Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy

Dehaene, Stanislas; Changeux, Jean Pierre; Naccache, Lionel; Sackur, Jérôme; Sergent, Claire

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.007

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“…One important temporal characteristic of phenomenal experiences is that they are constructed and updated extremely rapidly [416,417]. For example, we are able of recognizing and understanding complex images of scenery flashed briefly 56 Patients with Balint's syndrome do not see the object with all its features coherently bound together.…”

Section: Phenomenal Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Considerable experimental evidence demonstrates that switching in both mind phenomenal and brain spatial-temporal patterns is a self-organized process that takes the form of an abrupt nonequilibrium transition [43,50,93,289,290,417,444,446,450,453,[511][512][513][514]. This mechanism has been proposed to work in spontaneous thinking or "mind wondering", when there is narrative of thoughts and images, which persists without disruption.…”

Section: The Succession Of Oms and The Stream Of Consciousnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time

Fingelkurts

Neves

2010

Physics of Life Reviews

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Concepts of space and time are widely developed in physics. However, there is a considerable lack of biologically plausible theoretical frameworks that can demonstrate how space and time dimensions are implemented in the activity of the most complex life-system -the brain with a mind. Brain activity is organized both temporally and spatially, thus representing space-time in the brain. Critical analysis of recent research on the space-time organization of the brain's activity pointed to the existence of so-called operational space-time in the brain. This space-time is limited to the execution of brain operations of differing complexity. During each such brain operation a particular short-term spatio-temporal pattern of integrated activity of different brain areas emerges within related operational space-time. At the same time, to have a fully functional human brain one needs to have a subjective mental experience. Current research on the subjective mental experience offers detailed analysis of space-time organization of the mind. According to this research, subjective mental experience (subjective virtual world) has definitive spatial and temporal properties similar to many physical phenomena. Based on systematic review of the propositions and tenets of brain and mind space-time descriptions, our aim in this review essay is to explore the relations between the two. To be precise, we would like to discuss the hypothesis that via the brain operational space-time the mind subjective space-time is connected to otherwise distant physical space-time reality.Key words: spatial, temporal, consciousness, cognition, operation, architectonics, EEG, field, metastability, physics, coordinative dynamics, self-organization, cortex.

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Section: Phenomenal Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Succession Of Oms and The Stream Of Consciousnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time

Fingelkurts

Neves

2010

Physics of Life Reviews

167

233

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“…As such, they have been contrasted with unconscious, automatic information activation. According to the global neuronal workspace framework (Dehaene, Changeux, Naccache, Sackur, & Sergent, 2006), top-down strategic processes can influence unconscious processing (Merikle, Joordens, & Stolz, 1995;Naccache, Blandin, & Dehaene, 2002;Van den Bussche, Segers, & Reynvoet, 2008), but the possibility of an effect of non-conscious stimuli on cognitive control processes is not explicitly included in the model . 1 Recent findings suggest subliminal stimuli can affect high-order cognitive processes such as inhibitory control or task-setting.…”

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Unconscious task set priming with phonological and semantic tasks

Weibel

Giersch

Dehaene

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Consciousness and Cognition

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To cite this version:Sébastien Weibel, Anne Giersch, Stanislas Dehaene, Caroline Huron. Unconscious task set priming with phonological and semantic tasks.. Consciousness and Cognition, Elsevier, 2013, 22 (2) AbstractWhether unconscious stimuli can modulate the preparation of a cognitive task is still controversial. Using a backward masking paradigm, we investigated whether the modulation could be observed even if the prime was made unconscious in 100% of the trials. In two behavioral experiments, subjects were instructed to initiate a phonological or semantic task on an upcoming word, following an explicit instruction and an unconscious prime. When the SOA between prime and instruction was sufficiently long (84 ms), primes congruent with the task set instruction led to speedier responses than incongruent primes. In the other condition (36 ms), no task set priming was observed. Repetition priming had the opposite tendency, suggesting the observed task set facilitation cannot be ascribed solely to perceptual repetition priming. Our results therefore confirm that unconscious information can modulate cognitive control for currently active task sets, providing sufficient time is available before the conscious decision.

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“…In turn, control may be exercised unconsciously (e.g., Moskowitz, 2001;Moskowitz et al, 1999). These results in social psychology are largely corroborated by recent findings in cognitive psychology (e.g., Dehaene et al, 2006;Martens & Kiefer, 2009;Martens et al, 2011;Kiefer, 2007Kiefer, , 2012; in particular, cognitive factors such as attention are now believed to be implicated in both conscious and unconscious processing modes, albeit in different ways (e.g., VanRullen & Koch, 2005). Finally, highly automatized and often unconscious actions such as typing and driving a car belie the equation between automaticity and lack of intention or will: one typically engages in and performs such actions intentionally (i.e., with a goal) and willingly.…”

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Lost in dissociation: The main paradigms in unconscious cognition

Augusto

2016

Consciousness and Cognition

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Contemporary studies in unconscious cognition are essentially founded on dissociation, i.e., on how it dissociates with respect to conscious mental processes and representations. This is claimed to be in so many and diverse ways that one is often lost in dissociation. In order to reduce this state of confusion we here carry out two major tasks: based on the central distinction between cognitive processes and representations, we identify and isolate the main dissociation paradigms; we then critically analyze their key tenets and reported findings.

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Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy

Cited by 1,703 publications

References 51 publications

Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time

Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time

Unconscious task set priming with phonological and semantic tasks

Lost in dissociation: The main paradigms in unconscious cognition

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