Cognitive control covers a broad range of cognitive functions, but its research and theories
typically remain tied to a single domain. Here we outline and review an associative learning …

Recent research has slowly corroded a belief that selective attention and consciousness are
so tightly entangled that they cannot be individually examined. In this review, we summarize …

What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages
with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the …

According to classical theories, automatic processes are autonomous and independent of
higher level cognitive influence. In contrast, the authors propose that automatic processing …

During the last three decades our understanding of the brain processes underlying
consciousness and attention has significantly improved, mainly because of the advances in …

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

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

The present paper reviews research that focuses on the dissociation between bottom-up
attention and consciousness. In particular, we focus on studies investigating spatial …

Zusammenfassung Die Forschung zur Volition und kognitiven Kontrolle befasst sich mit den
kognitiven und neuronalen Mechanismen, die der willentlichen Steuerung zielgerichteter …

Unconscious priming is a prototypical example of an automatic process, which is initiated
without deliberate intention. Classical theories of automaticity assume that such …