Some Safety on the Road Comes From Consciousness Responses (Science Is Lovable 47 of 72)

Some Safety on the Road Comes From Consciousness Responses (Science Is Lovable 47 of 72)

Stephen F. Ledoux
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At this point, the children arguing in the back seat, and even the beautiful, high sierra scenery, must fail to evoke any other consciousness chains, not only ones that alternate with each other but also ones that alternate with the chain that remains focused on the curves. The single consciousness channel must remain completely preoccupied with focused driving for the duration of those particular cliff–hugging sharp curves.

Consciousness Behaviors Comprise Single-Channel Processes (Science Is Lovable 46 of 72)

Consciousness Behaviors Comprise Single-Channel Processes (Science Is Lovable 46 of 72)

Stephen F. Ledoux
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Other characteristic of consciousness responding, beyond those we covered in recent columns, also prove worthy of our consideration. One of these involves consciousness apparently happening as a kind of “single–channel” covert process (although more research is needed). This process often occurs separately from any concurrent occurrence of overt behaviors that could be happening under direct stimulus control.

Covert Stimuli and Responses Provide Reasonable Access (Science Is Lovable 40 of 72)

Covert Stimuli and Responses Provide Reasonable Access (Science Is Lovable 40 of 72)

Stephen F. Ledoux
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Access to real but covert events remains reduced compared to access to real but overt events. This reduced access makes covert–event research more difficult but not impossible. The skin remains a scientifically unimportant boundary, because the laws of the universe operate the same way on either side of the skin.

Extinction and Forgetting (Mysteries of Living 29 of 72)

Extinction and Forgetting (Mysteries of Living 29 of 72)

Stephen F. Ledoux
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The type of extinction we focus on here is operant extinction, a process for which we simply use the single word “extinction.” This kind of extinction is one of the operant environmental–change contingencies that brings about the reduction of, and ultimately, if the process continues, the cessation of the behavior of concern.