?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=When+Perception+Becomes+Conscious&rft.creator=Velmans%2C+M&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psychophysics&rft.description=The+study+of+preconscious+versus+conscious+processing+has+an+extensive+history+in+cognitive+psychology%2C+dating+back+to+the+writings+of+William+James.+Much+of+the+experimental+work+on+this+issue+has+focused+on+perception%2C+conceived+of+as+input+analysis%2C+and+on+the+relation+of+consciousness+to+attentional+processing.+The+present+paper+examines+when+input+analysis+becomes+conscious+from+the+perspectives+of+cognitive+modelling%2C+methodology%2C+and+a+more+detailed+understanding+of+what+is+meant+by+%22conscious+processing.%22+Current+evidence+suggests+that+perception+becomes+conscious+at+a+late-arising+stage+of+focal-attentive+processing+concerned+with+information+integration+and+dissemination.+Reliable+criteria+for+determining+when+perception+becomes+conscious+combine+the+evidence+of+%22first-person%2C%22+phenomenological+reports+with+%22third-person%22+functional+dissociations+between+preconscious+and+conscious+processing.+There+are+three%2C+distinct+senses+in+which+a+process+may+be+said+to+be+%22conscious.%22+It+might+be+%22conscious%22+(a)+in+the+sense+that+one+is+conscious+of+the+process%2C+(b)+in+the+sense+that+the+operation+of+the+process+is+accompanied+by+consciousness+(of+its+results)+and+(c)+in+the+sense+that+consciousness+enters+into+or+causally+influences+the+process.+Consciousness+of+familiar+stimuli%2C+rather+than+entering+into+input+analysis%2C+appears+to+follow+it%2C+in+human+information+processing.+Processes+closely+associated+with+the+appearance+of+consciousness+such+as+information+integration+and+dissemination+appear+to+operate+unconsciously.+Consequently%2C+perception+appears+to+be+%22conscious%22+only+in+sense+(b).&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F838%2F1%2FBJP2web.html&rft.identifier=++Velmans%2C+M++(1999)+When+Perception+Becomes+Conscious.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F838%2F