1. IntroductionFrom sensory processes to conscious perception

paradigm, visually presented information sporadically fails to reach awareness. It was found that the Every waking moment, the brain is bombarded with an endless stream of incoming sensory information. A relatively minuscule amount of this sensory input is consciously perceived (see Box 1). In order to empirically assess the introspective phenomena of conscious perception, experi-ments usually obtain a measurement of verbal report (also termed experiential report) where the Consciousness and Cognition*magnitude and time course of activation within the anterior cingulate (BA 32), medial prefrontal cortex (BA 9), and frontopolar cortex (BA 10) predicted whether or not information was consciously perceived during the critical period for the attentional blink. These results are discussed in light of a neural framewor