Revisiting the neuroscientific evidence for unconscious perception - the implications of affordances theory and biased competition.
Acta Psychologica June 20, 2025 Ivaylo Borislavov Iotchev, Hein Thomas van Schie 1 citation
Neuroscientific support for the equivalence hypothesis, stating that perception can be either conscious or unconscious, rests upon overlap in the brain areas activated during conscious perception and subliminal priming. This interpretation is argued here incompatible with the implications of the biased competition model, wherein different interpretations of the world compete and one must be...