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    J Am Acad Psychoanal. 1992 Spring;20(1):91-8.

    Categorization: a fundamental of unconscious mental activity.

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    Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane Medical School.

    Abstract

    Association formation and categorization, phenomena below volition and awareness, are in the unconscious domain. They reflect automatic processes of brain circuitry. The formation and maintenance of associations and categories require as well as yield neural energy, energy arising from cerebral metabolic processes. Automatic categorization is a fundamental element in perceptual, motoric, and cognitive functions as emphasized by Edelman (1987) who, further, relates categorization to dynamic cerebral cortical fields and to limbic fields for the necessary affective component.

    PMID:
    1607305
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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