The Cognitive Unconscious: The First Half Century

The term 'Implicit Learning' refers to the way in which knowledge of fairly complex, patterned material can be acquired without any conscious effort to learn it and with little to no awareness of what has been learned. Over the past fifty years, Implict Learning has became a vigorously researched area in the social sciences.

In The Cognitive Unconscious, Arthur S. Reber and Rhianon Allen bring together several dozen experts from social science and neuroscience to present a broad overview of the exploration of the cognitive unconscious. Each chapter delves deeper into a subject that has become an interdisciplinary domain of research to which contributions have been made by sociologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists, linguists, social and organizational psychologists, and sport psychologists, amongst many others. The book shows that unconscious, implicit cognitive processes play a role in virtually everything interesting that human beings do. As the contributors demonstrate, the implicit and explicit elements of cognition form a rich and complex interactive framework that make up who we are.

With contributions from over thirty distinguished authors from nine different countries, The Cognitive Unconscious gives a balanced and thorough overview of where the field is today, over a half-century since the first experiments were run.

Author: Arthur S. Reber, Rhianon Allen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/29/2022
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.31w x 1.13d
ISBN13: 9780197501573
ISBN10: 0197501575
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Psychology | Evolutionary Psychology
- Psychology | Applied Psychology

About the Author

Arthur S. Reber is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He completed his Ph.D. at Brown University under the direction of Richard Millward. His primary focus has been on implicit or unconscious learning based on principles of evolutionary biology.

Rhianon Allen is Professor Emerita at Long Island University and an Affiliate Professor at the University of British Columbia.