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ARTICLE IN PRESS TICS 361 Review TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences Vol.xx No.xx Monthxxxx Psychophysical magic: rendering the visible ‘invisible’ Chai-Youn Kim and Randolph Blake Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37203, USA What are the neural correlates of conscious visual neural states, we must find ways to render an otherwise awareness? Tackling this question requires contrasting visible stimulus invisible. In this article, we describe neural correlates of stimulus processing culminating in various psychophysical techniques for manipulating visual awareness with neural correlates of stimulus visual awareness and evaluate the strengths and weak- processing unaccompanied by awareness. To produce nesses of those techniques. We will not discuss exper- these two neural states, one must be able to erase an iments that have used these techniques in otherwise visible stimulus from awareness. This article neurophysiological or brain imaging studies to get at describes and assesses visual phenomena involving NCVA; many of those studies have been reviewed else- dissociation of physical stimulation and conscious where [5,6]. Nor will we discuss in detail the thorny awareness: degraded stimulation, visual masking, visual methodological issues involved in verifying whether or crowding, bistable figures, binocular rivalry, motion- not a person is consciously aware of a visual stimulus induced blindness, inattentional