PMID: 10668352: Intuition: a social cognitive neuroscience approach

[janet marie paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Intuition: a social cognitive neuroscience approach.

This review proposes that implicit learning processes are the cognitive 
substrate of social intuition.

This hypothesis is supported by (a) the conceptual correspondence between 
implicit learning and social intuition (nonverbal communication) and (b) a 
review of relevant neuropsychological (Huntington's and Parkinson's disease), 
neuroimaging, neurophysiological, and neuroanatomical data.

It is concluded that the caudate and putamen, in the basal ganglia, are central 
components of both intuition and implicit learning, supporting the proposed 
relationship.

Parallel, but distinct, processes of judgment and action are demonstrated at 
each of the social, cognitive, and neural levels of analysis.

Additionally, explicit attempts to learn a sequence can interfere with implicit 
learning.

The possible relevance of the computations of the basal ganglia to emotional 
appraisal, automatic evaluation, script processing, and decision making are 
discussed.


Psychol Bull 2000 Jan;126(1):109-37
Lieberman MD
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA.
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PMID: 10668352, UI: 20133531

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