Attentional routes to conscious perception Chica Martínez, Ana Belén Bartolomeo, Paolo attention conscious perception endogenous The relationships between spatial attention and conscious perception are currently the object of intense debate. Recent evidence of double dissociations between attention and consciousness cast doubt on the time-honored concept of attention as a gateway to consciousness. Here we review evidence from behavioral, neurophysiologic, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging experiments, showing that distinct sorts of spatial attention can have different effects on visual conscious perception. While endogenous, or top-down attention, has weak influence on subsequent conscious perception of near-threshold stimuli, exogenous, or bottom-up forms of spatial attention appear instead to be a necessary, although not sufficient, step in the development of reportable visual experiences. Fronto-parietal networks important for spatial attention, with peculiar inter-hemispheric differences, constitute plausible neural substrates for the interactions between exogenous spatial attention and conscious perception. 2024-11-26T08:14:40Z 2024-11-26T08:14:40Z 2012-01-18 journal article Chica Martínez, A.B. & Bartolomeo, P. Front. Psychology 3:1. [https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00001] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/97361 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00001 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ open access Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional Frontiers Media