Assessing introspective awareness of attention capture

Attention Capture , Orienting , and Awareness

Assessing error awareness without relying on introspective judgment?

1 Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany 2 Day Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, University Clinic Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 3 Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands 4 Institute of Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany *Correspondence:...

Capture of Attention to Threatening Stimuli without Perceptual Awareness

Visual images that convey threatening information can automatically capture attention. One example is an object looming in the direction of the observer-presumably because such a stimulus signals an impending collision. A critical question for understanding the relationship between attention and conscious awareness is whether awareness is required for this type of prioritized attentional select...

Introspective access to implicit shifts of attention.

Literature in metacognition has systematically rejected the possibility of introspective access to complex cognitive processes. This situation derives from the difficulty of experimentally manipulating cognitive processes while abiding by the two contradictory constraints. First, participants must not be aware of the experimental manipulation, otherwise they run the risk of incorporating their ...

Pop-out without awareness: unseen feature singletons capture attention only when top-down attention is available.

Visual pop-out occurs when a unique visual target (e.g., a feature singleton) is present in a set of homogeneous distractors. However, the role of visual awareness in this process remains unclear. In the experiments reported here, we showed that even though subjects were not aware of a suppressed pop-out display, their subsequent performance on an orientation-discrimination task was significant...