How brain structures and neuronal circuits mechanistically underpin symbolic meaning has
recently been elucidated by neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neurocomputational …

Maintaining attention for more than a few seconds is essential for mastering everyday life.
Yet, our ability to stay focused on a particular task is limited, resulting in well-known …

At first glance, conceptual representations (eg, our internal notion of the object “lemon”)
seem static; we have the impression that there is something that the concept lemon …

It has been widely claimed that attention and awareness are doubly dissociable and that
there is no causal relation between them. In support of this view are numerous claims of …

Everyone knows what bottom-up is, and how it is different from top-down. At least one is
tempted to think so, given that both terms are ubiquitously used, but only rarely defined in …

The influence of subliminal priming (behavior outside of awareness) in humans is an
interesting phenomenon and its understanding is crucial as it can impact behavior, choices …

Theories about the neural correlates and functional relevance of consciousness have
traditionally assigned a crucial role to the prefrontal cortex in generating consciousness as …

Speeded naming and lexical decision data for 1,661 target words following related and
unrelated primes were collected from 768 subjects across four different universities. These …

Here we review studies on the complexity and strength of unconscious information
processing. We focus on empirical evidence that relates awareness of information to …

Abstract Evaluation is a fundamental concept in psychological science. Limitations of self-
report measures of evaluation led to an explosion of research on implicit measures of …