Ultrafast cognition

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Observations of ultra fast cognition in human performance challenge intuitive information processing and computation metaphors of cognitive processing. Instances of ultra fast cognition are marked by ultra fast response times of reliable, accurate responses to a relatively complex stimulus. Ultra fast means response times that are as fast as a single feed forward burst of activity across the nervous system connecting eye to hand. Thus the information processing and computation metaphors in question are those in which some amount of time is required to decide and initiate a response, over and above the minimum time required, physiologically, for the eye-hand chain of action potentials - these are metaphors in which the brain does work that has a measurable duration in time. Ultra fast cognition can be explained by synergies spanning the mind and body. Synergies are temporary dynamical structures that anticipate context-appropriate Behaviour. An anticipatory state poises the mind and body in symmetry among equivalent options for Behaviour, and only a minimal change in context, favoring one option over any other, is sufficient to break symmetry and enact an ultra fast cognitive response.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Consciousness Studies
Volume19
Issue number5-6
Pages (from-to)141-160
Number of pages20
ISSN1355-8250
Publication statusPublished - 11.06.2012
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Psychology - Complexity, Mind-body synergy, Symmetry breaking, Ultra fast response time

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