Hide and seek: Directing top-down attention is not sufficient for accelerating conscious access.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2020 Surya Gayet, Iris Douw, V. V. D. Burg et al.
At any moment in time, we have a single conscious visual experience representing a minute part of our visual world. As such, the visual input stimulating our retinae is in continuous competition for reaching conscious access. Many complex cognitive operations can only be applied to consciously accessible visual information, thereby raising the question whether humans have the ability to select...