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Language facilitates introspection: Verbal mind-wandering has privileged access to consciousness

Mikaël Bastian1, Sébastien Lerique2, Vincent Adam3

  • 1Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Département d'Études Cognitives de l'École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 75005 Paris, France; EA 2114, Psychologie des Ages de la vie, Francois Rabelais University, Tours, France.

Consciousness and Cognition
|February 6, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
AttentionConsciousnessInner speechMeta-awarenessMind-wanderingVerbal working memory

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