Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy.

@article{citeulike:1274619, abstract = {Of the many brain events evoked by a visual stimulus, which are specifically associated with conscious perception, and which merely reflect non-conscious processing? Several recent neuroimaging studies have contrasted conscious and non-conscious visual processing, but their results appear inconsistent. Some support a correlation of conscious perception with early occipital events, others with late parieto-frontal activity. Here we attempt to make sense of these dissenting results. On the basis of the global neuronal workspace hypothesis, we propose a taxonomy that distinguishes between vigilance and access to conscious report, as well as between subliminal, preconscious and conscious processing. We suggest that these distinctions map onto different neural mechanisms, and that conscious perception is systematically associated with surges of parieto-frontal activity causing top-down amplification.}, address = {INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Service Hospitalier Fr\'{e}d\'{e}ric Joliot, Orsay, France. dehaene@shfj.cea.fr}, author = {Dehaene, S. and Changeux, J. P. and Naccache, L. and Sackur, J. and Sergent, C. }, citeulike-article-id = {1274619}, doi = {10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.007}, issn = {1364-6613}, journal = {Trends Cogn Sci}, keywords = {conscious}, month = {May}, number = {5}, pages = {204--211}, posted-at = {2007-05-03 21:18:38}, priority = {2}, title = {Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.007}, volume = {10}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1274619 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1274619 TI - Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy. JF - Trends Cogn Sci VL - 10 IS - 5 SP - 204 EP - 211 AD - INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Orsay, France. dehaene@shfj.cea.fr SN - 1364-6613 N2 - Of the many brain events evoked by a visual stimulus, which are specifically associated with conscious perception, and which merely reflect non-conscious processing? Several recent neuroimaging studies have contrasted conscious and non-conscious visual processing, but their results appear inconsistent. Some support a correlation of conscious perception with early occipital events, others with late parieto-frontal activity. Here we attempt to make sense of these dissenting results. On the basis of the global neuronal workspace hypothesis, we propose a taxonomy that distinguishes between vigilance and access to conscious report, as well as between subliminal, preconscious and conscious processing. We suggest that these distinctions map onto different neural mechanisms, and that conscious perception is systematically associated with surges of parieto-frontal activity causing top-down amplification. KW - conscious AU - Dehaene, S AU - Changeux, JP AU - Naccache, L AU - Sackur, J AU - Sergent, C PY - 2006/05// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.007 ER -