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Memorial states of awareness versus volitional control: The role of task differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Sachiko Kinoshita
Sachiko Kinoshita
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2109 sachiko.kinoshita@mq.edu.au
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Abstract

Dienes & Perner's analysis provides a clear theoretical justification for using a demonstration of volitional control as a criterion for conscious awareness. However, in memory tasks, the converse does not hold: A phenomenological awareness of a memory episode can arise involuntarily, even when the task does not require retrieval of the episode. The varying amounts of volitional retrieval required by different memory tasks need to be recognized.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 772
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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