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What is the difference between conscious and unconscious responses to sensory stimuli?

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Unconscious perception is inferred when a stimulus influences behaviors and/or neural activity while the subject reports being unaware of it. Conscious perception and attention are difficult to study, partly because their relation to each other is not fully understood.
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