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The Cognitive Unconscious provides an overview of fifty years of research into unconscious cognition. Its focus is on the role that unconscious processes play in perception, cognition, personality, and social processes. The book brings together some of the leading minds in the field to both summarize past research findings and highlight potential research avenues for the future.
List of contents
- I. Foundational Issues
- Chapter 1: Implicit Learning: Background, History, Theory
- Arthur S. Reber
- Chapter 2: Procedural Memory: The Role of Competitive Neurocognitive Networks Across Development
- Karolina Janacsek and Dezso Nemeth
- Chapter 3: Cognitive Neuroscience of Implicit Learning: Implications for Complex Learning and Expertise
- Y. Catherine Han, Kevin D. Schmidt, Evan Grandoit, Peigen Shu, Caelie P. McRobert, and Paul J. Reber
- Chapter 4: Implicit Cognition in the Face of Neurological Disorders: Implications for Neural Mechanisms and Evolution
- Leib Litman and Shalom Noach Jaffe
- Chapter 5: The Cognitive Unconscious in Everyday Life
- John A. Bargh
- II. Distinctions between Implicit and Explicit Functions
- Chapter 6: Implicit Learning and Language Acquisition: Three Approaches, One Phenomenon
- Patrick Rebuschat
- Chapter 7: Implicit Learning in Healthy Aging: Evidence from Probabilistic Sequence Learning
- Darlene V. Howard and James H. Howard, Jr.
- Chapter 8: Implicit Learning of Motor and Perceptual Skills
- Julia M. Schorn and Barbara J. Knowlton
- Chapter 9: IQ, Adaptive Intelligence and Unconscious Processes
- Rhianon Allen
- III. Extensions and Applications
- Chapter 10: Human Unconscious Processes in situ: The Kind of Awareness that Really Matters
- John A. Bargh and Ran R. Hassin
- Chapter 11: The Cognitive Unconscious and Dual Process Theories of Reasoning
- Wim De Neys
- Chapter 12: Implicit Learning in Primates: Insights from Comparative Research
- Benjamin Wilson and Holly E. Jenkins
- Chapter 13: The Locus of Focus and Curing the Yips
- Stephen M. Weiss and Richard S. W. Masters
- Chapter 14: From the Cognitive to the Collective: A Conceptualization of the Unconscious in Organizations
- Elisabeth Brauner
- Chapter 15: The Unexplicated and its Consequences
- Harry Collins
- Chapter 16: Belief and the Cognitive Unconscious
- James E. Alcock
- Chapter 17: Implicit Social Cognition: A Brief (and Gentle) Introduction
- Benedek Kurdi and Mahzarin R. Banaji
- Chapter 18: Implicit Learning of Emotional Structures: Implications for Cognitive-Behavior Therapies
- Razvan Jurchis, Andrei Costea, and Adrian Opre
- Chapter 19: Perspectives on the Cognitive Unconscious
- Antonio Damasio
About the author
Arthur S. Reber is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He completed his Ph.D. at Brown University under the direction of Richard Millward. His primary focus has been on implicit or unconscious learning based on principles of evolutionary biology.
Rhianon Allen is Professor Emerita at Long Island University and an Affiliate Professor at the University of British Columbia.
Summary
The Cognitive Unconscious provides an overview of fifty years of research into unconscious cognition. Its focus is on the role that unconscious processes play in perception, cognition, personality, and social processes. The book brings together some of the leading minds in the field to both summarize past research findings and highlight potential research avenues for the future.
Additional text
This book is bursting with insights into what lies below the surface of our conscious minds. We may not be privy to the cognitive unconscious directly, but this fascinating underworld (what Kahneman called System 1) actually dictates much of what we do and who we are.
