Conscious and unconscious context-specific cognitive control

Conscious and unconscious context-specific cognitive control

A key feature of the human cognitive system is its ability to deal with an ever-changing environment. One prototypical example is the observation that we adjust our information processing depending on the conflict-likelihood of a context (context-specific proportion congruency effect, CSPC, Crump etal., 2006). Recently, empirical studies started to question the role of consciousness in these st...

Embodied Intelligent Agents with Cognitive Conscious and Unconscious Reasoning

The CIVS (Civilization-Inspired Vying Societies) system is a novel evolutionary learning multi-agent system that uses artificial life methods to produce highly-capable artificial intelligence agents proficient in one or more complex tasks as well as more general adaptability, reasoning, and survivability in dynamic, unpredictable environments. A new cognitive architecture called CHARISMA is bei...

Neuro - Cognitive Mechanisms of Conscious and Unconscious Visual Perception

Unconscious vision and executive control: how unconscious processing and conscious action control interact.

Research on unconscious or unaware vision has demonstrated that unconscious processing can be flexibly adapted to the current goals of human agents. The present review focuses on one area of research, masked visual priming. This method uses visual stimuli presented in a temporal sequence to lower the visibility of one of these stimuli. In this way, a stimulus can be masked and even rendered inv...

Conscious and Unconscious Perception

Contrasting the properties of conscious and unconscious processes is crucial for understanding how consciousness occurs in the brain. In this chapter, we review the theoretical framework and empirical methods used to delineate and contrast conscious vs. unconscious perception. After outlining the main approaches to measure unconscious influences on brain and behavior, we describe some of the ps...