurred events, is a common psychological strategy people use to process events in their lives. However, CFT is also a core component of ruminative thinking that contributes to psychopat ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePolitical Behavior · September 1, 2020
People seem more divided than ever before over social and political issues, entrenched in their existing beliefs and unwilling to change them. Empirical research on mechanisms driving this resistance to belief change has focused on a limited set of well-kn ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleNeuroImage · July 2020
Retrieving autobiographical memories induces a natural tendency to mentally simulate alternate versions of past events, either by reconstructing the perceptual details of the originally experienced perspective or the conceptual information of what actually ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleNeuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · March 2020
Aging is often accompanied by associative memory changes, although their precise nature remains unclear. This study examines how recognition of item position in the context of associative memory differs between younger and older adults. Participants studie ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMemory (Hove, England) · February 2020
There is a widespread belief that morally good traits and qualities are particularly central to psychological constructions of personal identity. People have a strong tendency to believe that they truly are morally good. We suggest that autobiographical me ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMemory & cognition · February 2020
People tend to believe that they truly are morally good, and yet they commit moral transgressions with surprising frequency in their everyday lives. To explain this phenomenon, some theorists have suggested that people remember their moral transgressions w ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePsychology of Consciousness: Theory Research, and Practice · January 1, 2020
People’s capacity to mentally simulate future events (episodic future thinking) as well as what could have occurred in the past but did not (episodic counterfactual thinking) critically depends on their capacity to retrieve episodic memories. All 3 mental ...
Full textCite
Journal Article · December 30, 2019
People more frequently select norm-violating factors, relative to norm-conforming ones, as the cause of some outcome. Until recently, this abnormal-selection effect has been studied using retrospective vignette-based paradigms. We use a novel set of vid ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences · December 12, 2019
Hoerl & McCormack (H&M) propose a two-system account of temporal cognition. We suggest that, following other classic proposals where cognitive systems are putatively independent, H&M's two-system hypothesis should, at a minimum, involve (1) a difference in ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognition · September 2019
People's causal judgments are susceptible to the action effect, whereby they judge actions to be more causal than inactions. We offer a new explanation for this effect, the counterfactual explanation: people judge actions to be more causal than inactions b ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCurrent Directions in Psychological Science · August 1, 2019
Most people believe they are morally good, and this belief plays an integral role in constructions of personal identity. Yet people commit moral transgressions with surprising frequency in everyday life. In this article, we characterize two mechanisms invo ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognition & emotion · June 2019
Episodic counterfactual thoughts (CFT) and autobiographical memories (AM) involve the reactivation and recombination of episodic memory components into mental simulations. Upon reactivation, memories become labile and prone to modification. Thus, reactivat ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePhilosophical Studies · May 1, 2019
In this paper, we focus on whether and to what extent we judge that people are responsible for the consequences of their forgetfulness. We ran a series of behavioral studies to measure judgments of responsibility for the consequences of forgetfulness. Our ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMemory & cognition · April 2019
Having positive moral traits is central to one's sense of self, and people generally are motivated to maintain a positive view of the self in the present. But it remains unclear how people foster a positive, morally good view of the self in the present. We ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePhilosophia (United States) · March 15, 2019
Many philosophers claim that ‘ought’ implies ‘can’. In light of recent empirical evidence, however, some skeptics conclude that philosophers should stop assuming the principle unconditionally. Streumer, however, does not simply assume the principle’s truth ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCurrent Directions in Psychological Science · February 1, 2019
Our tendency to engage in episodic counterfactual thinking—namely, imagining alternative ways in which past personal events could have occurred but did not—is ubiquitous. Although widely studied by cognitive and social psychologists, this autobiographicall ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePhilosophy of Science · January 1, 2019
The neural reuse framework developed primarily by Michael Anderson proposes that brain regions are involved in multiple and diverse cognitive tasks and that brain regions flexibly and dynamically interact in different combinations to carry out cognitive fu ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePhilosophical Psychology · January 1, 2019
A longstanding tradition in philosophy distinguishes between knowthatand know-how. This traditional “anti-intellectualist” view is soentrenched in folk psychology that it is often invoked in supportof an allegedly equivalent distinction between explicit an ...
Full textCite
ConferenceProceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019 · January 1, 2019
People often reason about omissions. One line of research shows that people can distinguish between the semantics of omissive causes and omissive enabling conditions: for instance, not flunking out of college enabled you (but didn't cause you) to graduate. ...
Cite
ConferenceProceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019 · January 1, 2019
Previous studies have shown that category learning affects subsequent recognition memory. However, questions remain as to how category learning affects discriminability during recognition. In this three-stage study, we employed sets of simulated flowers wi ...
Cite
Journal ArticleNeuroImage · September 2018
Counterfactual thinking (CFT) is the process of mentally simulating alternative versions of known facts. In the past decade, cognitive neuroscientists have begun to uncover the neural underpinnings of CFT, particularly episodic CFT (eCFT), which activates ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General · July 2018
Although many philosophers argue that making and revising moral decisions ought to be a matter of deliberating over reasons, the extent to which the consideration of reasons informs people's moral decisions and prompts them to change their decisions remain ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMemory & cognition · July 2018
In a recent study, Kouchaki and Gino (2016) suggest that memory for unethical actions is impaired, regardless of whether such actions are real or imagined. However, as we argue in the current study, their claim that people develop "unethical amnesia" confu ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleReview of Philosophy and Psychology · June 1, 2018
On pages 263, 265, and 266, incorrect degrees of freedom and t values were reported. The statistical conclusions are not affected by these reporting errors, but the corrected values are shown below. ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognitive science · May 2018
People sometimes explain behavior by appealing to an essentialist concept of the self, often referred to as the true self. Existing studies suggest that people tend to believe that the true self is morally virtuous; that is deep inside, every person is mot ...
Full textCite
Journal Article · March 1, 2018
In a recent paper, Kouchaki and Gino (2016) suggest that memory for unethical actions is impaired, regardless of whether such actions are real or imagined. However, as we argue in the current paper, their claim that people develop “unethical amnesia” co ...
Full textCite
Chapter · February 15, 2018
Despite Dennett's vast scholarship, he seemed to only have directly addressed the topic of memory in a relatively unknown coauthored article published in a somewhat obscure volume. The current chapter attempts to reconstruct the ideas from this old article ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences · January 2018
Three serious challenges to Mahr & Csibra's (M&C's) proposal are presented. First, we argue that the epistemic attitude that they claim is unique to remembering also applies to some forms of imaginative simulations that aren't memories. Second, we argue th ...
Full textCite
Chapter · January 1, 2018
When people jointly reminisce, they often talk about past objects, which may or may no longer exist. How can two or more people jointly refer to an object that is long gone-or at least, that is not present in their surrounding? In this chapter, I offer a t ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleTeorema · January 1, 2018
We begin by characterizing Dennett’s “homuncular functionalist” view of the mind, as described in his early work. We then contrast that view with the one outlined in From Bacteria to Bach and Back. We argue that recent changes in Dennett’s view have produc ...
Cite
Journal ArticleNeuropsychologia · November 2017
When people revisit past autobiographical events they often imagine alternative ways in which such events could have occurred. Often these episodic counterfactual thoughts (eCFT) are momentary and fleeting, but sometimes they are simulated frequently and r ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General · June 2017
People maintain a positive identity in at least two ways: They evaluate themselves more favorably than other people, and they judge themselves to be better now than they were in the past. Both strategies rely on autobiographical memories. The authors inves ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePhilosophical Explorations · May 4, 2017
The notion of cognitive system is widely used in explanations in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Traditional approaches define cognitive systems in an agent-relative way, that is, via top-down functional decomposition that assumes a cognitive agent ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleConsciousness and cognition · May 2017
Although extant evidence suggests that many neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying episodic past, future, and counterfactual thinking overlap, recent results have uncovered differences among these three processes. However, the extent to which there may ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognitive science · May 2017
Counterfactual thinking involves imagining hypothetical alternatives to reality. Philosopher David Lewis (1973, 1979) argued that people estimate the subjective plausibility that a counterfactual event might have occurred by comparing an imagined possible ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleAustralasian Journal of Philosophy · April 3, 2017
People generally accept that there is causation by omission—that the omission of some events cause some related events. But this acceptance elicits the selection problem, or the difficulty of explaining the selection of a particular omissive cause or class ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleConsciousness and cognition · February 2017
Episodic counterfactual thoughts-imagined alternative ways in which personal past events might have occurred-are frequently accompanied by intense emotions. Here, participants recollected positive and negative autobiographical memories and then generated b ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMemory & cognition · January 2017
Previous research has shown that prior knowledge structures or schemas affect recognition memory. However, since the acquisition of schemas occurs over prolonged periods of time, few paradigms allow the direct manipulation of schema acquisition to study th ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleTeoria · January 1, 2017
In the past decade, philosophical and psychological research on people's beliefs about free will and responsibility has skyrocketed. For the most part, these vignette-based studies have exclusively focused on participants' judgments of the causal history o ...
Cite
Journal ArticleIdeas y Valores · January 1, 2017
Psychiatrists often encounter patients whose symptoms include disorders or impairments of consciousness. Unfortunately, the meaning of the term consciousness is not altogether clear. This article presents a systematic review of various meanings attributed ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · December 2016
Recent evidence demonstrates remarkable overlap in the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying episodic memory, episodic future thinking, and episodic counterfactual thinking. However, the extent to which the phenomenological characteristics associated ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCognition · May 2016
Recently, psychologists have explored moral concepts including obligation, blame, and ability. While little empirical work has studied the relationships among these concepts, philosophers have widely assumed such a relationship in the principle that "ought ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences · January 2016
Neural reuse allegedly stands in stark contrast against a modular view of the brain. However, the development of unique modularity algorithms in network science has provided the means to identify functionally cooperating, specialized subsystems in a way th ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleNeuroImage · April 2015
Previous research has shown that autobiographical episodic counterfactual thinking-i.e., mental simulations about alternative ways in which one's life experiences could have occurred-engages the brain's default network (DN). However, it remains unknown whe ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleNeurobiology of learning and memory · January 2015
This article considers two recent lines of research concerned with the construction of imagined or simulated events that can provide insight into the relationship between memory and decision making. One line of research concerns episodic future thinking, w ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences · January 2015
The Integrative Memory Model offers a strong foundation upon which to build successful strategies for clinical intervention. The next challenge is to figure out which cognitive strategies are more likely to bring about successful and beneficial modificatio ...
Full textCite
Book · January 1, 2015
What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleJournal of Consciousness Studies · May 1, 2014
Epiphenomenalism holds that mental events are caused by physical events while not causing any physical effects whatsoever. The self-stultification objection is a venerable argument against epiphenomenalism according to which, if epiphenomenalism were true, ...
Cite
Journal ArticleSynthese · January 1, 2014
Misremembering is a systematic and ordinary occurrence in our daily lives. Since it is commonly assumed that the function of memory is to remember the past, misremembering is typically thought to happen because our memory system malfunctions. In this paper ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePhilosophy Compass · January 1, 2014
Memory trace was originally a philosophical term used to explain the phenomenon of remembering. Once debated by Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno of Citium, the notion seems more recently to have become the exclusive province of cognitive psychologists and neuros ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleNeuropsychologia · October 2013
Recent evidence suggests that our capacities to remember the past and to imagine what might happen in the future largely depend on the same core brain network that includes the middle temporal lobe, the posterior cingulate/retrosplenial cortex, the inferio ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePsychological science · July 2013
When people revisit previous experiences, they often engage in episodic counterfactual thinking: mental simulations of alternative ways in which personal past events could have occurred. The present study employed a novel experimental paradigm to examine t ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleReview of Philosophy and Psychology · January 1, 2013
Recent evidence suggests that if a deterministic description of the events leading up to a morally questionable action is couched in mechanistic, reductionistic, concrete and/or emotionally salient terms, people are more inclined toward compatibilism than ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleUniversitas Psychologica · January 1, 2013
The present interview offers an annotated dialogue with Dr. Daniel L. Schacter, in which we had the chance to learn about his findings, his current studies, in their implications for memory and cognition. Dr. Schacter is currently William R. Kenan, Jr. Pro ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleConsciousness and cognition · September 2012
Recent findings suggest that our capacity to imagine the future depends on our capacity to remember the past. However, the extent to which episodic memory is involved in our capacity to think about what could have happened in our past, yet did not occur (i ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleJ Int Neuropsychol Soc · September 2012
The earliest cognitive deficits observed in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) appear to center on memory tasks that require relational memory (RM), the ability to link or integrate unrelated pieces of information. RM impairments in aMCI likely refl ...
Full textLink to itemCite
Journal ArticleFrontiers in psychology · January 2012
Most research on the relationship between attention and consciousness has been limited to perception. However, perceptions are not the only kinds of mental contents of which we can be conscious. An important set of conscious states that has not received pr ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleJournal of Consciousness Studies · October 22, 2010
In a recent paper, Christopher Mole (2008) argued in favour of the view that, according to our commonsense psychology, while consciousness is necessary for attention, attention isn't necessary for consciousness. In this paper I offer an argument against th ...
Cite
Journal ArticleMind and Language · June 1, 2010
Recent experimental research has revealed surprising patterns in people's intuitions about free will and moral responsibility. One limitation of this research, however, is that it has been conducted exclusively on people from Western cultures. The present ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · January 2010
For the past three decades there has been a substantial amount of scientific evidence supporting the view that attention is necessary and sufficient for perceptual representations to become conscious (i.e., for there to be something that it is like to expe ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleEthical Theory and Moral Practice · November 1, 2009
Some theorists think that the more we get to know about the neural underpinnings of our behaviors, the less likely we will be to hold people responsible for their actions. This intuition has driven some to suspect that as neuroscience gains insight into th ...
Full textCite
