The Cognitive Unconscious The First Half Century

by Reber, Arthur S.; Allen, Rhianon

• ISBN13: 9780197501573
• ISBN10: 0197501575
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780197501597
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-07-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The term 'Implicit Learning' refers to the way in which knowledge of fairly complex, patterned material can be acquired without any conscious effort to learn it and with little to no awareness of what has been learned. Over the past fifty years, Implict Learning has became a vigorously researched area in the social sciences.

In The Cognitive Unconscious, Arthur S. Reber and Rhianon Allen bring together several dozen experts from social science and neuroscience to present a broad overview of the exploration of the cognitive unconscious. Each chapter delves deeper into a subject that has become an interdisciplinary domain of research to which contributions have been made by sociologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists, linguists, social and organizational psychologists, and sport psychologists, amongst many others. The book shows that unconscious, implicit cognitive processes play a role in virtually everything interesting that human beings do. As the contributors demonstrate, the implicit and explicit elements of cognition form a rich and complex interactive framework that make up who we are.

With contributions from over thirty distinguished authors from nine different countries, The Cognitive Unconscious gives a balanced and thorough overview of where the field is today, over a half-century since the first experiments were run.

Author Biography

Arthur S. Reber is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He completed his Ph.D. at Brown University under the direction of Richard Millward. His primary focus has been on implicit or unconscious learning based on principles of evolutionary
biology.

Rhianon Allen is Professor Emerita at Long Island University and an Affiliate Professor at the University of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

I. Foundational Issues
Chapter 1: Implicit Learning: Background, History, Theory
Arthur S. Reber

Chapter 2: Procedural Memory: The Role of Competitive Neurocognitive Networks Across Development
Karolina Janacsek and Dezso Nemeth

Chapter 3: Cognitive Neuroscience of Implicit Learning: Implications for Complex Learning and Expertise
Y. Catherine Han, Kevin D. Schmidt, Evan Grandoit, Peigen Shu, Caelie P. McRobert, and Paul J. Reber

Chapter 4: Implicit Cognition in the Face of Neurological Disorders: Implications for Neural Mechanisms and Evolution
Leib Litman and Shalom Noach Jaffe

Chapter 5: The Cognitive Unconscious in Everyday Life
John A. Bargh

II. Distinctions between Implicit and Explicit Functions
Chapter 6: Implicit Learning and Language Acquisition: Three Approaches, One Phenomenon
Patrick Rebuschat

Chapter 7: Implicit Learning in Healthy Aging: Evidence from Probabilistic Sequence Learning
Darlene V. Howard and James H. Howard, Jr.

Chapter 8: Implicit Learning of Motor and Perceptual Skills
Julia M. Schorn & Barbara J. Knowlton

Chapter 9: IQ, Adaptive Intelligence and Unconscious Processes
Rhianon Allen

III. Extensions and Applications
Chapter 10: Human Unconscious Processes in situ: The Kind of Awareness that Really Matters
John A. Bargh and Ran R. Hassin

Chapter 11: The Cognitive Unconscious and Dual Process Theories of Reasoning
Wim De Neys

Chapter 12: Implicit Learning in Primates: Insights from Comparative Research
Benjamin Wilson and Holly E. Jenkins

Chapter 13: The Locus of Focus and Curing the Yips
Stephen M. Weiss and Richard S. W. Masters

Chapter 14: From the Cognitive to the Collective: A Conceptualization of the Unconscious in Organizations
Elisabeth Brauner

Chapter 15: The Unexplicated and its Consequences
Harry Collins

Chapter 16: Belief and the Cognitive Unconscious
James E. Alcock

Chapter 17: Implicit Social Cognition: A Brief (and Gentle) Introduction
Benedek Kurdi and Mahzarin R. Banaji

Chapter 18: Implicit Learning of Emotional Structures: Implications for Cognitive-Behavior Therapies
Razvan Jurchis, Andrei Costea, and Adrian Opre

Chapter 19: Perspectives on the Cognitive Unconscious
Antonio Damasio