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The Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience of the Unconscious

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Dan J. Stein ,
Mark Solms  and
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.

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Pearls in Clinical Neuroscience
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 11 , Issue 8 , August 2006 , pp. 580 - 583
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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