Increased unconscious semantic activation in schizophrenia patients with formal thought disorder

Kiefer, Markus; Martens, Ulla; Weisbrod, Matthias; Hermle, Leo; Spitzer, Manfred

doi:10.1016/j.schres.2009.07.024

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“…Importantly, we ruled out that these disturbances are due to impaired visual processing of the primed outcome in schizophrenia. Whereas some research suggests impaired visual prime processes in schizophrenia (e.g., Cadenhead et al, 1998), the observation that schizophrenia patients and controls were equally able to detect the briefly presented location primes (17 ms) concurs with other recent findings showing intact response-, semantic-, and spatial priming in schizophrenia (Del Cul et al, 2006;Kiefer et al, 2009;Spencer et al, 2011).…”

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Abnormalities in the experience of self-agency in schizophrenia: A replication study

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Schizophrenia Research

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Abnormalities in the experience of self-agency in schizophrenia: A replication study

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Weiden

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Schizophrenia Research

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“…This would demonstrate that attentional sensitization of unconscious information processing is a general mechanism implemented in the human neuro-cognitive system. The notion of attentional sensitization of unconscious information processing could also help to explain and to further empirically investigate cognitive impairments in clinical populations who occasionally show deficits in unconscious information processing (Kiefer et al, 2009). In particular, conscious control of unconscious emotional processing is clinically highly important because findings in this area might help to design more efficient therapeutic treatment techniques for mood and anxiety disorders.…”

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Executive control over unconscious cognition: attentional sensitization of unconscious information processing

Kiefer¹

2012

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Unconscious priming is a prototypical example of an automatic process, which is initiated without deliberate intention. Classical theories of automaticity assume that such unconscious automatic processes occur in a purely bottom-up driven fashion independent of executive control mechanisms. In contrast to these classical theories, our attentional sensitization model of unconscious information processing proposes that unconscious processing is susceptible to executive control and is only elicited if the cognitive system is configured accordingly. It is assumed that unconscious processing depends on attentional amplification of task-congruent processing pathways as a function of task sets. This article provides an overview of the latest research on executive control influences on unconscious information processing. I introduce refined theories of automaticity with a particular focus on the attentional sensitization model of unconscious cognition which is specifically developed to account for various attentional influences on different types of unconscious information processing. In support of the attentional sensitization model, empirical evidence is reviewed demonstrating executive control influences on unconscious cognition in the domains of visuo-motor and semantic processing: subliminal priming depends on attentional resources, is susceptible to stimulus expectations and is influenced by action intentions and task sets. This suggests that even unconscious processing is flexible and context-dependent as a function of higher-level executive control settings. I discuss that the assumption of attentional sensitization of unconscious information processing can accommodate conflicting findings regarding the automaticity of processes in many areas of cognition and emotion. This theoretical view has the potential to stimulate future research on executive control of unconscious processing in healthy and clinical populations.

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“…Damian (2001) raised the fundamental question of whether semantic priming, instead of the unconscious semantic processing of subliminal information, merely reflects automatized stimulus-response mappings. These alternative explanations appear to have been reliably ruled out by recent studies (e.g., Kiefer, 2002; Kiefer & Brendel, 2006; Kiefer, Martens, Weisbrod, Hermle, & Spitzer, 2009), but the extent to which the processing involved is wholly unconscious, a concern that goes right to the heart of this topic, remains debatable (e.g., Kouider & Dehaene, 2007; Kouider & Dupoux, 2004). …”

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Unconscious knowledge: A survey

Augusto¹

2010

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

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The concept of unconscious knowledge is fundamental for an understanding of human thought processes and mentation in general; however, the psychological community at large is not familiar with it. This paper offers a survey of the main psychological research currently being carried out into cognitive processes, and examines pathways that can be integrated into a discipline of unconscious knowledge. It shows that the field has already a defined history and discusses some of the features that all kinds of unconscious knowledge seem to share at a deeper level. With the aim of promoting further research, we discuss the main challenges which the postulation of unconscious cognition faces within the psychological community.

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Increased unconscious semantic activation in schizophrenia patients with formal thought disorder

Cited by 41 publications

References 25 publications

Abnormalities in the experience of self-agency in schizophrenia: A replication study

Abnormalities in the experience of self-agency in schizophrenia: A replication study

Executive control over unconscious cognition: attentional sensitization of unconscious information processing

Unconscious knowledge: A survey

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