注意力與意識

My work in the area of consciousness has ironically focused on the amount of unconscious processing that can be done without subjective awareness. For example, spatial layout of distractors in a visual search task can be learned and used unconsciously (contextual cueing) with probabilistic memory strength (Tseng et al., 2011), a slightly shifted frame can be processed unconsciously and affect subsequent spatial judgments (Lathrop et al., 2011), action-related information can be processed and remembered to enhance guessing performance (Tseng et al., 2010). Currently I am trying to blend this line of research with my deception research in order to develop ways to tap into unconscious information processing in the context of detection of deception.

In addition, we have also done some interesting work in synaesthesia. For example, grapheme-color synaesthetes would experience a change in color percept when they look at a rotating letter that changes its identity as it rotates (e.g., a letter E rotating clock-wise would become letter M, number 3, and letter W), but only if they consciously recognize that letter/number in that new identity in the first place (Bridgeman et al.,, 2010). 

See some of our work in this area below:

Gupta, A., Lo, Y. H., Cheng, T., & Tseng, P. (2024). The sustenance and retention of perspectival shape representations. Consciousness and Cognition, 126, 103788. [WEB]

Rawal, A. & Tseng, P. (2021). The effect of visual statistical learning in RSVP: Implicit learning or stream location artifact? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(8), 1246-1263. [PDF]

Lane, T. J., Liou, T. H., Kung, Y. C., Tseng, P., & Wu, C. W. (2024). Functional blindsight and its diagnosis. Frontiers in Neurology, 15, 1207115. [PDF]

Ke, S. C., Gupta, A., Lo, Y. H., Ting, C. C., & Tseng, P. (2023). The hidden arrow in the FedEx logo: Do we really unconsciously “see” it?. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8(1), 40. [PDF]

Cheng, T., Lin, Y., & Tseng, P. (2022). Taking conceptual issues really seriously: One next step for the cognitive science of consciousness. Cognitive Science, 46(11), e13213. [PDF]

Tseng, P., Juan, C.H. (2013) Virtual reality in the neuroscience of multisensory integration and consciousness of bodily self. Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, 2(4), 387-392. [PDF]

Tseng, P., Hsu, T.Y., Tzeng, O.J.L., Hung, D.L., Juan, C.H. (2011) Probabilities in implicit learning. Perception, 40, 822-829.

Lathrop, B., Bridgeman, B., Tseng, P. (2011) Perception in the absence of attention: evidence of perceptual processing in the roelofs effect during conditions of inattentional blindness. Perception, 40, 1104-1119. [PDF]