Perceptual integration without conscious access.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America April 4, 2017 Johannes J Fahrenfort, Jonathan Van Leeuwen, Christian N L Olivers et al. 102 citations
The visual system has the remarkable ability to integrate fragmentary visual input into a perceptually organized collection of surfaces and objects, a process we refer to as perceptual integration. Despite a long tradition of perception research, it is not known whether access to consciousness is required to complete perceptual integration. To investigate this question, we manipulated access to...