Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory
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Signy Sheldon
Abstract
A commonly held assumption is that consciousness is a defining feature that distinguishes explicit memory (with conscious awareness) from implicit memory (without conscious awareness). Although early studies support this notion, recent evidence suggests that conscious and non-conscious memory systems may share crucial underlying processes. Here, we propose that one locus of interaction between some types of explicit and implicit memory may be the non-conscious processes associated with recollection, or detailed remembering, that are mediated by the hippocampus.
Abstract
A commonly held assumption is that consciousness is a defining feature that distinguishes explicit memory (with conscious awareness) from implicit memory (without conscious awareness). Although early studies support this notion, recent evidence suggests that conscious and non-conscious memory systems may share crucial underlying processes. Here, we propose that one locus of interaction between some types of explicit and implicit memory may be the non-conscious processes associated with recollection, or detailed remembering, that are mediated by the hippocampus.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors ix
- Prologue xiii
- Poem xxv
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Section I. Neuronal mechanisms
- The slow cortical potential hypothesis on consciousness 3
- Distinct characteristics of conscious experience are met by large-scale neuronal synchronization 17
- Gamma oscillations and the cellular components of consciousness? 29
- Dopamine modulation of decision making processes 39
- Undercurrents of consciousness 53
- Disconnecting consciousness 65
- Consciousness and neural time travel 73
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Section II. Psychological processes
- Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory 83
- Two varieties of unconscious processes 91
- Operating characteristics and awareness 103
- Noise in the brain, decision-making, determinism, free will, and consciousness 113
- Social consciousness 121
- Consciousness and language 129
- Cognitive illusions 139
- Dreaming as a model system for consciousness research 149
- Lucid dreaming and the bimodality of consciousness 155
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Section III. Psychopathologies and therapies
- Why depression feels bad 169
- Dementia and the boundary between conscious and nonconscious awareness 179
- Consciousness as the spin-off and schizophrenia as the price of language 187
- Consciousness and psychosis associated with schizophrenia 201
- The visual unconscious 215
- Believing is hearing is believing 227
- Dreaming as a physiological psychosis 239
- Conscious awareness versus optimistic beliefs in recreational Ecstasy/MDMA users 249
- Conscious and unconscious placebo responses 259
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Section IV. Expanding boundaries
- The paradoxes of creativity 271
- Potential contributions of research on meditation to the neuroscience of consciousness 281
- Self-induced altered states of consciousness 289
- Beyond the boundaries of the brain 301
- Plants of the gods and shamanic journeys 309
- Index 325
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors ix
- Prologue xiii
- Poem xxv
-
Section I. Neuronal mechanisms
- The slow cortical potential hypothesis on consciousness 3
- Distinct characteristics of conscious experience are met by large-scale neuronal synchronization 17
- Gamma oscillations and the cellular components of consciousness? 29
- Dopamine modulation of decision making processes 39
- Undercurrents of consciousness 53
- Disconnecting consciousness 65
- Consciousness and neural time travel 73
-
Section II. Psychological processes
- Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory 83
- Two varieties of unconscious processes 91
- Operating characteristics and awareness 103
- Noise in the brain, decision-making, determinism, free will, and consciousness 113
- Social consciousness 121
- Consciousness and language 129
- Cognitive illusions 139
- Dreaming as a model system for consciousness research 149
- Lucid dreaming and the bimodality of consciousness 155
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Section III. Psychopathologies and therapies
- Why depression feels bad 169
- Dementia and the boundary between conscious and nonconscious awareness 179
- Consciousness as the spin-off and schizophrenia as the price of language 187
- Consciousness and psychosis associated with schizophrenia 201
- The visual unconscious 215
- Believing is hearing is believing 227
- Dreaming as a physiological psychosis 239
- Conscious awareness versus optimistic beliefs in recreational Ecstasy/MDMA users 249
- Conscious and unconscious placebo responses 259
-
Section IV. Expanding boundaries
- The paradoxes of creativity 271
- Potential contributions of research on meditation to the neuroscience of consciousness 281
- Self-induced altered states of consciousness 289
- Beyond the boundaries of the brain 301
- Plants of the gods and shamanic journeys 309
- Index 325
