The levels of perceptual processing and the neural correlates of increasing subjective visibility

Binder, Marek; Gociewicz, Krzysztof; Windey, Bert; Koculak, Marcin; Finc, Karolina; Nikadon, Jan; Derda, Monika; Cleeremans, Axel

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2017.07.010

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“…Consistent with a role for these regions in attention monitoring and criterion setting, activation in parietal and prefrontal cortical areas have been shown to decrease not only in trials where participants reported a stimulus to be highly visible, but also in trials where participants reported the stimulus not to be visible at all, compared to intermediate subjective visibility ratings (Binder et al, 2017;Christensen et al, 2006). This nonmonotonic effect may plausibly reflect a projection of a monotonic effect of a higher-order construct (such as beliefs about sensory precision or subjective confidence) onto a content-specific 'visibility' dimension.…”

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Distinguishing absence of awareness from awareness of absence

Mazor

Fleming

2020

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Contrasting brain states when subjects are aware compared to unaware of a presented stimulus has allowed researchers to isolate candidate neural correlates of consciousness. Here we propose that an important next step in this research program is to investigate, perhaps paradoxically, brain states that covary with reports of absences of awareness. Specifically, we propose that in order to distinguish content-specific and content-invariant neural correlates of consciousness, a distinction needs to be made between the neural correlates of awareness of stimulus absence, and the neural correlates of absence of awareness (of either stimulus presence or absence). We ground this distinction in higher-order computational models of consciousness, where the state of higher-order nodes is invariant to the specific contents of awareness. To map the different levels of these models to neurophysiological correlates, we suggest two empirical approaches – inverted designs and two-dimensional awareness reports – in which reports about awareness and stimulus presence can be dissociated.

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Distinguishing absence of awareness from awareness of absence

Mazor

Fleming

2020

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“…The design of the procedure, summarised in Figure 1, was similar to the one reported in our previous study (Binder et al, 2017). The experiment was composed of two tasks introduced in separate blocks.…”

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The role of levels of processing in disentangling the ERP signatures of conscious visual processing

Derda

Koculak

Windey

et al. 2019

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…This conclusion is supported by an analysis of an additional 6 studies (10 experiments, total N = 249) for which the raw data were available to us, and which used two type 1 response options in combination with the PAS [36][37][38][39][40][41] . For these, accuracy for PAS1 increased for overall d´s ranging from 0-2 as predicted by the model calculations presented in Figures 5B and 8B.…”

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A window of subliminal perception

Sandberg¹,

Sh²,

Overgaard³

et al. 2020

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Under labels such as unconscious processing and subliminal perception, identification of stimuli falling below the subjective threshold has been found remarkably accurate in some experiments while completely at chance in others. Here, we first demonstrate the existence of a window of subliminal perception in humans using different experimental paradigms and analysis methods. We then show that the standard signal detection theory (SDT) model is unable to accounts for this window and extend it until it is. We finally compare a range of models on empirical data. The models performing best are notable for their absence of hierarchical levels, indicating that the window could be a base property of any phenomenally conscious system. The models further explain previously incompatible findings in the literature, and they allow for estimations of peaks in subthreshold perception across the spectrum of stimulus saliency, which may be used in further studies of subliminal perception.

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The levels of perceptual processing and the neural correlates of increasing subjective visibility

Cited by 19 publications

References 65 publications

Distinguishing absence of awareness from awareness of absence

Distinguishing absence of awareness from awareness of absence

The role of levels of processing in disentangling the ERP signatures of conscious visual processing

A window of subliminal perception

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