Leslie Escobar

Extracting probability in the absence of visual awareness.

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience June 2023 Shao-Min Hung, Daw-An Wu, Leslie Escobar et al.

Extracting statistical regularities from the environment is crucial for survival. It allows us to learn cues for where and when future events will occur. Can we learn these associations even when the cues are not consciously perceived? Can these unconscious processes integrate information over long periods of time? We show that human visual system can track the probability of location...