Object relations are processed with, but not without, awareness.
Neuroscience of Consciousness 2025 Shaked Palgi, Tamara Bester-Arest, Nathan Faivre et al.
The scope of unconscious integration is widely debated. Here, we examined this question, focusing specifically on deciphering the relations between two associatively related objects, in a set of five behavioral and electrophysiological experiments. Participants were presented with masked pairs of related and unrelated objects and were asked to judge their relatedness. When the masked pairs were...