Pia Schröder

Conscious access in the near absence of attention: critical extensions on the dual-task paradigm.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences September 1, 2018 Julian R. Matthews, Pia Schröder, Lisandro Kaunitz et al.

Whether conscious perception requires attention remains a topic of intense debate. While certain complex stimuli such as faces and animals can be discriminated outside the focus of spatial attention, many simpler stimuli cannot. Because such evidence was obtained in dual-task paradigms involving no measure of subjective insight, it remains unclear whether accurate discrimination of unattended...