Publicación: Consciousness Under the Spotlight: The Problem of Measuring Subjective Experience
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2024-10-24
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Jiménez. Mikel
Prieto Lara, Antonio
Hinojosa, José Antonio
Montoro Martínez, Pedro Raúl
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Wiley
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The study of consciousness is considered by many one of the most difficult contemporary scientific endeavors and confronts several methodological and theoretical challenges. A central issue that makes the study of consciousness so challenging is that, while the rest of science is concerned with problems that can be verified from a “third person” view (i.e., objectively), the study of consciousness deals with the phenomenon of subjective experience, only accessible from a “first person” view. In the present article, we review early (starting during the late 19th century) and later efforts on measuring consciousness and its absence, focusing on the two main approaches used by researchers within the field: objective (i.e., performance based) and subjective (i.e., report based) measures of awareness. In addition, we compare the advantages and disadvantages of both types of awareness measures, evaluate them according to different methodological considerations, and discuss, among other issues, the possibility of comparing them by transforming them to a common sensitivity measure (d′). Finally, we explore several new approaches—such as Bayesian models to support the absence of awareness or new machine-learning based decoding models—as well as future challenges—such as measuring the qualia, the qualitative contents of awareness—in consciousness research.
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The registered version of this article, first published in “WIREs: Cognitive Science Vol. 16 nº1 e1697", is available online at the publisher's website: Wiley, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1697
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “WIREs: Cognitive Science Vol. 16 nº1 e1697", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Wiley, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1697
This work was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PID2021-125842NB-I00) and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (2022V/ITEMP/007).
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “WIREs: Cognitive Science Vol. 16 nº1 e1697", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Wiley, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1697
This work was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PID2021-125842NB-I00) and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (2022V/ITEMP/007).
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awareness, awareness measure, consciousness, subjective/objective awareness threshold, unconscious perception
Citación
Jimenez, M., Prieto, A., Hinojosa, J. A., & Montoro, P. R. (2024). Consciousness under the spotlight: The problem of measuring subjective experience. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, Vol. 16 nº1 e1697. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1697
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Psicología
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Psicología Básica I