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SUBMITTER: Sklar AY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3511729 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sklar Asael Y AY Levy Nir N Goldstein Ariel A Mandel Roi R Maril Anat A Hassin Ran R RR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121112 48
The modal view in the cognitive and neural sciences holds that consciousness is necessary for abstract, symbolic, and rule-following computations. Hence, semantic processing of multiple-word expressions, and performing of abstract mathematical computations, are widely believed to require consciousness. We report a series of experiments in which we show that multiple-word verbal expressions can be processed outside conscious awareness and that multistep, effortful arithmetic equations can be solv ...[more]