Perceptual awareness of near-threshold tones scales gradually with auditory cortex activity and pupil dilation

L Doll, AR Dykstra, A Gutschalk - Iscience, 2024‏ - cell.com
Negative-going responses in sensory cortex co-vary with perceptual awareness of sensory
stimuli. Given that this awareness negativity has also been observed for undetected stimuli …

The influence of spatial and temporal attention on visual awareness—a behavioral and ERP study

K Ciupińska, W Orłowska, A Zębrowski, L Łępa… - Cerebral …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Whether attention is a prerequisite of perceptual awareness or an independent and
dissociable process remains a matter of debate. Importantly, understanding the relation …

[HTML][HTML] Unconscious Processing Contaminates Objective Measures of Conscious Perception: Evidence From the Liminal Prime Paradigm

N Micher, D Mazenko, D Lamy - Journal of Cognition, 2024‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Assessing unconscious processing requires a valid measure of conscious perception.
However, the two measures most commonly used, subjective reports and forced-choice …

Perceptual versus attentional impairments of conscious access: Distinct neural mechanisms despite equal task performance

S Noorman, T Stein, JJ Fahrenfort, S van Gaal - bioRxiv, 2023‏ - biorxiv.org
This study investigates failures in conscious access resulting from either weak sensory input
(perceptual impairments) or unattended input (attentional impairments). Participants viewed …