A recent paper by C. Sergent and others has been commented on by R. Kentridge (citations below). They showed that attention to the visual space where a stimulus was, but is now gone, can bring that stimulus into consciousness. This retroperception effect can occur as late as 400 ms after stimulus presentation ends.
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Sergent, C., Wyart, V., Babo-Rebelo, M., Cohen, L., Naccache, L. & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2013). Cueing Attention after the Stimulus Is Gone Can Retrospectively Trigger Conscious Perception, Current Biology, 23 (2) 150-155. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.047
Kentridge, R. (2013). Visual Attention: Bringing the Unseen Past into View, Current Biology, 23 (2) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.056
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