Seeing the invisible: The scope and limits of unconscious processing in binocular rivalry

Z Lin, S He - Nature Precedings, 2008 - nature.com
When an image is presented to one eye and a very different image is presented to the
corresponding location of the other eye, they compete for conscious representation, such …

Binocular rivalry: frontal activity relates to introspection and action but not to perception

S Frässle, J Sommer, A Jansen, M Naber… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
When two dissimilar stimuli are presented to the eyes, perception alternates between
multiple interpretations, a phenomenon dubbed binocular rivalry. Numerous recent imaging …

Object-based attention determines dominance in binocular rivalry

JF Mitchell, GR Stoner, JH Reynolds - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
A question of long-standing interest to philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists is
how the brain selects which signals enter consciousness,. Binocular rivalry and attention …

How much of the “unconscious” is just pre–threshold?

MW Fahle, T Stemmler, KM Spang - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Visual awareness is a specific form of consciousness. Binocular rivalry, the alternation of
visual consciousness resulting when the two eyes view differing stimuli, allows one to …

Human single neuron activity precedes emergence of conscious perception

H Gelbard-Sagiv, L Mudrik, MR Hill, C Koch… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Identifying the neuronal basis of spontaneous changes in conscious experience in the
absence of changes in the external environment is a major challenge. Binocular rivalry, in …

Hierarchy of cortical responses underlying binocular rivalry

SH Lee, R Blake, DJ Heeger - Nature neuroscience, 2007 - nature.com
During binocular rivalry, physical stimulation is dissociated from conscious visual
awareness. Human brain imaging reveals a tight linkage between the neural events in …

A new no-report paradigm reveals that face cells encode both consciously perceived and suppressed stimuli

JK Hesse, DY Tsao - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
A powerful paradigm to identify neural correlates of consciousness is binocular rivalry,
wherein a constant visual stimulus evokes a varying conscious percept. It has recently been …

Dissociating conscious and unconscious influences on visual detection effects

T Stein, MV Peelen - Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
The scope of unconscious processing is highly debated, with recent studies showing that
even high-level functions such as perceptual integration and category-based attention occur …

Toward a theory of consciousness: a review of the neural correlates of inattentional blindness

BT Hutchinson - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The neuroscientific study of consciousness involves examining candidate markers of
consciousness under conditions where awareness varies. One such method for …

The human visual system differentially represents subjectively and objectively invisible stimuli

T Stein, D Kaiser, JJ Fahrenfort, S Van Gaal - PLoS biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The study of unconscious processing requires a measure of conscious awareness.
Awareness measures can be either subjective (based on participant's report) or objective …