A new study challenges the prevailing assumption that you must pay attention to something in order to learn it. The research, published by Cell Press in the March 12th issue of the journal Neuron, ...

Whenever we have to acquire new knowledge under stress, the brain deploys unconscious rather than conscious learning processes. Neuroscientists have discovered that this switch from conscious to ...

Unconscious mind Information processed unconsciously can influence the accuracy of our decisions without us knowing it, new research has found. "People tend to think the decisions they make are based ...

WASHINGTON -- Individuals who can unconsciously predict complex patterns, an ability called implicit pattern learning, are likely to hold stronger beliefs that there is a god who creates patterns of ...

Can we learn without being aware of what we're learning? Many psychologists say that 'unconscious', or implicit, learning exists. But in a new paper, London-based psychologists Vadillo, Konstantinidis ...

A human brain gene, which allows cognitive flexibility as in driving when we navigate without consciously thinking, conferred similar benefits in engineered mice. Reuters Mice carrying a human brain ...

Historically, in psychology, the behavioral and cognitive-behavioral traditions did not emphasize unconscious processes—that is, when they did not flat out deny their existence or deem them irrelevant ...

A new study challenges the prevailing assumption that you must pay attention to something in order to learn it. The research demonstrates that stimulus-reward pairing can elicit visual learning in ...