The neural basis of conscious control of unconscious processing

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• 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
• Keywords: 閾下処理 / 注意

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.

Free Research Field

神経科学