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ArticleNeuroscience of consciousness2017

Does unconscious perception really exist? Continuing the ASSC20 debate.

Megan A K Peters, Robert W Kentridge, Ian Phillips, Ned Block

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Article in Neuroscience of consciousness, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Confidence Is Detection-Like in High-Dimensional Spaces.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026
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  2. Reappraising intuitions about consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2026
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  9. Unconscious Perception of Vernier Offsets.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2024
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  10. The exclusionary approach to consciousness.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2023
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  11. The functions of consciousness in visual processing.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2023
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  14. Lack of awareness despite complex visual processing: Evidence from event-related potentials in a case of selective metamorphopsia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  15. "Chasing the first high": memory sampling in drug choice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020
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  20. Toward a Mature Science of Consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Megan A K PetersPsychology Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0248-0816
Robert W KentridgeDepartment of Psychology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
Ian PhillipsSt. Anne's College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6HS, UK.
Ned BlockDepartment of Philosophy, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID30042847
PMCPMC6007134

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