The question of whether consciousness and attention are the same or different phenomena has always been controversial. In trying to find an answer to this question, two different measures for consciousness and attention were used to provide the potential for dissociating between them. Conscious awareness of either the location or the identity of the object was measured as the percentage of corr...

This essay promotes the idea that current cognitive models of mind wandering and inner speech can help us better understanding phenomenological constituents what Joyce calls “the mystery conscious” as simulated by modernist literary investigations. In our essay, we rework a model perceptual decoupling (how attention disengages from perception) peripheral awareness (the interplay focus periphery...

At any given time, a subject has a multiplicity of conscious experiences. A subject might simultaneously have visual experiences of a red book and a green tree, auditory experiences of birds singing, bodily sensations of a faint hunger and a sharp pain in the shoulder, the emotional experience of a certain melancholy, while having a stream of conscious thoughts about the nature of reality. Thes...

The search for neural correlates of consciousness (or NCCs) is arguably the cornerstone in the recent resurgence of the science of consciousness. The search poses many difficult empirical problems, but it seems to be tractable in principle, and some ingenious studies in recent years have led to considerable progress. A number of proposals have been put forward concerning the nature and location...

This paper attempts an interpretive study of Monica Ali’s use steam consciousness in her first novel Brick Lane (2003), examining the psychological connection with this technique to comprehend protagonist Nazneen’s evolutionary expedition. starts stillbirth Nazneen and by mother’s influence she learns accept fate without any question. After marriage Chanu, becomes a British immigrant embarks jo...

If an instance of conscious experience of the seemingly objective world around us could be regarded as a newly formed event memory, much as an instance of mental imagery has the content of a retrieved event memory, and if, therefore, the stream of conscious experience could be seen as evidence for ongoing formation of event memories that are linked into episodic memory sequences, then unitary c...

A continuous interaction model was proposed to explain the relationship among daydreaming, self concept and academic performance. Daydreams were hypothesized to both influence performance and attitudes and in turn be affected by performance outcomes and self concept. A second aim of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of a semantic differential scale as a method for subjects to rate their ...

in this research, accomplished consideration of fictional virtues of gabra ibrahim gabra in angle of his famous work, “research for valid mosoud” because of two cultural, social and literary progress modernism and post modernism is more obvious then his other works in form and con feat. gabra ibrahim gabra traced in this fictional work his artistic movement from modernism to post modernism in e...