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Re-representing consciousness: dissociations between experience and meta-consciousness
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A distinction is drawn between non-conscious (unexperienced), conscious (experienced), and meta-conscious (re-represented) mental processes. There is evidence for two types of dissociations between consciousness and meta-consciousness, the latter being defined as the intermittent explicit re-representation of the contents of consciousness. Temporal dissociations occur when an individual, who previously lacked meta-consciousness about the contents of consciousness, directs meta-consciousness towards those contents; for example, catching one's mind wandering during reading. Once meta-consciousness is triggered, translation dissociations can occur if the re-representation process misrepresents the original experience, such as when one verbally reflects on non-verbal experiences or takes stock of subtle or ambiguous experiences.
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“to report an experience-such as making a decision to act or seeing danger ahead -to another or to oneself, one has to both (a) have the experience and (b) know that one has the experience, which Schooler (2002) called a 're-representation'.”
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“However, there are also cases in which verbal thinking can impair performance, often involving a mismatch between the representations or types of processing that best support the task and those induced by verbal thinking (Schooler, 2002).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schooler, J. W.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schooler, Jonathan W.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2002-08
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 339-344
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1970099525
- Cited by
- 485
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 21 · 2013: 26 · 2012: 13
- FWCI
- 2.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Fetzer Institute
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Free Will and Agency
- Keywords
- meta-consciousness, consciousness, re-representation, temporal dissociation, mind wandering, subjective experience, metacognition
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