The cognitive-affective neuroscience of the unconscious

Dan J. Stein*, Mark Solms, Jack Van Honk

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Abstract

There is an ongoing debate about how best to conceptualize the unconscious. Early psychodynamic views employed theories influenced by physics to explain clinical material, while subsequent cognitivist views relied on computational models of the mind to explain laboratory data. More recently, advances in cognitive-affective neuroscience have provided new insights into the workings of unconscious cognition and affect. We briefly review some of this recent work and its clinical implications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)580-583
Number of pages4
JournalCNS Spectrums
Volume11
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2006
Externally publishedYes

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