Noam Brezis

We see more than we can report: "cost free" color phenomenality outside focal attention.

Psychological Science July 1, 2014 Zohar Z Bronfman, Noam Brezis, Hilla Jacobson et al. 140 citations

The distinction between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness is a subject of intensive debate. According to one view, visual experience overflows the capacity of the attentional and working memory system: We see more than we can report. According to the opposed view, this perceived richness is an illusion-we are aware only of information that we can subsequently report. This debate...