Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2007 - Volume 30, Issue 5-6  

Open Peer Commentary

Broken telephone in the brain: The need for metacognitive measures

Hakwan Laua1 and Navindra Persauda1

a1 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, OX1 3UD Oxford, United Kingdom. hakwan@gmail.com http://hakwan.googlepages.com nav.persaud@utoronto.ca http://navpersaud.googlepages.com

Abstract

The fact that early visual processing has a larger capacity than later visual processing can be explained without positing distinct systems for phenomenology and cognitive accessibility. While phenomenology may overflow forced-choice reports, the later can also overestimate the former, as in the case of blindsight. Metacognitive measures of awareness offer a way to address the “methodological puzzle” of consciousness research.

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