No iconic memory without attention.
Consciousness and cognition February 1, 2016 Arien Mack, Muge Erol, Jason Clarke et al. 58 citations
More than half of participants failed to notice when a letter matrix was completely absent or distorted, a phenomenon called inattentional blindness. These findings provide strong evidence that iconic memory requires attention and that conscious perception does as well, contradicting the idea that iconic memory has a phenomenal experience component independent of attention.