The images shown in Figure 3 clearly provide strong visual evidence that emissions from specific tasks and processes can occur.
The present study aimed at clarifying this issue by investigating the neural correlates of the various kinds of conscious experiences that can occur during task performance.
Because such task-irrelevant emotional response tendencies can occur on all trials in the Emotion condition, there would be generally higher cognitive control demands in this condition relative to Neutral.
It is known that large task-/event-related signal changes can occur in large vessels leading to a contamination of BOLD maps [Lai et al., 1993; Menon et al., 1993; Segebarth et al., 1994], and that these venous changes are slower [De Martino et al., 2006].
This can occur when performing tasks such as tying a knot that requires the instruments to be pulled in opposite directions.
A number of subsequent studies have demonstrated that task-irrelevant perceptual learning in humans can occur for visual stimuli that are consistently paired with internal or external rewards, and this connection holds true for animal models as well.
Possibly, when the participants' task is to categorise items, prototype abstraction/application can occur within the test phase.
Conceptually, the different conscious experiences that can occur while performing a task requiring focused attention and the processing of external stimuli can be characterized along two dimensions: "task-relatedness" and "stimulus-dependency".
The current results show that reliable AOAs can occur during non-spatial auditory discrimination tasks in sighted subjects, consistent with incidental reports of AOAs in previous studies of non-spatial attention tasks [40], [43], [83], [84].
Perceptual learning can occur in the absence of a task and outside the window of awareness, suggesting that reward signals gate the occurrence of perceptual learning.
