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The temporal frequency tuning of continuous flash suppression reveals peak suppression at very low frequencies.
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- Unconscious processing of facial race and emotional information.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- Priority access to awareness? A new 'CFS tracking' paradigm reveals no priority for fearful faces or a face inversion effect.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Deciphering temporal scales of visual awareness: insights from flicker frequency modulation in continuous flash suppression.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- CFS-crafter: An open-source tool for creating and analyzing images for continuous flash suppression experiments.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Feature-based interaction between masks and target in continuous flash suppression.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Prioritization of emotional faces is not driven by emotional content.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Color Can Shorten Breakthrough Times in Continuous Flash Suppression through Increased Salience and Task Relevance.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Continuous flash suppression: Known and unknowns.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Review
- Brief localised monocular deprivation in adults alters binocular rivalry predominance retinotopically and reduces spatial inhibition.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Suppression durations for facial expressions under breaking continuous flash suppression: effects of faces' low-level image properties.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Faces under continuous flash suppression capture attention faster than objects, but without a face-evoked steady-state visual potential: Is curvilinearity responsible for the behavioral effect?Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Eye swapping temporally modulates potency of continuous flash suppression.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Investigating the Interaction Between Form and Motion Processing: A Review of Basic Research and Clinical Evidence.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Continuous flash suppression (CFS) is a psychophysical technique where a rapidly changing Mondrian pattern viewed by one eye suppresses the target in the other eye for several seconds. Despite the widespread use of CFS to study unconscious visual processes, the temporal tuning of CFS suppression is currently unknown. In the present study we used spatiotemporally filtered dynamic noise as masking stimuli to probe the temporal characteristics of CFS. Surprisingly, we find that suppression in CFS peaks very prominently at approximately 1 Hz, well below the rates typically used in CFS studies (10 Hz or more). As well as a strong bias to low temporal frequencies, CFS suppression is greater for high spatial frequencies and increases with increasing masker contrast, indicating involvement of parvocellular/ventral mechanisms in the suppression process. These results are reminiscent of binocular rivalry, and unifies two phenomenon previously thought to require different explanations.
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