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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.

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Author:   Beatrice de Gelder (, Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands) ,  Edward de Haan (, Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands) ,  Charles Heywood (, Department of Psychology, Durham University) ,  Beatrice De Gelder (Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   0.776kg
ISBN:  

9780198506300

ISBN 10:   0198506309
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 November 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Section I - Setting the stage 1: Why is blindsight blind? 2: Blindsight - putting beta on the back burner Section II - Visual perception 3: Recovery of visual function following damage to the striate cortex in monkeys 4: Colour and the cortex 5: Disruption of visual evoked potentials following a V1 lesion: implications for blindsight 6: Is blindsight motion blind? Section III - Attention and memory 7: Unconscious processing in neglect and extinction 8: Auditory-visual spatial interactions: automatic versus intentional components 9: Scope and limits of implicit memory in amnesia 10: Attention and alerting: cognitive processes spared in blindsight Section IV - Emotion 11: The amygdala and unconscious fear processing 12: Covert affective cognition and affective blindsight 13: Conscious amd unconscious processing of emotional faces Section V - Action 14: Direct and indirect visual routes to action 15: Numbsense: a case study and implications Postscript - Lawrence Weiskrantz Index

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