The neural basis of conscious control of unconscious processing

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24700268
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Cognitive science
Research Institution	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Principal Investigator	MATSUMOTO Atsushi 独立行政法人情報通信研究機構, 脳情報通信融合研究センター・脳情報通信融合研究室/脳機能計測研究室, 研究員 (20588462)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords	閾下処理 / 注意 / 脳磁図 / 意識 / 無意識 / 脳
Outline of Final Research Achievements	In this study, I investigated the theural basis of conscious control of unconscious processing. Our results indicated that the unconscious processing as well as conscious processing of words were amplified by attention. In the nueral level, the activity of visual regions or semantic region for unconscious word processing were amplified by attention. These results indicated that unconscious processing can be controled by the conscious processing, such as attention. Furthermore, our results showed frontal regions control the activity of visual or semantic processing regions.