Attention and consciousness
WIREs Cognitive Science 2010 Felipe De Brigard, Jesse Prinz
AbstractFor the past three decades there has been a substantial amount of scientific evidence supporting the view that attention is necessary and sufficient for perceptual representations to become conscious (i.e., for there to be something that it is like to experience a representational perceptual state). This view, however, has been recently questioned on the basis of some alleged...