期刊名称：Revue de Neuropsychologie Neurosciences Cognitives et Cliniques
印刷版ISSN：2101-6739
电子版ISSN：2102-6025
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：42-50
DOI：10.1684/nrp.2009.0006
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Figures See all figures Author Lionel Naccache Pôle des maladies du système nerveux, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris Key words: consciousness, executive control, subliminal, unconscious, automaticity, review DOI : 10.1684/nrp.2009.0006 Page(s) : 42-50 Published in: 2009 Can we define a limit to the mental processes that can proceed unconsciously? In response to this important theoretical issue, the last 20 years of empirical research substantially enlarged the range of unconscious mental processes and of their rich cerebral substrate. With regard to this effort to characterize the psychological specificities of conscious processing, the nature of the relations prevailing between conscious processing and executive control becomes a crucial issue. If the distinction to be drawn between conscious and unconscious mental operations is not to be found in terms of representational content, we may analyze their respective relations with executive control. In this review paper, I revisit some aspects of our ‘intellectual heritage’ related to links prevailing between executive control and conscious processing, restricting my enquiry to the field of subliminal visual processing. Then, I propose a theoretical revision to the concept of mental automaticity, and I illustrate how this proposal can explain a large set of recent provocative empirical results. Finally, in the last section of this paper, I review and discuss very recent data that pave the way to new theoretical revisions or considerations.
