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NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
卷 42, 期 6, 页码 831-835出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.11.001
关键词
vision; attention; consciousness; blindsight
An intimate relationship is often assumed between visual attention and visual awareness. Using a subject, patient GY, with the neurological condition of 'blindsight' we show that although attention may be a necessary precursor to visual awareness it is not a sufficient one. Using a Posner endogenous spatial cueing paradigm we showed that the time our subject needed to discriminate the orientation of a stimulus was reduced if he was cued to the location of the stimulus. This reaction-time advantage was obtained without any decrease in discrimination accuracy and cannot therefore be attributed to speed-error trade-off or differences in bias between cued and uncued locations. As a result of his condition GY was not aware of the stimuli to which processing was attentionally facilitated. Attention cannot, therefore be a sufficient condition for awareness. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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