In 2 experiments, the authors used a process dissociation procedure (Jacoby, 1991) to separately examine the effects of aging on automatic and consciously controlled memory processes. In Experiment 1, a group of young adults in either a full-attention or divided-attention condition were compared with a group of elderly adults on a fame judgment task. Both age and divided attention had a detrime...

I am grateful to Bradley Richards and J. H. Taylor for their thoughtful critiques and for the chance to clarify and re-think the main line of argument in ‘‘The Grain of Vision and the Grain of Attention’’ (Block 2013). My article concerned peripheral vision. Much of normal vision is peripheral. The fovea is the central area of the retina that is needed for fine discrimination, for example in re...

Have social media and other forms of digital tracing reduced a person’s ability to physically disappear after they consciously decide to?

This article presents a refined theory of paratextuality and bridges the gap between Kathryn Batchelor’s understanding paratexts as “consciously crafted threshold” risk paratext’s “collapse into vastness ‘the context’” through new form paratextual relationship: collateral paratextuality. Doing so facilitates investigations how audiences engage with complex constellations materials in digital sp...

The mirror neuron system may help us understand how others act and what they do. A recent study has shown that consciously reflecting on their intentions additionally recruits mentalizing areas.

Under natural viewing conditions, a single depthful percept of the world is consciously seen. When dissimilar images are presented to corresponding regions of the two eyes, binocular rivalry may occur, during which the brain consciously perceives alternating percepts through time. How do the same brain mechanisms that generate a single depthful percept of the world also cause perceptual bistabi...