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Why the brain knows more than we do: non-conscious représentations and their role in the construction of conscious experience

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Scientific studies have shown that non-conscious stimuli and representations influence information processing during conscious experience. In the light of such evidence, questions about potential functional links between non-conscious brain representations and conscious experience arise. This article discusses neural model capable of explaining how statistical learning mechanisms in dedicated resonant circuits could generate specific temporal activity traces of non-conscious representations in the brain. How reentrant signaling, top-down matching, and statistical coincidence of such activity traces may lead to the progressive consolidation of temporal patterns that constitute the neural signatures of conscious experience in networks extending across large distances beyond functionally specialized brain regions is then explained.
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hal-00857103 , version 1 (11-02-2020)

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Birgitta Dresp. Why the brain knows more than we do: non-conscious représentations and their role in the construction of conscious experience. Brain Sciences, 2012, 2 (1), pp.1-21. ⟨10.3390/brainsci2010001⟩. ⟨hal-00857103⟩
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