Continuous flash suppression (CFS), and in particular the so-called breaking continuous
flash suppression (b-CFS) paradigm, has become one of the most influential approaches for …

Human faces convey essential information for understanding others' mental states and
intentions. The importance of faces in social interaction has prompted suggestions that some …

People make rapid inferences about others' thoughts and intentions. For example, they
observe facial movements and pupil size of others and unwittingly make use of this …

A central question in consciousness theories is whether one is dealing with a dichotomous
(“all-or-none”) or a gradual phenomenon. In this 7T fMRI study, we investigated whether …

Rapid detection of threats has been proposed to rely on automatic processing of their coarse
visual features. However, it remains unclear whether such a mechanism is restricted to …

Emotional stimuli are preferentially processed in the visual system, in particular, fearful
faces. Evidence comes from unimodal studies with emotional faces, although real-life …

Some researchers have argued that normal human observers can exhibit “blindsight-like”
behavior: the ability to discriminate or identify a stimulus without being aware of it. However …

Fear and disgust have been associated with opposite influences on visual processing, even
though both constitute negative emotions that motivate avoidance behavior and entail …

Contrary to the leading theories of consciousness on offer, it is a fruitful working hypothesis
that conscious experiences facilitate a variety of functional capacities that are distinct to …

Extinction learning is regarded as a core mechanism underlying exposure therapy. The
extent to which learned threats can be extinguished without conscious awareness is a …