Unconscious high-level information processing: Implication for neurobiological theories of consciousness

Neuroscientist

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 287-301

  Van Gaal, Simon ^a,b,c   Lamme, Victor A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c NeuroSpin   (France)

Author keywords

cognitive control; consciousness; feedforward sweep; recurrent processing; unconscious processes

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROBIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84861814605     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858411404079     Document Type: Review

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