Reversal negativity and bistable stimuli: Attention, awareness, or something else?

Intaitė, Monika; Koivisto, Mika; Rukšėnas, Osvaldas

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2010.06.002

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“…Intaitė et al (2010) argue that the RN does not reflect changes in conscious perception because in one of their conditions, exogenous reversals of unambiguous Necker cubes did not elicit an RN. It is justifiably assumed that any correlate of conscious perceptual change found for endogenous reversals of ambiguous stimuli should also be apparent for exogenous reversals of unambiguous stimulus variants.…”

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“…The aRN was strongest bilaterally at fronto-central locations while the visual RN is typically restricted to parietal and occipital sites (Pitts et al, 2007, 2008; but see Intaitė et al, 2010; Kornmeier and Bach, 2012). Similar to the visual RN, the aRN temporally overlaps the N1/P2 but does not appear to reflect a modulation of the N1 or P2 peaks as evidenced by marked differences in scalp topography, i.e., the N1 and P2 peaks showed a broad central or fronto-central distribution centered on the midline, while the aRN was clearly bilateral.…”

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“…In order to time-lock electrophysiological recordings to stimulus onset, a number of studies have employed intermittent (as opposed to constant) stimulus presentation methods (Leopold et al, 2002; Kornmeier and Bach, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012; Kornmeier et al, 2007, 2009, 2014; Pitts et al, 2007, 2008; Britz et al, 2009; Intaitė et al, 2010, 2013, 2014; Ehm et al, 2011; Pitts and Britz, 2011). Intermittent paradigms, particularly those in which each trial consists of a brief stimulus (e.g., ~800 ms stimulus duration) followed by a brief blank interval (e.g., ~400 ms inter-stimulus interval (ISI)), have been shown to constrain perceptual reversals to occur only at stimulus-onset while approximating reversal rates found in constant presentation paradigms, i.e., reversals occur every ~2–6 s (Orbach et al, 1963, 1966; Leopold et al, 2002; Britz et al, 2009; Kornmeier et al, 2009).…”

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“…Based on the estimated locations of their neural generators as well as their timing and sensitivity to top-down and task-based manipulations, it has been suggested that the RN is a neural marker of the transition between the two perceptual representations (but see Intaitė et al, 2010), while the LPC reflects the outcome of this perceptual change, e.g., the updating of working memory required to perform the perceptual-reporting task (Pitts et al, 2008, 2009; Pitts and Britz, 2011). …”

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“…While a number of experiments have replicated the RN and LPC effects using a variety of stimuli and presentation parameters (e.g., Kornmeier and Bach, 2004; Pitts et al, 2007; Britz et al, 2009; Intaitė et al, 2010), analogous reversal-related components have not yet been identified in sensory modalities other than vision. The most well developed bistable auditory paradigm to date consists of a melodic ABA sequence that can be perceived as two types of continuous patterns: a repeating lo-hi-lo triplet, or two continuous streams at different frequencies (Bregman, 1994; Gutschalk et al, 2005; van Noorden, unpublished).…”

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Auditory event-related potentials associated with perceptual reversals of bistable pitch motion

Davidson

Pitts

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Previous event-related potential (ERP) experiments have consistently identified two components associated with perceptual transitions of bistable visual stimuli, the “reversal negativity” (RN) and the “late positive complex” (LPC). The RN (~200 ms post-stimulus, bilateral occipital-parietal distribution) is thought to reflect transitions between neural representations that form the moment-to-moment contents of conscious perception, while the LPC (~400 ms, central-parietal) is considered an index of post-perceptual processing related to accessing and reporting one’s percept. To explore the generality of these components across sensory modalities, the present experiment utilized a novel bistable auditory stimulus. Pairs of complex tones with ambiguous pitch relationships were presented sequentially while subjects reported whether they perceived the tone pairs as ascending or descending in pitch. ERPs elicited by the tones were compared according to whether perceived pitch motion changed direction or remained the same across successive trials. An auditory reversal negativity (aRN) component was evident at ~170 ms post-stimulus over bilateral fronto-central scalp locations. An auditory LPC component (aLPC) was evident at subsequent latencies (~350 ms, fronto-central distribution). These two components may be auditory analogs of the visual RN and LPC, suggesting functionally equivalent but anatomically distinct processes in auditory vs. visual bistable perception.

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Auditory event-related potentials associated with perceptual reversals of bistable pitch motion

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Pitts

2014

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High-altitude exposure leads to increased modularity of brain functional network with the increased occupation of attention resources in early processing of visual working memory

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Huang

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Cogn Neurodyn

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Consciously choosing and shaping what to comprehend: a mixed-methods approach to first-person aspects of mental agency in ambiguous speech perception

Wagemann,

Walter

2024

Curr Psychol

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Speech perception plays a key role in many fields of human development and social life but is often impaired by ambiguities on various levels of processing. While these phenomena have been extensively researched in the cognitive (neuro-) sciences according to empirical paradigms that adhere to the third-person perspective of externally measurable behavior, their first-personal and agentive dimensions remain mostly elusive. However, particularly the latter should not be neglected as they can in principle not completely be mapped on quantitative data but are crucial for people in lifeworld situations. We explored this point in the contexts of cognitive penetrability and mental action and conducted a mixed-methods study with qualitative reports on speech perceptual reversal (N = 63) as part of a series of related studies on other modalities. Exposed to respective stimuli, one half of the participants was instructed to voluntarily change their verbal percept, while the other half were told to hold a deliberately chosen word. Qualitative data analysis revealed four typical forms of mental activity, various strategies, and accompanying forms of intention and metacognitive feelings. On the one hand, this activity structure replicates that found in already published studies on vision and non-linguistic audition and thus lends itself to refinement of Posner and Petersen’s (Annual Reviews in Neuroscience, 13, 25–42, 1990) classic model of attentional shift. On the other hand, statistical testing of the quantified data strengthened our hypotheses about mental activities across conditions and modalities, thus also arguing for a cultivable agentive attention awareness in speech perception that even penetrates early stages of speech processing.

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Reversal negativity and bistable stimuli: Attention, awareness, or something else?

Cited by 25 publications

References 29 publications

Auditory event-related potentials associated with perceptual reversals of bistable pitch motion

Auditory event-related potentials associated with perceptual reversals of bistable pitch motion

High-altitude exposure leads to increased modularity of brain functional network with the increased occupation of attention resources in early processing of visual working memory

Consciously choosing and shaping what to comprehend: a mixed-methods approach to first-person aspects of mental agency in ambiguous speech perception

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