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Bilingual Study Reveals How Emotion Can Shut Down High-Level Mental Processes Without Our Knowledge
May 10, 2012 by NewsBot
Psychologists at Bangor University believe that they have glimpsed for the first time, a process that takes place deep within our unconscious brain, where primal reactions interact with higher mental processes. Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience (May 9, 2012 - 32(19):6485 - 6489 - 6485), they identify a reaction to negative language inputs which shuts down unconscious processing...