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The conscious overshadowing of unconscious structures
The conscious overshadowing of unconscious structures
A Young Research Teams project (PN-IV-P2-2.1-TE-2023-2058), awarded by UEFISCDI - The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding
The project seeks to understand whether conscious knowledge can obscure the influence of unconscious representations on behavior and decision-making. To this end, we use the context of implicit learning, through which humans acquire complex regularities in their environment, without being fully aware of what they learn (e.g., consider the way we learn the grammar rules). Employing novel adaptations of standard implicit learning tasks (e.g., Artificial Grammar Learning), together with motion capture in sports, we test the hypothesis that conscious representations are not always direct reflections of internal states, but are often only partial, inaccurate, reconstructions.
Team
Răzvan Jurchiș
Project director
Andrei Costea
Postdoctoral researcher
Andrada Vincze
Postdoctoral researcher
Andrei Preda
PhD student
Publications
Jurchiș, R. & Preda, A. (2025). Consciousness seeks simplicity: repetitions trigger illusory awareness in implicit statistical learning. Preprint https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bj4ha_v1
Preda, A., Costea, A., Opre, A., & Jurchiș, R. (2025). Can bigram knowledge be unconscious? Preprint https://osf.io/hvbcr/overview?view_only=0601e6ddc6ed496382efdf7885cf7fbd
Preda, A., Rogojan, L., Costea., A., Jurchiș, R., & Opre, A (2025). Psychometric Properties of Implicit and Explicit Visual Statistical Learning: a Registered Report. Stage 1 Snapshot. https://osf.io/tf4wp/overview?view_only=90fc1e9517de47b4a1f71059b273b052
Conferences
Jurchiș R. (2025). Blinded by consciousness: Does awareness conceal the presence of unconscious knowledge? International Symposia on The interplay of conscious and unconscious cognition. Cluj-Napoca, May 9th
Jurchiș R., Vincze, A., Costea, A., & Opre, A. (2025). Does unconscious knowledge support skilled athletic movements? European College of Sports Science Conference. Rimini, July 1-4
Jurchiș R., Preda, A., Skora, L., Costea., A. (2025). Can unconscious knwoeldge support instrumental conditioning? A Registered Report. Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Heraklion, July 5-9
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