The Relationship between Visual Awareness, Attention, and Report.

Introduction
Attention and awareness seem to be intimately related. Intuitively, it seems logical that we become aware of events that we attend to, whereas information outside the scope of our attention remains undetected. Indeed, some have argued that there is a tight relationship between attention and awareness (Posner, 1994; O'Regan and Noe, 2001), whereas others have claimed that attention and awareness are different (Lamme, 2003). Although attention and awareness are difficult to disentangle in practice, in a recent paper in The Journal of Neuroscience, Wyart and Tallon-Baudry (2008) elegantly demonstrated that distinct neural processes might be involved in both functions.