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SUBMITTER: van Boxtel JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2889341 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Boxtel Jeroen J A JJ Tsuchiya Naotsugu N Koch Christof C
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100427 19
The brain's ability to handle sensory information is influenced by both selective attention and consciousness. There is no consensus on the exact relationship between these two processes and whether they are distinct. So far, no experiment has simultaneously manipulated both. We carried out a full factorial 2 x 2 study of the simultaneous influences of attention and consciousness (as assayed by visibility) on perception, correcting for possible concurrent changes in attention and consciousness. ...[more]