UNCONSCIOUS EMOTIONAL INFORMATION PROCESSING: THEORETICAL CONSEQUENCES AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

Maurits van den Noort, Kenneth Hugdahl, Peggy Bosch

2007

Abstract

The nature of unconscious human emotional information processing remains a great mystery. On the one hand, classical models view human conscious emotional information processing as computation among the brain’s neurons but fail to address its enigmatic features. On the other hand, quantum processes (superposition of states, nonlocality, and entanglement) also remain mysterious, yet are being harnessed in revolutionary information technologies like quantum computation, quantum cryptography, and quantum teleportation. In this paper, a behavioral- and two neuroimaging studies will be discussed that suggest a special role for unconscious emotional information processing in human interaction with other objects. Since this is a new research field; we are only beginning to understand quantum information processing in the human brain (Hameroff, 2006; Van den Noort and Bosch, 2006). This research is important since it could have important theoretical consequences in the way we understand physics and information processing in the brain. Moreover, it could lead to new information technologies and applications. For instance, it might give new insights on human consumer behavior (Dijksterhuis, 2004; Dijksterhuis, Bos, Nordgren, and Van Baaren, 2006a; 2006b), and lead to new commercial strategies for multinationals.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

van den Noort M., Hugdahl K. and Bosch P. (2007). UNCONSCIOUS EMOTIONAL INFORMATION PROCESSING: THEORETICAL CONSEQUENCES AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-92-4, pages 207-214. DOI: 10.5220/0002355602070214

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Maurits van den Noort and Kenneth Hugdahl and Peggy Bosch},
title={UNCONSCIOUS EMOTIONAL INFORMATION PROCESSING: THEORETICAL CONSEQUENCES AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={207-214},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002355602070214},
isbn={978-972-8865-92-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - UNCONSCIOUS EMOTIONAL INFORMATION PROCESSING: THEORETICAL CONSEQUENCES AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
SN - 978-972-8865-92-4
AU - van den Noort M.
AU - Hugdahl K.
AU - Bosch P.
PY - 2007
SP - 207
EP - 214
DO - 10.5220/0002355602070214