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791The past, the present, and the future of future-oriented mental time travel: Editors' introductionIn Kourken Michaelian, Stanley B. Klein & Karl K. Szpunar (eds.), Seeing the Future: Theoretical Perspectives on Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-18. 2016.This introductory chapter reviews research on future-oriented mental time travel to date (the past), provides an overview of the contents of the book (the present), and enumerates some possible research directions suggested by the latter (the future).
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125Seeing the Future: Theoretical Perspectives on Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.Episodic memory is a major area of research in psychology. Initially viewed as a distinct store of information derived from experienced episodes, episodic memory is understood today as a form of mental "time travel" into the personal past. Recent research has revealed striking similarities between episodic memory - past-oriented mental time travel - and future-oriented mental time travel (FMTT). Seeing the Future: Theoretical Perspectives on Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel brings together lea…Read more
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48Decisions and the evolution of memory: Multiple systems, multiple functionsPsychological Review 109 (2): 306-329. 2002.
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81A Theory of Autobiographical Memory: Necessary Components and Disorders Resulting from their LossSocial Cognition 22 460-490. 2004.In this paper we argue that autobiographical memory can be conceptualized as a mental state resulting from the interplay of a set of psychological capacities?self-reflection, self-agency, self-ownership and personal temporality?that transform a memorial representation into an autobiographical personal experience. We first review evidence from a variety of clinical domains?for example, amnesia, autism, frontal lobe pathology, schizophrenia?showing that breakdowns in any of the proposed components…Read more
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6The two selves: their metaphysical commitments and functional independenceOxford University Press. 2014.Introductory remarks about the problem of the self -- The epistemological self : the self of neural instantiation -- The ontological self : the self of first-person subjectivity -- The epistemological and ontological selves : a brief "summing up" -- Empirical evidence and the ontological and epistemological selves -- Some final thoughts.
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50The nature of the semantic/episodic memory distinction: A missing piece of the “working through” processBehavioral and Brain Sciences 38. 2015.
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66Self-knowledge of an amnesic patient: toward a neuropsychology of personality and social psychologyJournal of Experimental Psychology: General 125 (3): 250. 1996.
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110Libet's temporal anomalies: A reassessment of the dataConsciousness and Cognition 11 (2): 198-214. 2002.Benjamin Libet compared the perceived time of direct brain stimulation to the perceived time of skin stimulation. His results are among the most controversial experiments at the interface between psychology and philosophy. The new element that I bring to this discussion is a reanalysis of Libet's raw data. Libet's original data were difficult to interpret because of the manner in which they were presented in tables. Plotting the data as psychometric functions shows that the observers have great …Read more
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37Affective reactions to facial identity in a prosopagnosic patientCognition and Emotion 22 (5): 977-983. 2008.This study probes whether a prosopagnosic patient can make accurate explicit affective judgements towards faces. Patient MJH was shown photographs of faces of well-liked family members and public figures rated as “evil” by opinion polls. MJH was asked to rate each face on two 7-point scales (Likeability and Pleasantness). Since he is unable to explicitly recognise faces, his ratings were based on his evaluative reaction to the faces presented. In a second phase of the experiment, MJH was told th…Read more
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46Shifting attention to the flash-lag effectBehavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (2): 198-199. 2008.An attention shift from a stationary to a changing object has to occur in feature space, in order to bind these stimuli into a unitary percept. This time-consuming shift leads to the perception of a changing stimulus further ahead along its trajectory. This attentional framework is able to accommodate the flash-lag effect in its multiple empirical manifestations
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71The duality of psycho-physicsIn A. Gorea (ed.), Representations of Vision, Cambridge University Press. pp. 231--249. 1991.
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90Is Quantum Mechanics Relevant To Understanding Consciousness A Review of Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose (review)PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 2. 1995.
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126Libet's research on the timing of conscious intention to act: A commentaryConsciousness and Cognition 11 (2): 273-279. 2002.S. Pockett and G. Gomes discuss a possible bias in the method by which Libet's subjects estimated the time at which they became aware of their intent to move their hands. The bias, caused by sensory delay processing the clock information, would be sufficient to alter Trevena and Miller's conclusions regarding the timing of the lateralized readiness potential. I show that the flash-lag effect would compensate for that bias. In the last part of my commentary I note that the other target articles d…Read more
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120Libet's timing of mental events: Commentary on the commentariesConsciousness and Cognition 11 (2): 326-333. 2002.This issue of Consciousness and Cognition presents four target articles and eight commentaries on the target articles. The present article presents comments on those commentaries, grouped into backward referral and volition categories. Regarding backward referral: I disagree with my fellow commentators and take the unpopular position of defending Libet's notion of backward referral. I join my fellow commentators in critiquing Libet's notion of a 500-ms delay. I examine several of the hypotheses …Read more
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25Reflections on Bruce Bridgeman’s insights into the Evolution of Consciousness and CognitionConsciousness and Cognition 64 240-248. 2018.