Visual entrained attention is not location specific, but it is voluntary.

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How Voluntary Is ‘voluntary’ Orienting of Attention?

HOW VOLUNTARY IS ‘VOLUNTARY’ ORIENTING OF ATTENTION? Caroline Decaix1,2, Eric Siéroff2 and Paolo Bartolomeo1,3 (1INSERM Unit 324, Centre Paul Broca, 2ter rue d’Alésia, 75014 Paris, France; 2Université René Descartes (Paris 5), Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, cnrs URA 8581, Paris, France; 3Neuroscience Department, Henri-Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France)

Attended but unseen: visual attention is not sufficient for visual awareness.

Does any one psychological process give rise to visual awareness? One candidate is selective attention-when we attend to something it seems we always see it. But if attention can selectively enhance our response to an unseen stimulus then attention cannot be a sufficient precondition for awareness. Kentridge, Heywood & Weiskrantz [Kentridge, R. W., Heywood, C. A., & Weiskrantz, L. (1999). Atten...

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