Inner experience in the scanner
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Inner experience in the scanner : can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI? / Kühn, Simone; Fernyhough, Charles; Alderson-Day, Benjamin; Hurlburt, Russell T.
In: FRONT PSYCHOL, Vol. 5, 2014, p. 1393.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Inner experience in the scanner
T2 - can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?
AU - Kühn, Simone
AU - Fernyhough, Charles
AU - Alderson-Day, Benjamin
AU - Hurlburt, Russell T
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - To provide full accounts of human experience and behavior, research in cognitive neuroscience must be linked to inner experience, but introspective reports of inner experience have often been found to be unreliable. The present case study aimed at providing proof of principle that introspection using one method, descriptive experience sampling (DES), can be reliably integrated with fMRI. A participant was trained in the DES method, followed by nine sessions of sampling within an MRI scanner. During moments where the DES interview revealed ongoing inner speaking, fMRI data reliably showed activation in classic speech processing areas including left inferior frontal gyrus. Further, the fMRI data validated the participant's DES observations of the experiential distinction between inner speaking and innerly hearing her own voice. These results highlight the precision and validity of the DES method as a technique of exploring inner experience and the utility of combining such methods with fMRI.
AB - To provide full accounts of human experience and behavior, research in cognitive neuroscience must be linked to inner experience, but introspective reports of inner experience have often been found to be unreliable. The present case study aimed at providing proof of principle that introspection using one method, descriptive experience sampling (DES), can be reliably integrated with fMRI. A participant was trained in the DES method, followed by nine sessions of sampling within an MRI scanner. During moments where the DES interview revealed ongoing inner speaking, fMRI data reliably showed activation in classic speech processing areas including left inferior frontal gyrus. Further, the fMRI data validated the participant's DES observations of the experiential distinction between inner speaking and innerly hearing her own voice. These results highlight the precision and validity of the DES method as a technique of exploring inner experience and the utility of combining such methods with fMRI.
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01393
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01393
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 25538649
VL - 5
SP - 1393
JO - FRONT PSYCHOL
JF - FRONT PSYCHOL
SN - 1664-1078
ER -