The cognitive-affective neuroscience of the unconscious.

Full 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.

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Author information

Author/s: Stein, Dan J (DJ); Solms, Mark (M); van Honk, Jack (J);

Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Review

Journal: CNS spectrums (CNS Spectr), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Aug; vol 11 (issue 8) : pp 580-3

Dates: Created 2006/07/27; Completed 2006/10/03; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 16871123, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Adult
Affect - physiology
Amygdala - physiology
Cognition - physiology
Female

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