What about consciousness during learning?
Category
Journal Article
Authors
Vinter, A., Perruchet, P.
Year
1999
Title
What about consciousness during learning?
Journal / book / conference
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Abstract
Though we fully agree that unconscious processing produces explicit representations that form the conscious phenomenal experience of the subject, identifying phenomenal experience with stable patterns of activation in a PDP network seriously limits O'Brien & Opie's thesis. They fail to recognize the constructive role of consciousness during the learning episode itself, reducing consciousness to a resulting outcome of the learning episode. We illustrate how consciousness can guide and shape the formation of increasingly structured representations of the world by presenting a brief outline of a model for speech segmentation.
Issue
1
Volume
22
Pages
173