The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Studies utilizing continuous flash suppression (CFS) provide valuable information regarding
conscious and nonconscious perception. There are, however, crucial unanswered questions …

A deeply challenging and popular question concernswhatinformationispreservedduring
processing of invisible stimuli. Can an invisible stimulus reach processing stages commonly …

Studies on unconscious mental processes typically require that participants are unaware of
some information (eg, a visual stimulus). An important methodological question in this field …

It is debated whether the meaning of invisible pictures can be processed unconsciously. We
tested whether pictures of animals or objects presented under backward masking or …

One widely used scientific approach to studying consciousness involves contrasting
conscious operations with unconscious ones. However, challenges in establishing the …

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 …

We present a schizophrenia patient who reports “seeing rain” with attendant somatosensory
features which separate him from his surroundings. Because visual/multimodal …

The field of consciousness studies has yielded various—sometimes contradicting—accounts
regarding the function of consciousness, ranging from denying it has such function to …

Previous studies have proposed that potentially action-relevant visual features of masked
images are processed along the dorsal visual pathway, and can thus prime responses to …