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Consciousness and top-down selective attention are related as distinct, dissociable phenomena that can be manipulated independently, as evidenced by psychophysical and neurophysiological findings [1], [2], and [3]. The relationship is further defined by the scholarly debate regarding whether these processes can occur without one another [4], [5], and [6], or even exert opposing effects [7].
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(PDF) Unifying Theories of Consciousness, Attention, and ... academia.edu 5 facts
claimTop-down attention and consciousness can have opposing effects.
claimTop-down attention and consciousness are distinct phenomena that do not need to occur together and can be manipulated using distinct paradigms.
perspectiveChristof Koch and Naotsugu Tsuchiya argue that consciousness and top-down attention are distinct processes that can be disassociated under specific circumstances.
claimThe author of the 2018 paper argues that the belief that consciousness can exist without attention, or that high-level top-down attention can exist without consciousness, stems from a failure to recognize the various forms that attention and consciousness can take.
claimPsychophysical and neurophysiological evidence supports a dissociation between top-down attention and consciousness, including findings that subjects can attend to perceptually invisible objects.