Eoin Travers

Learning rapidly about the relevance of visual cues requires conscious awareness.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology August 2018 Eoin Travers, Chris Frith, Nicholas Shea

Humans have been shown to be capable of performing many cognitive tasks using information of which they are not consciously aware. This raises questions about what role consciousness actually plays in cognition. Here, we explored whether participants can learn cue-target contingencies in an attentional learning task when the cues were presented below the level of conscious awareness and how...