Perception is an active process emerging from the interaction between incoming bottom-up
sensory inputs and projected top-down internal priors. Priors are generally formed after …

Perception is an active process shaped by the interplay of bottom-up information arriving at
the sensory systems and top-down priors based on previous experience. While knowledge …

Many subliminal priming experiments are thought to demonstrate unconscious access to
semantics. However, most of them can be reinterpreted in a non-semantic framework that …

Adaptively learning from encountered visual information is a fundamental skill that can
translate into changes at both the behavioural level and at the subjective, conscious …

Is semantic priming driven by the objective or perceived meaning of the priming stimulus?
This question is relevant given that many studies suggest that the objective meaning of …

A new paradigm for investigating whether a cognitive process is independent of perception
was recently suggested. In the paradigm, primes are shown at an intermediate signal …

An under-recognised U-shaped model states that unconscious and conscious perceptual
effects are functionally exclusive and that unconscious perceptual effects manifest …

Visual masking can be employed to manipulate observers' awareness of critical stimuli in
studies of masked priming. This paper discusses two different lines of attack for establishing …

Recent studies using intentional memory tasks showed that images differ consistently in
memorability. Here, we used a surprise recognition memory test. We asked how incidental …

The scope of the present work encompasses the influence of experience (ie expertise) for
feature processing in unconscious information processing. In the introduction, I describe the …