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Understanding awareness: one step closer

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Attention enhances neural and behavioral responses to visual objects, but how does this affect our conscious perception? Attending to an object increases our subjective experience of stimulus contrast, reports a study in this issue.

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Figure 1: In the task used by Carrasco and colleagues3, observers were presented with two oriented gratings on each trial, and they were instructed to report the orientation (left or right) of the grating with higher contrast.

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