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Frontiers in Consciousness Research: Perception-Cognition Interface & Cross-Modal Experiences: Insights into Unified Consciousness

Journal Name: Frontiers in Consciousness Research: Perception-Cognition Interface & Cross-Modal Experiences: Insights into Unified Consciousness Publication Date: Not specified Submission Deadline: October 31, 2013 (Abstracts) September 30, 2014 (final papers) Traditionally cognition and conscious perception as well as its different sense modalities have been examined independently, as divided and different from each other. However, recent studies elucidating the impact of perception on cognition, but also the various ways in which conscious perceptual experiences can be penetrated and modified by cognitive states such as thoughts, beliefs, moods, desires, emotions, knowledge and memories, seem to support an alternative view. Investigations of cross-modal experiences and multimodal interactions, in which input in one sense modality elicits or modulates contents in another modality, reveal that such perceptual experiences cannot be easily categorized as belonging to o