ArticleFrontiers in psychology2012
Neurobiological mechanisms behind the spatiotemporal illusions of awareness used for advocating prediction or postdiction.
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- Regularities in temporal context influence the window of temporal integration.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Crossmodal Postdiction: Conscious Perception as Revisionist History.Journal of perceptual imaging · 2022Article
- Representational 'touch' and modulatory 'retouch'-two necessary neurobiological processes in thalamocortical interaction for conscious experience.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Review
- What you saw is what you will hear: Two new illusions with audiovisual postdictive effects.PloS one · 2018Article
- Time-compressed preplay of anticipated events in human primary visual cortex.Nature communications · 2017Article
- How a (sub)Cellular Coincidence Detection Mechanism Featuring Layer-5 Pyramidal Cells May Help Produce Various Visual Phenomena.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Awareness shaping or shaped by prediction and postdiction: Editorial.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Postdiction: its implications on visual awareness, hindsight, and sense of agency.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Review
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Abstract
The fact that it takes time for the brain to process information from the changing environment underlies many experimental phenomena of awareness of spatiotemporal events, including a number of astonishing illusions. These phenomena have been explained from the predictive and postdictive theoretical perspectives. Here I describe the most extensively studied phenomena in order to see how well the two perspectives can explain them. Next, the neurobiological perceptual retouch mechanism of producing stimulation awareness is characterized and its work in causing the listed illusions is described. A perspective on how brain mechanisms of conscious perception produce the phenomena supportive of the postdictive view is presented in this article. At the same time, some of the phenomena cannot be explained by the traditional postdictive account, but can be interpreted from the perceptual retouch theory perspective.
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