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Concept Formation: Object Attributes Dynamically Inhibited from Conscious Awareness

Date

Authors

Snyder, Allan

Bossomaier, Terry

Mitchell, D John

Publisher

Imperial College Press

Abstract

We advance a dominant neural strategy for facilitating conceptual thought. Concepts are groupings of "object" attributes. Once the brain learns such critical groupings, the "object" attributes are inhibited from conscious awareness. We see the whole, not

Keywords

Keywords: amphetamine; mescaline; psychotropic agent; access to information; autism; awareness; concept formation; consciousness; creativity; drug effect; ego development; human; language; learning; mental disease; model; nerve cell inhibition; nerve cell network; Absolute pitch; Autism; Autistic savant; Concept formation; Cortical inhibition; Creativity; Language acquisition; Nonconscious skills; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Unconscious skills

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/81595

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1142/S0219635204000361

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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