ABSTRACT
Where attention is engaged, a standard observation is that relative to a neutral condition, valid cues lead to faster response times and/or greater accuracy, while invalid cues lead to slower response times and/or greater inaccuracy. Blindsight does provide a case of object attention (detection of targets) along with blindness to those objects (for a demonstration of an object attention effect in blindsight patients). A recent study is claimed to demonstrate that consciousness overflows attention. Christof Koch and co-workers have done experiments that they argue demonstrates consciousness in the "near absence" of attention. In recent years, some philosophers have pressed the question concerning introspective reliability leading to a skepticism about introspection of consciousness. Introspection is no less controversial than consciousness. This opens up the possibility that investigation into the nature of introspection might have a role to play in helping us assess theories of consciousness.
