The occurrence of implicit processing of visual stimuli during inattentional blindness is still a matter of debate. To assess the evidence available in this debate, we conducted a systematic review of articles that explored whether unexpected visual stimuli presented during inattentional blindness are implicitly processed despite not being reported. Additionally, we employed meta-analysis to combine 59 behavioral experiments and investigate the statistical support for such implicit processing across experiments. Results showed that visual stimuli can be processed when unattended and unnoticed. Additionally, we reviewed the measures used to assess participants’ awareness of the unexpected stimuli. We also employed meta-analysis to search for differences in awareness of the unexpected stimuli that may result from adopting distinct criteria to categorize participants as aware or unaware. The results showed that the overall effect of awareness changed depending on whether more demanding or less demanding measures of awareness were employed. This suggests that the choice of awareness measure may influence conclusions about whether processing of the US is implicit or explicit. We discuss the implications of these results for the study of implicit processing and the role of attention in visual cognition.

在注意力不集中的失明期间视觉刺激的隐式处理的发生仍然是一个争论的问题。为了评估本次辩论中可用的证据，我们对文章进行了系统的综述，探讨了尽管没有报道，但是否可以隐式处理注意力不集中失明期间出现的意外视觉刺激。此外，我们采用荟萃分析来组合59个行为实验，并研究整个实验对此类隐式处理的统计支持。结果表明，无人看管和不注意时可以处理视觉刺激。此外，我们回顾了用于评估参与者对意外刺激意识的措施。我们还采用荟萃分析来寻找对意料之外的刺激的差异，这可能是由于采用不同的标准将参与者分类为意识或无意识而导致的。结果表明，意识的总体效果取决于采用的是要求更高还是要求更低的意识措施。这表明，提高认识措施的选择可能会影响有关美国加工是隐性还是显性的结论。我们讨论了这些结果对于隐式处理的研究以及视觉认知中注意的作用。这表明，提高认识措施的选择可能会影响有关美国加工是隐性还是显性的结论。我们讨论了这些结果对于隐式处理的研究以及视觉认知中注意的作用。这表明，提高认识措施的选择可能会影响有关美国加工是隐性还是显性的结论。我们讨论了这些结果对于隐式处理的研究以及视觉认知中注意的作用。