scholarly journals The perception of self-agency in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes )

2011 ◽  
Vol 278 (1725) ◽  
pp. 3694-3702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takaaki Kaneko ◽  
Masaki Tomonaga
Keyword(s):  
External Environment ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Perception Of Self

The ability to distinguish actions and effects caused by oneself from events occurring in the external environment is a fundamental aspect of human cognition. Underlying such distinctions, self-monitoring processes are often assumed, in which predicted events accompanied by one's own volitional action are compared with actual events observed in the external environment. Although many studies have examined the absence or presence of a certain type of self-recognition (i.e. mirror self-recognition) in non-human animals, the underlying cognitive mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we provide, to our knowledge, the first behavioural evidence that chimpanzees can perform self/other distinction for external events on the basis of self-monitoring processes. Three chimpanzees were presented with two cursors on a computer display. One cursor was manipulated by a chimpanzee using a trackball, while the other displayed motion that had been produced previously by the same chimpanzee. Chimpanzees successfully identified which cursor they were able to control. A follow-up experiment revealed that their performance could not be explained by simple associative responses. A further experiment with one chimpanzee showed that the monitoring process occurred in both temporal and spatial dimensions. These findings indicate that chimpanzees and humans share the fundamental cognitive processes underlying the sense of being an independent agent.

Reward-Related Attentional Capture Moderates the Association between Fear-Driven Motives and Heavy Drinking

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Chang Liu ◽  
Murat Yücel ◽  
Chao Suo ◽  
Mike E. Le Pelley ◽  
Jeggan Tiego ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Drinking Motives ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Problematic Drinking ◽  
The Past ◽  
Motivational Profile

Background: To date, there has been little investigation on how motivational and cognitive mechanisms interact to influence problematic drinking behaviours. Towards this aim, the current study examined whether reward-related attentional capture is associated with reward, fear (relief), and habit drinking motives, and further, whether it interacts with these motives in relation to problematic drinking patterns. Methods: Ninety participants (mean age = 34.8 years, SD = 9.1, 54% male) who reported having consumed alcohol in the past month completed an online visual search task that measured reward-related attentional capture as well as the Habit Reward Fear Scale, a measure of drinking motives. Participants also completed measures of psychological distress, impulsivity, compulsive drinking, and consumption items of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Regression analyses examined the associations between motives for alcohol consumption and reward-related attentional capture, as well as the associations between reward-related attentional capture, motives, and their interaction, with alcohol consumption and problems. Results: Greater reward-related attentional capture was associated with greater reward motives. Further, reward-related attentional capture also interacted with fear motives in relation to alcohol consumption. Follow-up analyses showed that this interaction was driven by greater fear motives being associated with heavier drinking among those with lower reward-related attentional capture (i.e., “goal-trackers”). Conclusion: These findings have implications for understanding how cognition may interact with motives in association with problematic drinking. Specifically, the findings highlight different potential pathways to problematic drinking according to an individual’s cognitive-motivational profile and may inform tailored interventions to target profile-specific mechanisms. Finally, these findings offer support for contemporary models of addiction that view excessive goal-directed behaviour under negative affect as a critical contributor to addictive behaviours.

scholarly journals Impairment of self-monitoring: part of the endophenotypic risk for psychosis

2007 ◽  
Vol 191 (S51) ◽  
pp. s58-s62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Versmissen ◽  
Inez Myin-Germeys ◽  
Ilse Janssen ◽  
Nicolas Franck ◽  
Nicolas Georgieff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Recognition ◽  
Risk Group ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Delusional Ideation

BackgroundA disorder of self-monitoring may underlie the positive symptoms of psychosis. The cognitive mechanisms associated with these symptoms may also be detectable in individuals at risk of psychosisAimsTo investigate (a) whether patients with psychosis show impaired self-monitoring, (b) to what degree this is associated with positive symptoms, and (c) whether this is associated with liability to psychotic symptomsMethodThe sample included: individuals with a lifetime history of non-affective psychosis (n=37), a genetically defined risk group (n=41), a psychometrically defined risk group (n=40), and control group (n=49). All participants carried out an action-recognition taskResultsNumber of action – recognition errors was associated with psychosis risk (OR linear trend over 3 levels: 1.12, 95% CI 1.04–1.20) and differential error rate was associated with the degree of delusional ideation in a dose–response fashion (OR linear trend over 3 levels: 1.13, 95% CI 1.00–1.26)ConclusionsAlterations in self-monitoring are associated with psychosis with evidence of specificity for delusional ideation. In the risk state, this is expressed more as failure to recognise self-generated actions, whereas in illness failure to recognise alien sources come to the fore

scholarly journals Aromatherapy with ylang ylang for anxiety and self-esteem: a pilot study

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 492-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Rizzo Gnatta ◽  
Patricia Petrone Piason ◽  
Cristiane de Lion Botero Couto Lopes ◽  
Noemi Marisa Brunet Rogenski ◽  
Maria Júlia Paes da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Essential Oil ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Physiological Parameters ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Temperature Method ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Perception Of Self ◽  
Cutaneous Application

Objective: To verify if the use of ylang ylang essential oil by cutaneous application or inhalation alters the anxiety and self-esteem perception and physiological parameters as blood pressure and temperature. Method : A pilot study with 34 professionals from a nursing group randomized in three groups: one received the ylang ylang essential oil by cutaneous application, the second received through inhalation and the third (placebo) received the ylang ylang essence through cutaneous application. The assessment was done by an Anxiety Inventory (IDATE) and the Dela Coleta self-esteem scale, applied on baseline, after 30, 60 and 90 days and after 15 days post-intervention (follow up). Results : In the pre and post-intervention intergroup analysis, there was a significant difference in self-esteem for the three groups (p values: G1=0.014; G2=0.016; G3=0.038). There were no differences in the analysis between groups for anxiety or for physiological parameters. Conclusion : It was found significant alterations only to the intergroup perception of self-esteem for the three groups.


scholarly journals Neo-mechanistic explanatory integration for cognitive science: the problem of reduction remains

Sofia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Azevedo Leite
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Neural Processes ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
Multi Level

One of the central aims of the neo-mechanistic framework for the neural and cognitive sciences is to construct a pluralistic integration of scientific explanations, allowing for a weak explanatory autonomy of higher-level sciences, such as cognitive science. This integration involves understanding human cognition as information processing occurring in multi-level human neuro-cognitive mechanisms, explained by multi-level neuro-cognitive models. Strong explanatory neuro-cognitive reduction, however, poses a significant challenge to this pluralist ambition and the weak autonomy of cognitive science derived therefrom. Based on research in current molecular and cellular neuroscience, the framework holds that the best strategy for integrating human neuro-cognitive theories is through direct reductive explanations based on molecular and cellular neural processes. It is my aim to investigate whether the neo-mechanistic framework can meet the challenge. I argue that leading neo-mechanists offer some significant replies; however, they are not able yet to completely remove strong explanatory reductionism from their own framework.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN TEKNIK SELF-MONITORING UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PERILAKU ON-TASK PADA ANAK UNDERACHIEVER: SEBUAH STUDI KASUS

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-84
Author(s):  
Maria Dwindita ◽  
Rini Hildayani
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Single Case ◽  
The Self ◽  
Monitoring Method ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Task Behavior ◽  
Monitoring Technique ◽  
On Task Behavior ◽  
Student Age

ABSTRAKPerilaku on-task merupakan segala perilaku yang bertujuan untuk menyelesaikan tugas sehingga berperan penting dalam pencapaian akademik pada anak. Anak dengan underachiever umumnya memiliki masalah dalam menampilkan perilaku on- task. Sebaliknya, mereka cenderung untuk menampilkan perilaku off-task yang didefinisikan sebagai perilaku melakukan pekerjaan yang tidak ada hubungannya dengan tugas atau aktivitas yang sedang dijalani. Perilaku on-task dapat ditingkatkan dengan metode self-monitoring. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji efektivitas teknik self-monitoring dalam meningkatkan perilaku on-task pada anak underachiever. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian subyek tunggal A-B dengan follow-updengan partisipan penelitian adalah anak laki-laki underachiever berusia 9 tahun dengan IQ rata-rata atas yang cenderung menampilkan perilaku off-task ketika dihadapkan pada suatu tugas atau aktivitas. Penelitian ini terdiri dari 10 sesi dan hasil menunjukkan bahwa teknik self-monitoring dapat meningkatkan perilaku on-task dari 60% menjadi 90% dan efek pemberian intervensi bertahan hingga tahap follow-up.Kata kunci: on-task, self-monitoring, underachieverABSTRACTOn-task behavior refers as all behaviors that intended to complete the task, so it plays an important role for children’s academic achievement. Mostly, the underachiever children tend to have problems demonstrating on-task behavior. In the contrary, they tend to demonstrate off-task behavior that defined as all behaviorsthat isn’t intended to complete the task. On-task behavior can be increased with self-monitoring method. The aim of this research is to test the effectivity of self-monitoring techinique to increase underachiever children’s on-task behavior. This research is a single case AB with follow-up design. The participant in this research is a male underachiever student age 9 with the IQ score of above average that tend to demonstrate off task behavior while working on his school task. This research consists of 10 session and the result shows that the self-monitoring technique is effective in increasing the on-task behavior from 60% to 90%. The effect of this intervention last until the follow up sessionKeywords: on-task, self-monitoring, underachiever

Selecting is not abstracting

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 630-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stellan Ohlsson
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Matching ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Fundamental Aspect

Barsalou's hypothesis that mental representations are constructed by selecting parts of percepts encounters the same difficulties as other empiricist theories: They cannot explain concepts for which instances do not share perceptible features (e.g., furniture) or for which there are no relevant percepts (e.g., the end of time). Barsalou's attempt to reduce falsity to failed pattern matching is an elementary error, and the generativity of his simulators cannot be attained without nonterminal symbols. There is not now, and there never was, any reason to be interested in empiricist theories of knowledge. Abstraction is a fundamental aspect of human cognition.

Effect of Various Combinations of Knowledge of Results on Learning a Multi-Dimensional Task

1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 505-506
Author(s):  
Reno J. Ramella
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Motor Skill ◽  
Knowledge Of Results ◽  
Male Volunteers ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Variable Errors

20 male volunteers (M = 22.9 yr., SD = 3.8 yr.) learned a motor skill (moved a slide) with temporal and spatial dimensions. Two groups, determined by specific combinations of knowledge of results (verbal-verbal and verbal-visual) were used. Multivariate analysis and follow-up procedures indicated an over-all reduction of absolute and variable errors over 4 trial blocks for both groups.

scholarly journals Self-monitoring of Blood Pressure in Patients With Hypertension-Related Multi-morbidity: Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
J P Sheppard ◽  
K L Tucker ◽  
W J Davison ◽  
R Stevens ◽  
W Aekplakorn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Blood Pressure ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Individual Patient Data ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Patient Data ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Co Morbidity

Abstract BACKGROUND Studies have shown that self-monitoring of blood pressure (BP) is effective when combined with co-interventions, but its efficacy varies in the presence of some co-morbidities. This study examined whether self-monitoring can reduce clinic BP in patients with hypertension-related co-morbidity. METHODS A systematic review was conducted of articles published in Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Library up to January 2018. Randomized controlled trials of self-monitoring of BP were selected and individual patient data (IPD) were requested. Contributing studies were prospectively categorized by whether they examined a low/high-intensity co-intervention. Change in BP and likelihood of uncontrolled BP at 12 months were examined according to number and type of hypertension-related co-morbidity in a one-stage IPD meta-analysis. RESULTS A total of 22 trials were eligible, 16 of which were able to provide IPD for the primary outcome, including 6,522 (89%) participants with follow-up data. Self-monitoring was associated with reduced clinic systolic BP compared to usual care at 12-month follow-up, regardless of the number of hypertension-related co-morbidities (−3.12 mm Hg, [95% confidence intervals −4.78, −1.46 mm Hg]; P value for interaction with number of morbidities = 0.260). Intense interventions were more effective than low-intensity interventions in patients with obesity (P < 0.001 for all outcomes), and possibly stroke (P < 0.004 for BP control outcome only), but this effect was not observed in patients with coronary heart disease, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease. CONCLUSIONS Self-monitoring lowers BP regardless of the number of hypertension-related co-morbidities, but may only be effective in conditions such obesity or stroke when combined with high-intensity co-interventions.

Effects of Self-Monitoring and Self-Recording on Ecological Acts

1976 ◽  
Vol 38 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1285-1286
Author(s):  
Peter W. Hoon
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Time Series ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Response Prevention ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Monitoring

22 high school students enrolled in an ecology course volunteered to self-monitor and record ecological acts. Relative to baselines which appeared to be non-reactive, time-series statistical analysis indicated that only 7 (32%) showed significant increases in ecological acts. Further, only 4 (19%) sustained these increases during follow-up assessment. Self-monitoring and recording appear ineffective in changing behavior of macro-social significance. Future research may be aimed at evaluating self-applied and externally mediated consequences and response prevention.

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