Damage to the hippocampus may deprive a patient of conscious access to memory, while damage to Area V1 may deprive a patient of conscious access to visual percepts.
"The vast majority of stuff that goes on in our brain we do not have conscious access to," he said.
Babies probably have no conscious access to moral notions, no idea why certain acts are good or bad.
We seek whether humans have explicit and conscious access to the saliency computations believed to contribute to guiding attention and eye movements.
Neuronal theories of conscious access tentatively relate conscious perception to the integration and global broadcasting of information across distant cortical and thalamic areas [1 6].
Murakami insists that, when he's not writing, he is an absolutely ordinary man — his creativity, he says, is a "black box" to which he has no conscious access.
The people, on the point of departing, were being revealed as the playthings of their inner life, a life to which they had no conscious access.
Zeman adds that people with aphantasia may be able to form visual images, but just don't have conscious access to them.
If this is true, it might be that synaesthetes provide us with an unusual amount of conscious access to what are usually unconscious processes.
Our results support previous claims of dissociations between some forms of spatial attention and conscious perception, but also highlight the importance of exogenous orienting on the selection of information for conscious access.
"Sometimes nonconscious effects can be bigger in sheer magnitude than conscious ones," Dr. Schaller said, "because we can't moderate stuff we don't have conscious access to, and the goal stays active".
