Attention and consciousness are tightly entwined. Are they one and the same? Or can they be dissociated? What is the function of consciousness? We use various psychophysical and neuroimaging techniques to tackle these questions.
Hsieh, P.-J., Colas, J.T., and Kanwisher, N. (in press). Unconscious pop-out: attentional capture by unseen feature singletons only when top-town attention is available. Psychological Science.
Unconscious perception: We examine what information can still be processed without awareness by measuring the behavioral and neural consequences of unconsciously presented stimuli.