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Brain Mechanisms of Unconscious Cognitive Control| old_uid | 7495 |
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| title | Brain Mechanisms of Unconscious Cognitive Control |
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| start_date | 2009/10/22 |
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| schedule | 17h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Traditionally, consciousness and cognitive control are supposed to be intimately related, in such a way that people often refer to conscious cognitive control , as if there is no other option. During my PhD, I put this long-held assumption to a direct test. I combined several traditional inhibition paradigms (the Go/No-Go task, the stop task and conflict tasks) with the masking paradigm to investigate the existence and potential neural mechanisms of unconscious cognitive control. In this talk, I will present experiments that demonstrate a crucial role of unconscious information in direct as well as regulatory control processes. It seems that unconsciously triggered cognitive control is real and associated with prefrontal computations in the human brain; as is also the case for conscious cognitive control. Yet, these studies also revealed substantial differences between conscious and unconscious versions of cognitive control. Commonalities and differences between both versions will be discussed in the light of influential models concerning the neural correlates (and function) of consciousness. |
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| responsibles | Seror, Bartolomeo |
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