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In the last 20 years there has been a burgeoning of research in experimental psychology on nonconscious perception. Much of the impetus for this activity has come from Benjamin Libet’s troubling experiments on the formative interval of perception.
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Massumi, B. (2015). The Crannies of the Present. In: Grant, S., McNeilly, J., Veerapen, M. (eds) Performance and Temporalisation. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410276_7
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