Jonathan Van Leeuwen

Perceptual integration without conscious access.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 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...