title: Rich conscious perception outside focal attention.
abstract: Can we consciously see more items at once than can be held in visual working memory? This question has eluded resolution because the ultimate evidence is subjects' reports in which phenomenal consciousness is filtered through working memory. However, a new technique makes use of the fact that unattended 'ensemble properties' can be detected 'for free' without decreasing working memory capacity.
authors.affiliation: New York University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Ned
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Block
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011601:Psychophysics; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*