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What about consciousness during learning?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Annie Vinter
Affiliation:
L.E.A.D., CNRS 5022, Faculty of Sciences, 21000 Dijon, [email protected]
Pierre Perruchet
Affiliation:
L.E.A.D., CNRS 5022, Faculty of Sciences, 21000 Dijon, [email protected]

Abstract

Though we fully agree that unconscious processing produces explicit representations that form the conscious phenomenal experience of the subject, identifying phenomenal experience with stable patterns of activation in a PDP network seriously limits O'Brien & Opie's thesis. They fail to recognize the constructive role of consciousness during the learning episode itself, reducing consciousness to a resulting outcome of the learning episode. We illustrate how consciousness can guide and shape the formation of increasingly structured representations of the world by presenting a brief outline of a model for speech segmentation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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