How is phenomenal consciousness related to attention?

Readings

Prinz (2000). A neurofunctional theory of visual consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition 9 (2), 243-59.
Mack and Rock (1998) Inattentional Blindness MIT Press.
Christof Koch & Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Attention and Consciousness: Two Distinct Brain Processes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2007) 11, 16-22
Chris Mole, “Attention in the Absence of Consciousness?” forthcoming in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Chris Mole, “Attention and Consciousness”, Journal of Consciousness Studies.
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/demos.html

Change blindness = Failure to notice large changes in the visual scene occurring in full view.
Inattentional blindness = Failure to detect unexpected objects that are not under visual attention.
Attentional blink
One proposal - the richness of visual experience is an illusion. We see only what we attend to.

Perception of non-attended area - the gist of a photograph
Male/female, famous/not-famous face discrimination in non-attended periphery (but cannot distinguish rotated 'T' from rotated 'L')

Commonsense psychology suggests that it is impossible. "X attends to Y" entails "X is conscious of Y".

Priming of invisible words being attended to
Nudes of opposite sex suppressed by continuous flash attract attention
Attention to target in blindfield improves reaction time in blindsight subject GY

Shows only attention to a location without conscious awareness of the object at that location.
Fails to show that it is possible to attend to an object without being consciously aware of it.

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Attention necessary for consciousness (but might not be sufficient).
Visual consciousness a matter of attention directing information from sensory systems into short-term memory.

Intriligator and Cavanagh (2001). The Spatial Resolution of Visual Attention. Cognitive Psychology, 43, 171-216.
According to Block, subjects have visual experience of the lines as individually distinct even though they cannot attend individually to some of the lines.
Aerodontalgia - perhaps there is P-consciousness depsite the lack of attention.