The subjective experience of consciousness and associated psychological processes—thoughts, beliefs, ideas, intentions and more—are products of non-conscious processes, researchers say.

One source of confusion when explaining “consciousness” stems from common sense and formal accounts that frame the study of mental life. These are typically discussed in terms of a binary split ...

Includes non-conscious processes that control reflexes, innate behaviors, and habits, mostly via subcortical brain areas. System B: Cognitive But Not Conscious Behavioral Control.

Neuromarketing research helps marketers better understand consumers’ non-conscious responses to ads. Yet most of the time, this research occurs at the end of the creative process, when it is ...

If you’re thinking that the monkey in the above photo looks thoughtful, then you’d be right. A recent study has determined that monkeys have both a conscious and non-conscious mind quite like those of ...

A telltale signature of consciousness has been detected that takes us a step closer to disentangling the brain activity underlying conscious and unconscious brain processes . It turns out that ...

These findings show us that we’re not alone in the animal kingdom, vis-à-vis these two systems, and opens the way to examining consciousness and non-conscious processes in other species.” ...

I defend what I call the ‘consciousness+ hypothesis’, according to which each conscious state is an aspect of a more expansive state which has mental and non-mental aspects.

Chang and Ben-Haim shared that it is a challenge to “prove” that non-verbal animals experience conscious stimuli. However, by showing the two modes of processing exist in the monkeys, their research ...

Understanding how conscious awareness influences perception is a central question in neuroscience and psychology. The global neuronal workspace theory suggests that conscious perception emerges ...

One source of confusion when explaining “consciousness” stems from common sense and formal accounts that frame the study of mental life. These are typically discussed in terms of a binary split ...