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Even “unconscious thought” is influenced by attentional mechanisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2014

Narayanan Srinivasan  and
Sumitava Mukherjee
Narayanan Srinivasan
Affiliation:
Centre of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002, India. [email protected]://facweb.cbcs.ac.in/nsrini/
Sumitava Mukherjee
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 384424, India. [email protected]://sites.google.com/site/sumitavaehome/
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Abstract

In this commentary, we focus on the role of attentional mechanisms in unconscious thought. We argue that even distracted or unconscious thought is capacity limited and differences in scope of attention influence processing during unconscious thought. Attention also would influence processes at different stages in the proposed lens model. We conclude that there is a clear need to understand the role of attention to better understand conscious or unconscious thought.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 40 - 41
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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