The mind’s eye: How the brain sorts out what you see

The mind’s eye: How the brain sorts out what you see – life – 30 August 2010 – New Scientist

These findings seem to support the view emerging from several disparate fields of neuroscience – that the subconscious mind has a bigger role than previously supposed. When it comes to the mental faculties we prize as uniquely human, including creativity, language and aspects of memory and learning, subconscious thought processes are far from playing second fiddle to the conscious mind (New Scientist, 1 December, 2007, p 42).

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