The omnipresent support for introspection in modern programming languages indicates the usefulness of the tool. [2, 3, 8, 9] Unfortunately, C, which is one of the most pervasive programming languages and the foundation of nearly every modern operating system, does not support introspection. I propose to bring introspection to the C language via a novel application of an old tool: the debugger. ...

The term “introspective psychology” is misleading in that it covers a variety of diverging positions on the theory and practice of introspection. From the beginning there was a basic discrepancy between the British and the German philosophic tradition, ~ 7 7 t h the former relying more exclusively on introspection than the latter. Wilhelm Wundt’s advocacy and use of introspection was extremely ...

We explored the neural mechanisms allowing humans to report the subjective onset times of conscious events. Magnetoencephalographic recordings of neural oscillations were obtained while human subjects introspected the timing of sensory, intentional, and motor events during a forced choice task. Brain activity was reconstructed with high spatio-temporal resolution. Event-time introspection was a...