Performance-dependent inhibition of pain by an executive working memory task

It is widely assumed that distraction reduces pain. Similarly, it is assumed that pain distracts from concurrent, unrelated cognitive processing, reducing ...

J Buhle，TD Wager - 《Pain》

Responding to negativity: How a risky tactic can serve a vigilant strategy

Regulatory focus theory distinguishes between two motivational systems—a promotion system concerned with nurturance and advancement and a prevention syste...

AA Scholer，SJ Stroessner，ET Higgins - 《Journal of Experimental Social Psychology》

Measuring consciousness: task accuracy and awareness as sigmoid functions of stimulus duration.

When consciousness is examined using subjective ratings, the extent to which processing is conscious or unconscious is often estimated by calculating task ...

K Sandberg，MB Bo，B Timmermans，... - 《Consciousness & Cognition》

How Preferences For Eager Versus Vigilant Judgment Strategies Affect Self-Serving Conclusions

People are often motivated to reach self-serving conclusions during judgment. This article examines how such self-serving judgment outcomes are influenced ...

DC Molden，ET Higgins - 《Journal of Experimental Social Psychology》

Context-specific prime-congruency effects: On the role of conscious stimulus representations for cognitive control

Recent research suggests that processing of irrelevant information can be modulated in a rapid online fashion by contextual information in the task environ...

A Heinemann，W Kunde，A Kiesel - 《Consciousness & Cognition》

Masked response priming in expert typists

In masked priming tasks responses are usually faster when prime and target require identical rather than different responses. Previous research has extensi...

A Heinemann，A Kiesel，C Pohl，... - 《Consciousness & Cognition》

Conscious and unconscious discriminations between true and false memories

When subjects give higher confidence or memory ratings to a test word in a recognition test, do they simply raise their criterion without making better dis...

J Jou - 《Consciousness & Cognition》