Consciousness and Cognition

Papers
(The median citation count of Consciousness and Cognition is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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A developmental perspective on mind wandering and its relation to goal-directed thought105
Metacognition bridges experiences and beliefs in sense of agency46
Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition36
Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundaries33
The self and its internal thought: In search for a psychological baseline31
Low working memory reduces the use of mental contrasting28
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision25
Clarifying the effect of facial emotional expression on inattentional blindness25
Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience24
On no man’s land: Subjective experiences during unresponsive and responsive sedative states induced by four different anesthetic agents23
When did it happen? Verbal information about causal relations affects time estimation23
Perception of eye contact, self-referential thinking and age21
Mapping the pre-reflective experience of “self” to the brain - An ERP study21
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Prime-induced illusion of control: The influence of unconscious priming on self-initiated actions and the role of regression to the mean20
The feeling of the passage of time linked to individual interoceptive awareness abilities20
Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences19
Judgments of effort and associated cues are influenced by stimulus context18
Immersive exposure to simulated visual hallucinations modulates high-level human cognition18
Can hypnotic susceptibility be explained by bifactor models? Structural equation modeling of the Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility – Form A17
Provoking lucid dreams at home with sensory cues paired with pre-sleep cognitive training17
Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness17
Neuroelectrophysiological alteration associated with cognitive flexibility after 24 h sleep deprivation in adolescents17
Implicit visuospatial sequence representations are accessible in both the practice and the transfer hand17
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Spontaneous alpha-band amplitude predicts subjective visibility but not discrimination accuracy during high-level perception16
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnosis: Disentangling the effect of induction and suggestion16
Continuous tracking of effort and confidence while listening to speech-in-noise in young and older adults15
Self-reported vividness of tactile imagery for object properties and body regions: An exploratory study15
Mind wandering probes as a source of mind wandering depends on attention control demands14
Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams14
Goal characteristics predict the occurrence of goal-related events through belief in future occurrence13
More than fulfilled expectations: An electrophysiological investigation of varying cause-effect relationships and schizotypal personality traits as related to the sense of agency13
Distinctive features of experiential time: Duration, speed and event density12
Semantic memory and associative ability as predictors of divergent thinking and visual artistic creativity: An expert-novice comparison12
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Dynamics of spontaneous thoughts: Exploration, attentional profile and the segmentation of the stream of thoughts12
Suppressing memory associations impacts decision-making preference: Evidence from the think/no-think paradigm12
How mortality awareness regulates intertemporal Choice: A joint effect of endpoint reminder and retrospective episodic thinking12
Is visual metacognition associated with autistic traits? A regression analysis shows no link between visual metacognition and Autism-Spectrum Quotient scores11
How “diagnostic” criteria interact to shape synesthetic behavior: The role of self-report and test–retest consistency in synesthesia research11
Is the temporal binding effect in the Libet clock-task based in spatial working memory? A correlational and a dual-task approach11
Can masked gaze and arrow stimuli elicit overt orienting of attention? A registered report11
Proactive control: Endogenous cueing effects in a two-target attentional blink task11
Doubting the double-blind: Introducing a questionnaire for awareness of experimental purposes in neurofeedback studies11
What is it like to do a visuo-spatial working memory task: A qualitative phenomenological study of the visual span task11
Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces10
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How do irrelevant stimuli from another modality influence responses to the targets in a same-different task10
“Invisible Dangers”: Unconscious processing of angry vs fearful faces and its relationship to subjective anger10
High confidence and low accuracy in redundancy masking10
Olfactory metacognition and memory in individuals with different subjective odor imagery abilities10
Retraction notice to “Meditation-induced states predict attentional control over time“ [Conscious. Cogn. 37 (2015) 57–62]10
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How hypnotic suggestions work – A systematic review of prominent theories of hypnosis9
Finding oneself in someone else’s shoes: The role of perspective in literary texts9
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Perceptual event boundaries cause mnemonic trade-offs between temporal order memory and source Memory: The role of semantic relatedness among items9
The role of self-related information in the sense of agency9
The effect of visual perspective on episodic memory in aging: A virtual reality study9
Taxometric evidence for a dimensional latent structure of hypnotic suggestibility9
Aphantasia and autism: An investigation of mental imagery vividness9
Ignorance and moral judgment: Testing the logical priority of the epistemic8
Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance8
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Sense of agency disturbances in movement disorders: A comprehensive review8
Predictive processing and perception: What does imagining have to do with it?8
The influence of perceptual load on gaze-induced attentional orienting: The modulation of expectation8
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Tactile temporal order judgment during rubber hand illusion: Distinct modulation of the point of subjective simultaneity and temporal resolution8
Non-motor cues do not generate the perception of self-agency: A critique of cue-integration8
Is auditory awareness graded or dichotomous: Electrophysiological correlates of consciousness at different depths of stimulus processing8
The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population8
Real-world Statistical Regularity Impacts Inattentional Blindness8
Moving through time: The influence of body motion on temporal concepts of future in Chinese sighted and blind people8
Typicality modulates the visual awareness of objects8
Continuity or compensation? – A hypothesis testing study concerning two types of dreamers’ Aggressive Behaviors in Nightmares7
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Not just in sync: Relations between partners’ actions influence the sense of joint agency during joint action7
Temporal error monitoring: Monitoring of internal clock or just motor noise?7
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery7
The roles of recollection and familiarity in the positive association between dream lucidity and reality monitoring: Evidence from ERPs and EEG7
The state-trait sense of self inventory: A psychometric study of self-experience and its relation to psychosis-like manifestations7
Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects7
Action selection and simultaneously presented emotional sound and reward: Differential effects on implicit and explicit sense of agency7
The Hitchhiker’s guide to hallucination research7
The role of visual and verbal working memory in remembering the past and imagining the future7
Partial awareness during voluntary endogenous decision7
Comparing third-party responsibility with intention attribution: An fMRI investigation of moral judgment7
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Ontological conceptions of information cannot account for consciousness6
Mental rotation with colored cube figures6
Intentional binding and self-transcendence: Searching for pro-survival behavior in sense-of-agency6
Assessing tests of animal consciousness6
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Disentangling task conflict and information conflict in the Stroop task6
The role of free will beliefs in social behavior: Priority areas for future research6
Prior conscious experience modulates the impact of audiovisual temporal correspondence on unconscious visual processing6
Functions of consciousness in emotional processing6
Hypnotic predictors of agency: Responsiveness to specific suggestions in hypnosis is associated with involuntariness in fibromyalgia6
Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception6
The feeling of the passage of time against the time of the external clock6
The misjudgment of interoceptive awareness: Systematic overrating of interoceptive awareness among individuals with lower interoceptive metacognitive skills6
The altered state of consciousness induced by Δ9-THC6
Dreaming is a conscious experience in its own right: proponents of non-cognitive and non-executive theories of dreaming suffer from a retrospective illusion of their waking extended self6
Neurophysiological features of dream recall and the phenomenology of dreams: Auditory stimulation impacts dream experiences6
The effect of context on mind-wandering in younger and older adults6
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: How temporal are episodic contents?6
A dual process model of spontaneous conscious thought6
Effects of inhibitory control capacity and cognitive load on involuntary past and future thoughts: A laboratory study6
Differences in the detail: Metacognition is better for seen than sensed changes to visual scenes6
Acetylcholine and metacognition during sleep5
The dynamics of microsaccade amplitude reflect shifting of covert attention5
When action expectation meets reward history: The interaction of proactive and reactive control during inhibitory control5
Evidence for the dependence of visual and kinesthetic motor imagery on isolated visual and motor practice5
Spontaneous mind-wandering tendencies linked to cognitive flexibility in young adults5
A tale of two architectures5
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I am not the cause of this pain: An experimental study of the cognitive processes underlying causal attribution in the unpredictable situation whether negative outcomes5
Does response inhibition occur unconsciously? A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis5
Self-prioritization effect in the attentional blink paradigm: Attention-based or familiarity-based effect?5
Induced awareness of synesthetic sensations in synesthetically predisposed “Borderline Non-synesthetes”5
Optimising episodic encoding within segmented virtual contexts5
Self-other differences in intertemporal decision making: An eye-tracking investigation5
Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy5
Freedom from what? Separating lay concepts of freedom5
Temporal binding during deliberate rule breaking5
Investigating automatic processing preference in high trait anxiety individuals: Behavioral and neuroelectrophysiological evidence5
Link between fluid/crystallized intelligence and global/local visual abilities across adulthood5
Is there a continuum of agentive awareness across physical and mental actions? The case of quasi-movements5
Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment5
Enhancing and advancing the understanding and study of dreaming and memory consolidation: Reflections, challenges, theoretical clarity, and methodological considerations5
Task relevance alters the effect of emotion on congruency judgments during action understanding5
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Open monitoring meditation alters the EEG gamma coherence in experts meditators: The expert practice exhibit greater right intra-hemispheric functional coupling5
Episodic thought distinguishes spontaneous cognition in waking from REM and NREM sleep5
Measuring motor awareness and metacognition at the start, middle, and end of a reaching movement5
Eye gaze direction modulates nonconscious affective contextual effect5
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The effect of font readability on the Moses illusion: A replication study4
I overthink—Therefore I am not: An active inference account of altered sense of self and agency in depersonalisation disorder4
Semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming occurs when stimuli are presented below the threshold of awareness4
Dissociation between temporal attention and Consciousness: Unconscious temporal cue induces temporal expectation effect4
Tactile motor attention induces sensory attenuation for sounds4
Intentional binding – Is it just causal binding? A replication study of Suzuki et al. (2019)4
Neutral affordances: Task conflict in the affordances task4
Hypnotic suggestion modulates visual recognition of negative words depending on word arousal4
How can virtual reality help to understand consciousness? A thematic analysis of students’ experiences in a novel virtual environment4
Non-contingent affective outcomes influence judgments of control4
The mechanism of chunk restructuring in the memory superiority effect of Insight: Dissociating the roles of decomposition and composition4
Drawing behaviour influences ongoing thought patterns and subsequent memory4
Functional reorganization of the brain in distinct frequency bands during eyes-open meditation4
Effects of body ownership illusion during exposure to disgusting stimuli4
Does perceived voluntariness of others’ actions induce vicarious sense of agency? Evidence from human-robot interaction4
A bibliometric evaluation of the impact of theories of consciousness in academia and on social media4
Is non-synesthetes’ B Blue? Grapheme–color association improves non-synesthetes’ detection in visual search4
The sense of agency in near and far space4
The impact of feedback on metacognition: Enhancing in easy tasks, impeding in difficult ones4
Sense of agency as synecdoche: Multiple neurobiological mechanisms may underlie the phenomenon summarized as sense of agency4
Developmentally enhanced visual reliability reduces susceptibility to the sound-induced flash illusion: Evidence from bayesian causal inference4
Enriched category as a model of qualia structure based on similarity judgements4
Vicarious ostracism reduces observers’ sense of agency4
People with jumping to conclusions bias tend to make context-independent decisions rather than context-dependent decisions4
Long-term exercise training reduced the sound-induced flash illusion in multisensory illusions owing to the cerebellum4
Body ownership and kinaesthetic illusions: Dissociated bodily experiences for distinct levels of body consciousness?3
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Punishing temporal judgement boosts sense of agency and modulates its underlying neural correlates3
Augmenting perception: How artificial intelligence transforms sensory substitution3
Conscious interpretation: A distinct aspect for the neural markers of the contents of consciousness3
Properties of imagined experience across visual, auditory, and other sensory modalities3
Sense of ownership influence on tactile perception: Is the predictive coding account valid for the somatic rubber hand Illusion?3
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A tentative I/O curve with consciousness: Effects of multiple simultaneous ambiguous figures presentation on perceptual reversals and time estimation3
Sleeping poorly is robustly associated with a tendency to engage in spontaneous waking thought3
Corrigendum to “Gradedness of visual awareness depends on attentional scope: Global perception is more graded than local perception” [Conscious. Cogn. 94 (2021) 103174]3
Is this my foot? Experimentally induced disownership in individuals with body integrity dysphoria3
Exploring the role of interoception in autobiographical memory recollection3
Differential influence of first- vs. third-person visual perspectives on segmentation and memory of complex dynamic events3
The vividness of visualisations and autistic trait expression are not strongly associated3
A systematic review investigating the link between social cognition and self-awareness in adults3
Self-caught methodologies for measuring mind wandering with meta-awareness: A systematic review3
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Patterns of ongoing thought in the real world3
Age differences in priming as a function of processing at encoding3
Dissociation between dreams and wakefulness: Insights from body and action representations of rare individuals with massive somatosensory deafferentation3
Categorical tonality perception modulates crossmodal correspondences between musical chords and colors3
Slower but more accurate mental rotation performance in aphantasia linked to differences in cognitive strategies3
Inattentional blindness: Attentional set for efficient task success3
Why is mindfulness helpful? Exploration of the flexibility of cortical control in practitioners of Buddhism3
The model of the brain as a complex system: Interactions of physical, neural and mental states with neurocognitive functions3
Towards a structural turn in consciousness science3
Rumination, emotional intensity and emotional clarity3
Priming of natural scene categorization during continuous flash suppression3
The involvement of decomposition and composition processes in restructuring during problem solving3
Experience after Floatation-REST: Relaxation during floating mediates the afterglow effect3
ERP signatures of auditory awareness in cross-modal distractor-induced deafness3
Beyond mind wandering: Performance variability and neural activity during off-task thought and other attention lapses3
Large language models have divergent effects on self-perceptions of mind and the attributes considered uniquely human3
Cognitive flexibility moderates the relationship between openness-to-experience and perceptual reversals of Necker cube3
Corrigendum to “Is dream recall underestimated by retrospective measures and enhanced by keeping a logbook? A review” [Conscious. Cogn. 33 (2015) 364–374]3
Influence of emotional stimuli on metacognition: A study in arithmetic3
Direct reciprocity and reputation shape trust decisions similarly in blind and sighted individuals2
The functional contributions of consciousness2
Body ownership and vicarious Agency: Behavioural consequences in a virtual reality rock concert2
Word recall process and physiological activation in the tip-of-the-tongue state: Comparison of young and middle-aged groups2
Aphantasia does not affect veridical and false memory: Evidence from the DRM paradigm2
Implicitly learned bias impacts decision-making but not metacognition2
Optimised Multi-Channel Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (MtDCS) Reveals Differential Involvement of the Right-Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex (rVLPFC) and Insular Complex in those Predisposed 2
States of mind: Towards a common classification of mental states2
Free will strikes back: Steady-state movement-related cortical potentials are modulated by cognitive control2
Dual counterstream architecture may support separation between vision and predictions2
Confidence for intrusion errors during the attentional blink depends on target-defining features2
Emotion regulation: The role of hypnotizability and interoception2
Further unpacking individual differences in mind wandering: The role of emotional valence and awareness2
The third-person perspective full-body illusion induced by visual-tactile stimulation in virtual reality for stroke patients2
Hotspots in the immediate aftermath of trauma – Mental imagery of worst moments highlighting time, space and motion2
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Congenital lack and extraordinary ability in object and spatial imagery: An investigation on sub-types of aphantasia and hyperphantasia2
Differentiating dreaming and waking reports with automatic text analysis and Support Vector Machines2
Private speech improves cognitive performance in young adults2
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Physical effort modulates perceptual awareness judgment independent of level of processing2
Aphantasia within the framework of neurodivergence: Some preliminary data and the curse of the confidence gap2
The linear impact of visual working memory load on visual awareness: Evidence from motion-induced blindness2
Attentional load leads to distinct changes in early and late cortical processing of target visibility under visual masking2
Curiosity and reward after unsuccessful memory recall2
Stimulus-response binding and retrieval operates independently of contingency awareness: A mega-analysis2
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Corrigendum to “Visual expectations change subjective experience without changing performance” [Conscious. Cogn. 71 (2019) 59–69]2
Attention to direct gaze in young and older adulthood2
The priority state of items in visual working memory determines their influence on early visual processing2
A short mindfulness induction might increase women’s mental rotation performance2
A plank across the explanatory gap: The case of pain2
What over When in causal agency: Causal experience prioritizes outcome prediction over temporal priority2
Non-dual awareness and sensory processing in meditators: Insights from startle reflex modulation2
COVID-19 infection does not seem to affect cognition in college students2
How associative thinking influences scene perception2
Testing the modulation of self-related automatic and others-related controlled processing by chronotype and time-of-day2
Evaluating the explanatory power of the Conscious Turing Machine2
Schema-related eye movements support episodic simulation2
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