The law of prior entry was one of EB Titchener's seven fundamental laws of attention.
According to Titchener (1908, p. 251):“the object of attention comes to consciousness more …

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

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 …

Our visual system can process information at both conscious and unconscious levels.
Understanding the factors that control whether a stimulus reaches our awareness, and the …

Numerous non-invasive experimental “blinding” methods exist for suppressing the
phenomenal awareness of visual stimuli. Not all of these suppressive methods occur at, and …

Although in traditional attention research the focus of visual spatial attention has been
considered as indivisible, many studies in the last 15 years have claimed the contrary …

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

Research on unconscious or unaware vision has demonstrated that unconscious
processing can be flexibly adapted to the current goals of human agents. The present review …

The negative compatibility effect (NCE) is the surprising result that visual targets that follow a
brief prime stimulus and a mask can be identified more rapidly when they are opposite …

According to contingent-processing accounts, peripheral cuing effects are due to the cues'
inadvertent selection for processing by control settings set up for targets (eg, CL Folk, RW …