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SUMMARY:Is unconscious perception real? A new paradigm for testing this qu
 estion - Yu-An Chen (University of Oxford)
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251120T173000Z
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DESCRIPTION:From a simple tilted Gabor patch to a face with complex social
  or emotional content\, prior studies suggest that people can process subl
 iminal sensory information without any reportable experience. More strikin
 gly\, they can make decisions or judgments consistent with those sublimina
 l stimuli. However\, critics question the validity of subjective awareness
  reports: no method guarantees that saying “I saw nothing” means parti
 cipants truly lacked conscious experience of the stimuli. In a seminal stu
 dy\, Peters and Lau (2015) combined metacognitive judgments with a novel b
 linding paradigm and concluded that accurate decisions occur only when sti
 muli are consciously seen\, that is\, no unconscious perception. In this t
 alk\, I follow Michel’s (2020) argument by analyzing a potential imbalan
 ce in the information used for primary versus subsequent metacognitive jud
 gments\, which could undermine Peters and Lau’s conclusion. I also propo
 se a new route that leverages the nature of human perceptual confidence ra
 tings to address this methodological challenge in studies of unconscious p
 erception.\nSpeakers:\nYu-An Chen (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Life and Mind Building - Seminar Room 1
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/237c5b08-6676-4fef-b953-96e487587ffc/
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