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The Procedural Unconscious: Automatic Processing of Mechanical, Structural, and Semantic Data

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Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain

Part of the book series: Psychobiology of Human Behavior ((PSPS,volume 1))

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As opposed to conscious episodic data processing which is governed by a single albeit complicated physiological sequence, unconscious procedural processing involves a variety of types of material each of which is processed through unique and characteristic mechanisms. Consequently the description of unconscious data processing involves not one but many different physiological systems.

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Kissin, B. (1986). The Procedural Unconscious: Automatic Processing of Mechanical, Structural, and Semantic Data. In: Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain. Psychobiology of Human Behavior, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2187-3_11

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