Unconscious processing: To what extent, how flexible and how smart?

我们没有意识到我们的感知系统进行的复杂模式分析，使我们能够在复杂的环境中运作。不太清楚的是，无意识呈现的信息本身是否会影响我们的行为，或者是否会发生无意识认知。拟议中的研究提供了基础和结构的范围内，灵活性和计算能力的无意识处理的神经反应和行为的水平开拓性的检查。该项目的影响和好处将在于其对理论的贡献，其结果揭示了控制无意识认知的边界条件，并为这些条件在整个生命周期中如何变化提供了第一个基准。

We are unaware of the sophisticated pattern analyses conducted by our perceptual systems that enable us to operate in a complex environment. Less clear is whether unconsciously presented information itself can influence our behaviour or indeed whether unconscious cognition occurs. The proposed studies provide the foundation and structure for a pioneering examination of the extent, flexibility and computational power of unconscious processing at the level of neural response and behaviour. The impact and benefits of the project will be in its contribution to theory with outcomes revealing the boundary conditions governing unconscious cognition and providing a first benchmark for how such conditions might vary across the lifespan.