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Models of biased competition assume that pre-activating a visual representation in visual working memory (VWM) biases perception towards memory-matching objects. Consistent with this, it has been shown that targets suppressed by interocular competition gain prioritized access to awareness when they match VWM content. Thus far, these VWM biases during interocular suppression have been investigated with minimal levels of competition, as there was always only one target stimulus and observers only held a single item in VWM. In the current study we investigated how VWM-based modulation of access to awareness is influenced by a) multiple-item competition within the stimulus display and b) multiple-item competition within VWM. Using the method of breaking continuous flash suppression (b-CFS), we replicated the finding that information matching the content of VWM is released from interocular …