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 …

A recent study showed that scenes with an object-background relationship that is
semantically incongruent break interocular suppression faster than scenes with a …

Integrative processing is traditionally believed to be dependent on consciousness. While
earlier studies within the last decade reported many types of integration under subliminal …

In the ongoing research of the functions of consciousness, special emphasis has been put
on integration of information: the ability to combine different signals into a coherent, unified …

Philosophers have long argued that causality cannot be directly observed but requires a
conscious inference. Albert Michotte however developed numerous visual phenomena in …

The visual cortex contains information about stimuli even when they are not consciously
perceived. However, it remains unknown whether the visual system integrates local features …

The occurrence of implicit processing of visual stimuli during inattentional blindness is still a
matter of debate. To assess the evidence available in this debate, we conducted a …

Detecting faces and identifying their emotional expressions are essential for social
interaction. The importance of expressions has prompted suggestions that some emotionally …

In this study we examined whether grouping by luminance similarity and grouping by
connectedness can occur in the absence of visual awareness, using a priming paradigm …