Breaking continuous flash suppression: Competing for consciousness on the pre-semantic battlefield

S Gayet, S Van der Stigchel, CLE Paffen - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Traditionally, interocular suppression is believed to disrupt high-level (ie, semantic or
conceptual) processing of the suppressed visual input. The development of a new …

On the use of continuous flash suppression for the study of visual processing outside of awareness

E Yang, J Brascamp, MS Kang, R Blake - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The interocular suppression technique termed continuous flash suppression (CFS) has
become an immensely popular tool for investigating visual processing outside of awareness …

Are visual threats prioritized without awareness? A critical review and meta-analysis involving 3 behavioral paradigms and 2696 observers.

N Hedger, KLH Gray, M Garner, WJ Adams - Psychological bulletin, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Given capacity limits, only a subset of stimuli give rise to a conscious percept.
Neurocognitive models suggest that humans have evolved mechanisms that operate without …

Minimal exposure durations reveal visual processing priorities for different stimulus attributes

RC Lanfranco, A Canales-Johnson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Human vision can detect a single photon, but the minimal exposure required to extract
meaning from stimulation remains unknown. This requirement cannot be characterised by …

Fearful faces have a sensory advantage in the competition for awareness.

N Hedger, WJ Adams, M Garner - Journal of experimental …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Only a subset of visual signals give rise to a conscious percept. Threat signals, such as
fearful faces, are particularly salient to human vision. Research suggests that fearful faces …

Iconic faces are not real faces: enhanced emotion detection and altered neural processing as faces become more iconic

LN Kendall, Q Raffaelli, A Kingstone… - … research: principles and …, 2016 - Springer
Iconic representations are ubiquitous; they fill children's cartoons, add humor to
newspapers, and bring emotional tone to online communication. Yet, the communicative …

The breaking continuous flash suppression paradigm: Review, evaluation, and outlook

T Stein - Transitions between consciousness and …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

The southampton-york natural scenes (syns) dataset: Statistics of surface attitude

WJ Adams, JH Elder, EW Graf, J Leyland… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Recovering 3D scenes from 2D images is an under-constrained task; optimal estimation
depends upon knowledge of the underlying scene statistics. Here we introduce the …

Ultrahigh field fMRI reveals different roles of the temporal and Frontoparietal cortices in subjective awareness

MP Solanas, M Zhan, B de Gelder - Journal of Neuroscience, 2024 - jneurosci.org
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 …

The importance of awareness for understanding language.

H Rabagliati, A Robertson, D Carmel - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 148 (6) of Journal
of Experimental Psychology: General (see record 2019-31826-001). In the article, funding …