| Description | | - A new book describing the power of our unconscious minds
- Brings together for the first time accounts of unconscious processing from a range of research areas
- Accessibly written to appeal to students of psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy
- Includes chapters from some of the leading cognitive neuroscientists in the world
| | Can we learn without consciousness? When the eminent neuropsychologist, Lawrence Weiskrantz first coined the term 'blindsight' to describe a condition whereby a patient could demonstrate that they were aware of some object, yet insist that they were completely unaware of its existence, the response from some in the scientific community was one of extreme skepticism. Even now, there are those
who question the existence of unconscious (implicit) learning, and the topic remains one of the most actively researched and debated in psychology. In recent years evidence for unconscious processing across a range of sensory modalities have come from studies of vision, audition, memory, emotion, and action. Never before have these studies of unconscious processing in the different senses been
brought together into a single volume. In a book dedicated to Lawrence Weiskrantz, some of the leading psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists of the day explain what we know about unconscious processing in the different senses. Including contributions from, amongst others, David Milner, Jon Driver, Alan Cowey, and Ray Dolan, the book presents a state of the art account of what we now know
about 'the unconscious'. The book will provide a fascinating account for students and researchers in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy. |
Readership: Graduate level students and researchers in cognitive neuroscience, neuroscience, and philosophy
| Contents |
Preface
Introduction
List of Contributors
Setting the stage
1.
Why is blindsight blind?
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Paul Azzopardi and Alan Cowey
2.
Blindsight - putting beta on the back burner
,
Lawrence Weiskrantz
Visual perception
3.
Recovery of visual function following damage to the striate cortex in monkeys
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Tirin Moore, Hillary R. Rodman, and Charles G. Gross
4.
Colour and the cortex: wavelength processing in cortical achromatopsia
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Charles A. Heywood, Robert W. Kentridge, and ALan Cowey
5.
Disruption of visual evoked potentials following a V1 lesion: implications for blindsight
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Anling Rao, Anna C. Nobre, and Alan Cowey
6.
Is blindsight motion blind? Alan Cowey and Paul Azzopardi
Attention and memory
7.
Unconscious processing in neglect and extinction
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Jon Driver and Patrik Vuilleumier
8.
Auditory-visual spatial interactions: automatic versus intentional components
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Jean Vroomen, Paul Bertelson, and Beatrice de Gelder
9.
Scope and limits of implicit memory in amnesia
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Mieke Verfaeillie and Margaret M. Keane
10.
Attention and alerting: cognitive processes spared in blindsight
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Robert W. Kentridge and Charles A. Heywood
Emotion
11.
The amygdala and unconscious fear processing
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John Morris and Ray Dolan
12.
Covert affective cognition and affective blindsight
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Beatrice de Gelder, Jean Vroomen, and Gilles Pourtois
13.
Conscious and unconscious processing of emotional faces
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Jack van Honk and Edward H. F. de Haan
Action
14.
Direct and indirect routes to action
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A. David Milner and H. Chris Dijkerman
15.
Numbsense: a case study and implications
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Yves Rossetti, Gilles Rode, and Dominique Boisson
Reflections
16.
Postscript
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Lawrence Weiskrantz
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Beatrice De Gelder, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Tilburg University,
Edward H. F. De Haan, Psychological Laboratory, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, and
Charles A. Heywood, Department of Psychology, Science Laboratories, University of Durham
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