According to DE Broadbent's (1958) selective filter theory, people do not process
unattended stimuli beyond the analysis of basic physical properties. This theory was later …

Increasing the physical distinction between targets and distractors can eliminate Stroop
interference, which has prompted claims that noninterfering distractors are not identified (eg …

Having found by the use of a new method for examining perception without attention that
grouping and texture segregation do not seem to occur (see Mack, Tang, Tuma, Kahn, & …

Research on attention is concerned with selective processing of incoming sensory
information. To some extent, our awareness of the world depends on what we choose to …

The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the fact that, contrary to the implications of a
recent paper by Merikle (1982), the case for unconscious perception does not stand or fall …

This chapter summarizes a body of research done over the last five years in both the
perception laboratory at the New School for Social Research in New York and in Irvin Rock's …

Perceiving is a matter of picking up information over time. When perceiving is thought of as a
constructive process or as information pickup guided by specific anticipatory schemata, no …

Reviews recent studies to evaluate the validity of the perception-without-awareness
hypothesis (CW Eriksen; see PA, Vol 36: 3CH79E). Studies demonstrating the efficacy of …

We cannot understand why Treisman and Geffen (1967) think their experiment argues
against our theory (Deutsch and Deutsch, 1963). Briefly, Treisman and Geffen ask subjects …

Considerable research has demonstrated that distractor stimuli impair response to targets.
Such observations suggest that distractor stimuli are analyzed at least to the level of …