ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2014
Multisensory constraints on awareness.
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- The hidden structure of consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Zoomed out: digital media use and depersonalization experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Invisible Flashes Alter Perceived Sound Location.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Probing Electrophysiological Indices of Perceptual Awareness across Unisensory and Multisensory Modalities.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2018Article
- Auditory and visual scene analysis: an overview.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Consciousness is more than meets the eye: a call for a multisensory study of subjective experience.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2017Article
- Designing sensory-substitution devices: Principles, pitfalls and potential1.Restorative neurology and neuroscience · 2016Review
- A dynamical framework to relate perceptual variability with multisensory information processing.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Editorial: Perception-Cognition Interface and Cross-Modal Experiences: Insights into Unified Consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- The Complex Interplay Between Multisensory Integration and Perceptual Awareness.Multisensory research · 2016Review
- Large Scale Functional Brain Networks Underlying Temporal Integration of Audio-Visual Speech Perception: An EEG Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- Congruent tactile stimulation reduces the strength of visual suppression during binocular rivalry.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- A spatially collocated sound thrusts a flash into awareness.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2015Article
- Suppressed visual looming stimuli are not integrated with auditory looming signals: Evidence from continuous flash suppression.i-Perception · 2015Article
- Perceptual awareness and its neural basis: bridging experimental and theoretical paradigms.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2014Article
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Abstract
Given that multiple senses are often stimulated at the same time, perceptual awareness is most likely to take place in multisensory situations. However, theories of awareness are based on studies and models established for a single sense (mostly vision). Here, we consider the methodological and theoretical challenges raised by taking a multisensory perspective on perceptual awareness. First, we consider how well tasks designed to study unisensory awareness perform when used in multisensory settings, stressing that studies using binocular rivalry, bistable figure perception, continuous flash suppression, the attentional blink, repetition blindness and backward masking can demonstrate multisensory influences on unisensory awareness, but fall short of tackling multisensory awareness directly. Studies interested in the latter phenomenon rely on a method of subjective contrast and can, at best, delineate conditions under which individuals report experiencing a multisensory object or two unisensory objects. As there is not a perfect match between these conditions and those in which multisensory integration and binding occur, the link between awareness and binding advocated for visual information processing needs to be revised for multisensory cases. These challenges point at the need to question the very idea of multisensory awareness.
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