Subjective visibility report is facilitated by conscious predictions only
bioRxiv July 9, 2020 Josipa Alilovic, Heleen A. Slagter, Simon van Gaal preprint
Predictions in the visual domain have been shown to modulate conscious access. Yet, little is known about how predictions may do so and to what extent they need to be consciously implemented to be effective. To address this, we administered an attentional blink (AB) task in which target 1 (T1) identity predicted target 2 (T2) identity, while participants rated their perceptual awareness of...