The Inner World of Unaware Phenomena

Pathways to Brain, Behavior, and Implicit Memory

Bruce J. Diamond, Amy E. Learmonth, Katherine Makarec

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781978751569
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Clinical Psychology
• Index: Psychology

In this The Inner World of Unaware Phenomena: Pathways to Brain, Behavior, and Implicit Memory, authors Bruce J. Diamond, Amy E. Learmonth, and Katherine Makarec argue that there is an inner world within all of us that profoundly impacts our lives, and that memories, perceptions, tastes, preferences, biases, and beliefs are encoded and expressed on an unaware, largely non-conscious level. In other words, many aspects of our lives and actions are guided and influenced by factors about which we may know very little, but which nevertheless alter the quality, substance, and trajectory of our lives, our loves, our likes, and our dislikes. Drawing on novel experimental designs and computer and imaging-based technologies, the authors demonstrate that people can react to faces and places in measurable ways, despite the fact that they may profess to having never seen or visited these faces or places. The authors show that these unaware phenomena are not isolated instances, but rather that they permeate and influence virtually every aspect of our lives.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Cognitive and Behavioral Indices of Unaware Phenomena across the Developmental Spectrum
• Familiarity and Priming
• Emotions, Valence and Arousal
• Perceptual Processing, Procedural Learning and Language
• Cross-Modality Effects
• Preserved and Impaired Priming Effects in Clinical Disorders
• Language Learning, Artificial Grammars and Modality Effects
• Statistical Learning and Pattern Detection
• Neurologic and Neuropsychiatric Perspectives
• Illuminating the Unaware World of Confabulation
• When Awareness Interferes with Autonomic Discrimination of Unaware Memory
• Preserved and Impaired Implicit Learning in Amnesia
• Implicit Bias, Executive Control, Brain Metabolism and Processing Speed
• Methods and Models for Examining Unaware Phenomena in the Brain
• Conclusion
• References
• Index
• About the Authors