ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2018
Visual awareness negativity is an early neural correlate of awareness: A preregistered study with two Gabor sizes.
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- Late Positivity Does Not Meet the Criteria to be Considered a Proper Neural Correlate of Perceptual Awareness.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2020Article
- Later Positivity Reflects Post-perceptual Processes: Evidence From Immediate Detection and Delayed Detection Tasks.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Effects of a Manual Response Requirement on Early and Late Correlates of Auditory Awareness.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Electrophysiological recordings are commonly used to study the neural correlates of consciousness in humans. Previous research is inconsistent as to whether awareness can be indexed with visual awareness negativity (VAN) at about 200 ms or if it occurs later. The present study was preregistered with two main aims: First, to provide independent evidence for or against the presence of VAN, and second, to study whether stimulus size may account for the inconsistent findings. Subjects were shown low-contrast Gaussian filtered gratings (Gabor patches) in the four visual quadrants. Gabor size (large and small) was varied in different sessions and calibrated to each subject's threshold of visual awareness. Event-related potentials were derived from trials in which subjects localized the Gabors correctly to capture the difference between trials in which they reported awareness versus no awareness. Bayesian analyses revealed very strong evidence for the presence of VAN for both Gabor sizes. However, there was no evidence for or against an effect of stimulus size. The present findings provide evidence for VAN as an early neural correlate of awareness.
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