Cerebration, UNCONSCIOUS.

Cerebration, UNCONSCIOUS. There can be no doubt that molecular changes in the cerebrum accompany all our conscious mental processes. The doctrine of unconscious cerebration as stated by Carpenter, Laycock, and others, holds that similar changes may go on in the cerebrum without any consciousness on our part, until the fully elaborated mental result is presented. It is an every-day experience that after one has been in vain trying to recall some name or incident, it will suddenly flash into the mind when one is thinking of some entirely different subject. According to Carpenter the cerebrum put in action by our consciousness has gone on working automatically but unconsciously, until the processes accompanying the mental operation of remembering the name or incident have been completed. This is the physiological statement corresponding to the psychological doctrine that the mind may undergo modifications without being conscious of the process until the new combination is presented to consciousness. See CONSCIOUSNESS, BRAIN, PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONALITY (Double).