%0 Journal Article
%T Measuring away an attentional confound?
%A Claire Sergent
%A David Rosenthal
%A Hakwan Lau
%A Jorge Morales
%A Ned Block
%A Piercesare Grimaldi
%A Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel
%A Yasha Mouradi
%J Archive of "Neuroscience of Consciousness".
%D 2017
%R 10.1093/nc/nix018
%X A recent fMRI study by Webb et al. (Cortical networks involved in visual awareness independent of visual attention, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016;113:13923¨C28) proposes a new method for finding the neural correlates of awareness by matching attention across awareness conditions. The experimental design, however, seems at odds with known features of attention. We highlight logical and methodological points that are critical when trying to disentangle attention and awareness
%K awareness
%K consciousness
%K attention
%K fMRI
%K metacontrast masking
%K methodology
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6007151/