A deeply challenging and popular question concerns what information is preserved during processing of invisible stimuli. Can an invisible stimulus reach processing stages commonly attributed to high-level semantic or cognitive processing? Continuous flash suppression (CFS) is a perceptual suppression technique that provides a means to test this question because it allows for keeping stimuli invisible for considerably more time than traditional suppression methods. Over the past 15 years, a substantive literature has accumulated and parts of this literature suggest that high-level processing of unseen stimuli as integrated, semantic entities can indeed occur.
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