There is a long-standing debate on whether visual consciousness is confined to cognitive access measured by reportability, or whether it is rich and overflows reportability. Much of the debate in previous studies concentrated on whether information outside attentional focus could be consciously experienced and reportable. This study sought to address the debate from a new perspective, through testing whether fully attended supraliminal information is necessarily reportable with a variation of attribute amnesia. Participants were asked to judge the parity of a single number or whether a Chinese character referred to furniture. After several trials, they were unexpectedly asked to report the stimulus identity. The results consistently showed that participants could not correctly report the identity, indicating that fully attended information that was consciously perceived could sometimes overflow report. In addition to providing novel overflow evidence, these findings also have crucial implications in understanding the relationship between consciousness and working memory.

关于视觉意识是否仅限于通过可报告性衡量的认知访问，或者它是否丰富且超出可报告性，存在长期争论。先前研究中的大部分争论都集中在注意力焦点之外的信息是否可以有意识地体验和报告。本研究试图从一个新的角度来解决这一争论，通过测试完全参与的超阈值信息是否一定要报告，但具有不同的属性健忘症。参与者被要求判断单个数字的奇偶校验或汉字是否指家具。经过几次试验，他们意外地被要求报告刺激身份。结果一致表明，参与者无法正确报告身份，表明有意识地感知的完全参与的信息有时可能会溢出报告。除了提供新的溢出证据外，这些发现还对理解意识和工作记忆之间的关系具有重要意义。