title: Transliminality correlates positively with aberrations in memory.
abstract: During the course of a larger study on sensory thresholds and transliminality, 22 men and 28 women (M = 23.1 yr., SD = 2.9) mostly composed of students selected from a snowball sampling approach completed the Revised Transliminality Scale and a brief measure of everyday aberrations in memory. Scores on the measures correlated .59 (p < .001), and this result was not due to the confounding effects of age or sex. These preliminary results are consistent with the hypothesis that transliminality involves a state of increased activation that can induce a loss of conscious experience, thereby lending support to the definition of transliminality as the tendency for psychological material to cross thresholds into or out of consciousness.
authors.affiliation: Adelaide University. rlange3726@aol.com
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Houran
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Thalbourne
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D003243:Consciousness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D012677:Sensation; D012684:Sensory Thresholds / Q000502:physiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires