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 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...