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Lecture 24: Attention and Awareness

Examines how perceptual processing differs when information is consciously experienced and when it is not.

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MIT OpenCourseWare Nancy Kanwisher intermediate 57 min

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Connects the perception route to questions about awareness without assuming that attention and consciousness are interchangeable.

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