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30Multiple Factors and Multiple Mechanisms Determine the Quality of Conscious Experiences: A Reply to Anzulewicz and WierzchońCognitive Science 42 (6): 2101-2103. 2018.In this Letter to the Editor, we seize the opportunity to respond to the recent comments by Anzulewicz and Wierzchoń, and further clarify and extend the scope of our original paper. We re‐emphasize that conscious experiences come in degrees, and that there are several factors that determine this degree. Endorsing the suggestions of Anzulewicz and Wierzchoń, we discuss that besides low‐level attentional mechanisms, high‐level attentional and non‐attentional mechanisms might also modulate the qual…Read more
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30Consciousness studies: The view from psychology (review)British Journal of Psychology 97 (3): 425-438. 2006.
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28On the encompassing of the behaviour of manBehavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (5): 615-616. 2003.One supposition underlying the Anderson & Lebiere target article is that the maximally broad “encompassing of its subject matter – the behavior of man” is regarded as an unquestioned quality criterion for guiding cognitive research. One might argue for an explicit specification of the limitations of a given paradigm, rather than extending it to apply to as many domains as possible
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27This article presents the view that the problem of consciousness per definition can not be seen as a strictly scientific or strictly philosophical problem. The first idea, especially, leads to important difficulties: First of all, the idea has in most cases implied some rather superficial reductionistic or functionalistic a priori assumptions, and, secondly, it can be shown that some of the most commonly used empirical methods in these regards are inadequate. Especially so in the case of c…Read more
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25Deaf hearing: Implicit discrimination of auditory content in a patient with mixed hearing lossPhilosophical Psychology 30 (1-2): 21-43. 2017.We describe a patient LS, profoundly deaf in both ears from birth, with underdeveloped superior temporal gyri. Without hearing aids, LS displays no ability to detect sounds below a fixed threshold of 60 dBs, which classifies him as clinically deaf. Under these no-hearing-aid conditions, when presented with a forced-choice paradigm in which he is asked to consciously respond, he is unable to make above-chance judgments about the presence or location of sounds. However, he is able to make above-ch…Read more
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24Early visual processing allows for selective behavior, shifts of attention, and conscious visual experience in spite of maskingConsciousness and Cognition 54 89-100. 2017.
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23Comparing theories of consciousness: Object position, not probe modality, reliably influences experience and accuracy in object recognition tasksConsciousness and Cognition 84 102990. 2020.
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15Investigating the validity of the Perceptual Awareness Scale – The effect of task-related difficulty on subjective ratingConsciousness and Cognition 95 103197. 2021.
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13Worlds apart? Testing the cultural distance hypothesis in music perception of Chinese and Western listenersCognition 235 (C): 105405. 2023.
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12Ontogenetic emergence as a criterion for theories of consciousness: Comparing GNW, SOMA, and REFCONPhilosophy and the Mind Sciences 4. 2023.In recent years increasing attention has been given to systematic comparison of theories of consciousness. Laudable practical projects have emerged in this regard, such as adversarial collaboration and the development of databases lending themselves to comparisons of empirical support for theories. In addition to the practical advances, theoretical advances have been made, such as a list of issues a theory of consciousness must address. We propose adding the issue of the ontogenetic emergence (O…Read more
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12Editorial: Transitions between Consciousness and UnconsciousnessFrontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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9Behavioral Methods in Consciousness Research (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2015.'Behavioral Methods in Consciousness Research' is the first book of its kind, providing an overview of methods and approaches for studying consciousness. The chapters are written by leading researchers and experts who describe the methods they actually use in their own studies, along with their pitfalls, problems, and difficulties.
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9Doubting the double-blind: Introducing a questionnaire for awareness of experimental purposes in neurofeedback studiesConsciousness and Cognition 104 (C): 103381. 2022.
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8Methodological reductionism or methodological dualism? In search of a middle groundPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1-14. forthcoming.The contrasts between so-called objective and subjective measures of consciousness have been a dominating topic of discussion for decades. The debate has classically been dominated by two positions – that subjective measures may be completely or partially reduced to objective measures, and, alternatively that they must exist in parallel. I argue that many problems relate to subjective reports as they can be imprecise and vulnerable to a number of potential confounding factors. However, I also ar…Read more
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7Corrigendum to “Visual expectations change subjective experience without changing performance” [Conscious. Cogn. 71 (2019) 59–69] (review)Consciousness and Cognition 109 (C): 103479. 2023.
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6Beyond Neural Correlates of ConsciousnessRoutledge. 2020.Drawing on neuroscientific research and metacognitive theory, this ground-breaking volume examines the theoretical implications that are elicited when neural correlates of consciousness are identified. The relationship between consciousness and the brain has concerned philosophers for centuries, yet a tacit assumption in much empirically-minded consciousness research seems to be that if we can only develop a map of correlations, no further questions remain to be asked. Beyond Neural Correlates o…Read more
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2Visual experience and blindsight: A methodological reviewExperimental Brain Research 209 473-479. 2011.Blindsight is classically defined as residual visual capacity, e.g., to detect and identify visual stimuli, in the total absence of perceptual awareness following lesions to V1. However, whereas most experiments have investigated what blindsight patients can and cannot do, the literature contains several, often contradictory, remarks about remaining visual experience. This review examines closer these remarks as well as experiments that directly approach the nature of possibly spared visual expe…Read more
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Using the perceptual awareness scale (PAS)In Morten Overgaard (ed.), Behavioral Methods in Consciousness Research, Oxford University Press. 2015.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |