What conscious perception is and is not for

The central hypothesis that we are seeking to find evidence for is that,

1) our subconscious is exceptionally good at finding salient stimuli in our environment;

2) the conscious brain is required to extract episodic information about our environment.

These hypotheses are implied by the two-stages of the Simultaneous Type/ Serial Token model:

Bowman, H., & Wyble, B. (2007). The simultaneous type, serial token model of temporal attention and working memory. Psychological review, 114(1), 38.

Wyble, B., Potter, M. C., Bowman, H., & Nieuwenstein, M. (2011). Attentional episodes in visual perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140(3), 488.

Wyble, B., Bowman, H., & Nieuwenstein, M. (2009). The attentional blink provides episodic distinctiveness: sparing at a cost. Journal of experimental psychology: Human perception and performance, 35(3), 787.

The following papers give evidence for 1) and 2) using rapid serial visual presentation.

Aviles, A., Bowman, H., & Wyble, B. (2020). On the limits of evidence accumulation of the preconscious percept. Cognition, 195, 104080.

Bowman, H., Filetti, M., Janssen, D., Su, L., Alsufyani, A., & Wyble, B. (2013). Subliminal salience search illustrated: EEG identity and deception detection on the fringe of awareness. PLoS One, 8(1), e54258.

Bowman, H., Filetti, M., Alsufyani, A., Janssen, D., & Su, L. (2014). Countering countermeasures: Detecting identity lies by detecting conscious breakthrough. PloS one, 9(3), e90595.

The following document contains a proof that verifies a formulation of our probability of first seeing idea, which is central to Aviles, A., Bowman, H., & Wyble, B. (2020).

Formal treatment of evidence accum.

The following papers come at the consciousness question from study of the perceptual moment, as it arises in lag-1 sparing in the attentional blink,

Pincham, H. L., Bowman, H., & Szucs, D. (2016). The experiential blink: Mapping the cost of working memory encoding onto conscious perception in the attentional blink. Cortex, 81, 35-49.

Jones, W., Pincham, H., Gootjes-Dreesbach, E. L., & Bowman, H. (2020). Fleeting perceptual experience and the possibility of Recalling Without Seeing. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-19.

Simione, L., Akyurek, E. G., Vastola, V., Raffone, A., & Bowman, H. (2017). Illusions of integration are subjectively impenetrable: Phenomenological experience of Lag 1 percepts during dual-target RSVP. Consciousness and cognition, 51, 181-192.