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BS 167 Stanislas Dehaene explores "How We Learn"

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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Neurociencia cognitiva demuestra que mayor parte de nuestra cognición es inconsciente.

The majority of computation in the brain is unconscious, including processes like face recognition, word recognition, and understanding the meaning of a sentence. Experiments with subliminal stimuli have shown that non-conscious stimulus can travel to the amygdala, where the emotional meaning of words is accessed, even when the word is impossible to detect. This demonstrates that consciousness represents only a small part of our mental life.

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