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Conscious and Unconscious Thought (Neuronal workspace hypothesis…
Conscious and Unconscious Thought
Cognitive Unconscious
Mental activities below awareness
Behind the scenes
Little access to cognitive processes
Must be inferred from behavior
Everyday internal process is outside awareness
Efficient and accurate often, not always
Automaticity allows for multitasking
Frees up cognitive resources
Over-reliance leads to errors
We know more than we can tell
Difficult to explain
Automatic process
Riding a bike
Driving
Speaking with proper grammar
We tell more than we know
Nisbett & Wilson
Consumer survey
Choose best from 4 identical items
For what reason?
Aware of products of cognition
Unaware of process
Seeing and reading a
Retrieving information
Neuronal workspace hypothesis
Workspace neurons link the activities of various specialized brain areas
Linking stimuli into representation
Leads to consciousness
How the brain makes conscious experience possible
Workspace makes important behaviors possible
Working memory
Generativity, creativity
Flexibility
Qualia
Subjective experience
Explain your perception of the color red
Cannot be properly understood by another
