Traditionally, interocular suppression is believed to disrupt high-level (ie, semantic or
conceptual) processing of the suppressed visual input. The development of a new …

Understanding the mechanisms of unconscious processing is one of the most substantial
endeavors of cognitive science. While there are many different empirical ways to address …

The processing of interoceptive signals in the insular cortex is thought to underlie self-
awareness. However, the influence of interoception on visual awareness and the role of the …

In everyday life, we are constantly surrounded by complex and cluttered scenes. In such
cluttered environments, visual perception is primarily limited by crowding, the deleterious …

Whether fear conditioning can take place without contingency awareness is a topic of
continuing debate and conflicting findings have been reported in the literature. This …

Our perceptual systems continuously process sensory inputs from different modalities and
organize these streams of information such that our subjective representation of the outside …

Progress in the science of consciousness depends on the experimental paradigms and
varieties of contrastive analysis available to researchers. Here we highlight paradigms …

Studies utilizing continuous flash suppression (CFS) provide valuable information regarding
conscious and nonconscious perception. There are, however, crucial unanswered questions …

Recent years have witnessed fierce debates on the dependence of consciousness on
interactions between a subject and the environment. Reviewing neuroscientific …

Stimuli can be rendered invisible using a variety of methods and the method selected to
demonstrate unconscious processing in a given study often appears to be arbitrary. Here …