# Cognitive psychology: the experience you don’t know you have

## TL;DR

This study shows that people can be consciously aware of sounds without realizing they heard them.

## Contribution

It demonstrates the existence of unconscious awareness through a novel sound-based experiment.

## Key findings

- Participants showed signs of conscious sound detection without explicit knowledge.
- The results support the idea of phenomenal consciousness independent of awareness.

## Abstract

A recent study in Cognition provides evidence for phenomenal consciousness without knowledge thereof, by virtue of a sound detection and discrimination paradigm.