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8The science of consciousness: waking, sleeping and dreamingCambridge University Press. 2021.The Problem of Consciousness This chapter will introduce you to consciousness and its most important characteristics. We will look at definitions of consciousness, and examine what it means to say that consciousness is a private experience. We will look at the idea that it is like something to be you or me. The chapter mentions ideas and themes that will be covered in more detail in the rest of the book, and explains why the topic is an important one. Research on consciousness is big on question…Read more
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Science and PsychologyRoutledge. 2017.Test your understanding of Chapter 12 -- 13 Why are cultures that practice science better at controlling the material world than non-scientific cultures? -- (a) Structure of scientific theories -- (b) The development of the written word -- (c) The systematic testing of ideas -- (d) Different a priori assumptions about the world -- (e) Acceptance of fundamental change -- Conclusion -- Test your understanding of Chapter 13 -- Summary of Part 3: psychological constraints on scientific explanations …Read more
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2Auditory Verbal Experience and Agency in Waking, Sleep Onset, REM, and Non‐REM SleepCognitive Science 41 (3): 723-743. 2017.We present one of the first quantitative studies on auditory verbal experiences (“hearing voices”) and auditory verbal agency (inner speech, and specifically “talking to (imaginary) voices or characters”) in healthy participants across states of consciousness. Tools of quantitative linguistic analysis were used to measure participants’ implicit knowledge of auditory verbal experiences (VE) and auditory verbal agencies (VA), displayed in mentation reports from four different states. Analysis was …Read more
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6Auditory Verbal Experience and Agency in Waking, Sleep Onset, REM, and Non‐REM SleepCognitive Science 40 (7): 723-743. 2016.We present one of the first quantitative studies on auditory verbal experiences and auditory verbal agency voices or characters”) in healthy participants across states of consciousness. Tools of quantitative linguistic analysis were used to measure participants’ implicit knowledge of auditory verbal experiences and auditory verbal agencies, displayed in mentation reports from four different states. Analysis was conducted on a total of 569 mentation reports from rapid eye movement sleep, non-REM …Read more
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8Transcranial direct current stimulation of the motor cortex in waking resting state induces motor imageryConsciousness and Cognition 36 (C): 298-305. 2015.
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10Speech errors and hallucinations in schizophrenia – no difference?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3): 525-526. 1986.
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9A Critique of Top‐down Independent Levels Models of Speech Production: Evidence from Non‐plan‐Internal Speech ErrorsCognitive Science 8 (3): 191-219. 1984.
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2Will one stage and no feedback suffice in lexicalization?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1): 45-45. 1999.I examine four core aspects of WEAVER ++. The necessity for lemmas is often overstated. A model can incorporate interaction between levels without feedback connections between them. There is some evidence supporting the absence of inhibition in the model. Connectionist modelling avoids the necessity of a nondecompositional semantics apparently required by the hypernym problem
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5Content without a frame? The role of vocabulary biases in speech errorsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (4): 518-519. 1998.Constraints on the types of speech errors observed can be accounted for by a frame/content distinction, but connectionist modeling shows that they do not require this distinction. The constraints may arise instead from the statistical properties of our language, in particular, the sequential biases observed in the vocabulary. Nevertheless, there might still be a role for the frame/content distinction in syntactic planning.