A new study by Ward and colleagues (Curr. Biol. 2019;29:874–880) finds that participants use mental rotation to calculate an avatar’s perspective on a scene without any prompt to do so. This often enables them to make faster judgments about the appearance of the scene than they could make if they viewed it on their own. […]

Understanding the distinction between conscious and unconscious cognition remains a priority in psychology and neuroscience. A comprehensive neurocognitive account of conscious awareness will not be possible without a sound framework to isolate and understand unconscious information processing. Here, we provide a brain-based framework that allows the identification of unconscious processes, even with null effects on […]