The MIT Press eBooks
December 16, 2025
Dominique Lamy, Nitzan Micher
The experimental approach adopted by cognitive psy chol ogy researchers (and to some extent also, by most cognitive neuroscience researchers) when investigating consciousness is to target the transition between unconscious and conscious vision.As a consequence, and somewhat ironically, the study of conscious experience is de facto mostly the study of what conscious experience is not.In this...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
July 22, 2025
François Stockart, Maor Schreiber, Pietro Amerio et al.
20 citations
The scope of unconscious processing has long been, and still remains, a hotly debated issue. This is driven in part by the current diversity of methods to manipulate and measure perceptual consciousness. Here, we provide ten recommendations and nine outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing. These...
Consciousness and Cognition
October 1, 2020
Eyal Alef Ophir, Guido Hesselmann, Dominique Lamy
5 citations
Our ability to perceive two events in close temporal succession is severely limited, a phenomenon known as the attentional blink. While the blink has served as a popular tool to prevent conscious perception, there is less research on its causes, and in particular on the role of conscious perception of the first event in triggering it. In three experiments, we disentangled the roles of spatial...
Nature Human Behaviour
February 1, 2019
M. Michel, Diane M Beck, Ned Block et al.
Scientific research on consciousness is critical to multiple scientific, clinical, and ethical issues. The growth of the field could also be beneficial to several areas including neurology and mental health research. To achieve this goal, we need to set funding priorities carefully and address problems such as job creation and potential media misrepresentation.