Mudrik, Liad and Faivre, Nathan and Koch, Christof (2014) Information integration without awareness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18 (9). pp. 488-496. ISSN 1364-6613. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2014.04.009. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140623-150648849
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Abstract
Information integration and consciousness are closely related, if not interdependent. But, what exactly is the nature of their relation? Which forms of integration require consciousness? Here, we examine the recent experimental literature with respect to perceptual and cognitive integration of spatiotemporal, multisensory, semantic, and novel information. We suggest that, whereas some integrative processes can occur without awareness, their scope is limited to smaller integration windows, to simpler associations, or to ones that were previously acquired consciously. This challenges previous claims that consciousness of some content is necessary for its integration; yet it also suggests that consciousness holds an enabling role in establishing integrative mechanisms that can later operate unconsciously, and in allowing wider-range integration, over bigger semantic, spatiotemporal, and sensory integration windows.
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Additional Information: | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This work was supported by G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, the Human Frontier Science Program, the Weizmann Institute of Science – National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science and the Fyssen Foundation. We thank Giulio Tononi, Nao Tsuchiya, Leon Deouell, Julien Dubois and the reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. | ||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | consciousness; integration; unconscious processing; multisensory integration; integration windows; global neural workspace; integrated information theory | ||||||||||||
Issue or Number: | 9 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.tics.2014.04.009 | ||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Liad Mudrik, Nathan Faivre, Christof Koch, Information integration without awareness, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 18, Issue 9, September 2014, Pages 488-496, ISSN 1364-6613, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2014.04.009. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661314001041) | ||||||||||||
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