Testing the prevalent consistency assumption of (un)conscious processing through massive feature extraction of inattentional blindness electroencephalography
September 9, 2026 Angus Leung, Yota Kawashima, Naotsugu Tsuchiya preprint
Freud’s iceberg metaphor has long been used to describe (un)consciousness: a huge unconsciousness supports a tiny tip of consciousness. Inspired by this, research has assumed that unconscious discriminative processing persists into consciousness, employing contrastive analysis to isolate the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC). For example, in electroencephalography (EEG) studies, features...