ArticleeLife2018
Attention periodically samples competing stimuli during binocular rivalry.
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- Rhythmic attentional sampling in autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
- INs and OUTs of faces in consciousness: a study of the temporal evolution of consciousness of faces during binocular rivalry.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Theta phase coherence in visual mismatch responses involved in access processing to visual awareness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Putative rhythms in attentional switching can be explained by aperiodic temporal structure.Nature human behaviour · 2022Article
- Growing evidence for separate neural mechanisms for attention and consciousness.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Review
- Evidence for neural rhythms embedded within binocular rivalry.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
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Abstract
The attentional sampling hypothesis suggests that attention rhythmically enhances sensory processing when attending to a single (~8 Hz), or multiple (~4 Hz) objects. Here, we investigated whether attention samples sensory representations that are not part of the conscious percept during binocular rivalry. When crossmodally cued toward a conscious image, subsequent changes in consciousness occurred at ~8 Hz, consistent with the rates of undivided attentional sampling. However, when attention was cued toward the suppressed image, changes in consciousness slowed to ~3.5 Hz, indicating the division of attention away from the conscious visual image. In the electroencephalogram, we found that at attentional sampling frequencies, the strength of inter-trial phase-coherence over fronto-temporal and parieto-occipital regions correlated with changes in perception. When cues were not task-relevant, these effects disappeared, confirming that perceptual changes were dependent upon the allocation of attention, and that attention can flexibly sample away from a conscious image in a task-dependent manner.
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