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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics

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  • The relationship between consciousness and language has been a long-standing topic of speculation.
  • Introspective awareness, or the ability to self-assess one's mental states, is a key aspect of consciousness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between subjective introspective awareness and objective measures of semantic processing.
  • To determine if self-reported awareness levels correlate with the ease of accessing semantic information, as indicated by neurophysiological responses.

Main Methods:

  • Thirty-five university students performed a lexical decision task while electrophysiological brain responses were recorded.
  • Participants provided self-assessment ratings on their levels of introspective awareness.

Main Results:

  • Moderate to strong positive correlations (Pearson's rs = 0.49–0.62) were observed between self-reported awareness and the N400 component, a neurophysiological index of semantic access ease.
  • The findings indicate a link between subjective introspection and objective measures of semantic processing.

Conclusions:

  • Subjective assessments of introspective awareness may hold greater validity than previously assumed.
  • These subjective reports may not only reflect self-perception but also interact with underlying neurophysiological mechanisms of awareness.
  • Further research is warranted to explore the role of the semantic network in the mechanisms of introspective awareness.