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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • The processing of unattended visual stimuli during inattentional blindness is debated.
  • Understanding implicit processing is key to visual cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically review evidence on implicit processing of visual stimuli during inattentional blindness.
  • To statistically assess implicit processing using meta-analysis of behavioral experiments.
  • To examine how awareness measures influence conclusions about implicit vs. explicit processing.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic literature review of studies on inattentional blindness and implicit visual processing.
  • Meta-analysis of 59 behavioral experiments to quantify the effect of implicit processing.
  • Meta-analysis to compare awareness measures and their impact on study outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Evidence supports that visual stimuli can be processed implicitly when unattended.
  • The choice of awareness measurement criteria significantly alters conclusions about implicit processing.
  • Less demanding awareness measures suggest more implicit processing than more demanding ones.

Conclusions:

  • Implicit processing of unattended visual stimuli occurs.
  • Awareness measurement is critical and can bias findings on implicit vs. explicit processing.
  • Attention's role in visual cognition is complex and influenced by measurement techniques.