Lost in dissociation: The main paradigms in unconscious cognition.
Contemporary studies in unconscious cognition are essentially founded on dissociation, i.e., on how it dissociates with respect to conscious mental processes and representations. This is claimed to be in so many and diverse ways that one is often lost in dissociation. In order to reduce this state of confusion we here carry out two major tasks: based on the central distinction between cognitive processes and representations, we identify and isolate the main dissociation paradigms; we then critically analyze their key tenets and reported findings.
University of Barcelona (Visiting researcher), Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: luis.ml.augusto@gmail.com.
Luis M
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Augusto
D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology
Cognitive formats or levels; Exclusiveness assumption; Exhaustiveness assumption; Processing paradigms; Representation paradigms; The dissociation logic; Unconscious cognition