LEADER 04953oam 2200613 450 001 9910136800903321 005 20230621135634.0 010 $a9782889197712 035 $a(CKB)3710000000631113 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/50271 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000631113 100 $a20191103h20162016 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurc|#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aInner experiences $etheory, measurement, frequency, content, and functions /$fedited by: Alain Morin, Thomas M. Brinthaupt and Jason D. Runyan 210 $cFrontiers Media SA$d2016 210 1$a[Lausanne, Switzerland] :$cFrontiers Media SA,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (163 pages) $cillustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s) 225 0 $aFrontiers in Psychology 225 1 $aFrontiers Research Topics 311 08$a2889197719 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 3 $aOne fundamental topic of scientific inquiry in psychology is the study of what William James called the 'stream of consciousness', our ongoing experience of the world and ourselves from within - our inner experiences. These internal states (aka "stimulus-independent thoughts") include inner speech, mental imagery, feelings, sensory awareness, internally produced sounds or music, unsymbolized thinking, and mentalizing (thinking about others' mental states). They may occur automatically during mind-wandering (daydreaming) and resting-state episodes, and may focus on one's past, present, or future ("mental time travel" - e.g., autonoetic consciousness). Inner experiences also may take the form of intrusive or ruminative thoughts. The types, characteristics, frequency, content, and functions of inner experiences have been studied using a variety of traditional methods, among which questionnaires, thought listing procedures (i.e., open-ended self-reports), thinking aloud techniques, and daily dairies. Another approach, articulatory suppression, consists in blocking participants' use of verbal thinking while completing a given task; deficits indicate that inner speech plays a causal role in normal task completion. Various thought sampling approaches have also been developed in an effort to gather more ecologically valid data. Previous thought sampling studies have relied on beepers that signal participants to report aspects of their inner experiences at random intervals. More recent studies are exploiting smartphone technology to easily and reliably probe randomly occurring inner experiences in large samples of participants. These various measures have allowed researchers to learn some fundamental facts about inner experiences. To illustrate, it is becoming increasingly clear that prospection (future-oriented thinking) greatly depends on access to autobiographical memory (past-oriented thinking), where recollection of past scenes is used as a template to formulate plausible future scenarios. The main goal of the present Research Topic was to offer a scientific platform for the dissemination of current high-quality research pertaining to inner experiences. Although data on all forms of inner experiences were welcome, reports on recent advances in inner speech research were particularly encouraged. Here are some examples of topics of interest: (1) description and validation of new scales, inventories, questionnaires measuring any form of inner experience; (2) novel uses or improvements of existing measures of inner experiences; (3) development of new smartphone technology facilitating or broadening the use of cell phones to sample inner experiences; (4) frequency, content, and functions of various inner experience; (5) correlations between personality or cognitive variables and any aspects of inner experiences; (6) philosophical or theoretical considerations pertaining to inner experiences; and (7) inner experience changes with age. 410 0$aFrontiers research topics. 606 $aThought and thinking 606 $aSelf-consciousness (Awareness) 606 $aPsychology 610 $aTime Perception 610 $afMRI 610 $aresting state 610 $aunsymbolized thinking 610 $aself-consciousness 610 $ainner speech 610 $amind wandering 610 $aThought sampling 610 $aSelf-report scales 610 $aautobiography 615 0$aThought and thinking. 615 0$aSelf-consciousness (Awareness) 615 0$aPsychology. 676 $a153.42 700 $aAlain Morin$4auth$01366302 702 $aMorin$b Alain$c(Psychologist), 702 $aBrinthaupt$b Thomas M.$f1958- 702 $aRunyan$b J. D$g(Jason Douglas),$f1978- 801 0$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136800903321 996 $aInner experiences$93388758 997 $aUNINA