We See More Than We Can Report: "Cost Free" Color Phenomenality Outside Focal Attention

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1394-1403

  Bronfman, Zohar Z ^a   Brezis, Noam ^a   Jacobson, Hilla ^b   Usher, Marius ^a,c,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c WADHAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attention; iconic memory; phenomenal vs. access consciousness; Sperling paradigm; summary statistics; visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COLOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84904350590     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614532656     Document Type: Article

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