ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2022
Dissociating the Neural Correlates of Subjective Visibility from Those of Decision Confidence.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Re-evaluating frontopolar and temporoparietal contributions to detection and discrimination confidence.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
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- Choosing Sides: Impact of Prismatic Adaptation on the Lateralization of the Attentional System.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Consciousness Under the Spotlight: The Problem of Measuring Subjective Experience.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive scienceReview
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Abstract
A key goal of consciousness science is identifying neural signatures of being aware versus unaware of simple stimuli. This is often investigated in the context of near-threshold detection, with reports of stimulus awareness being linked to heightened activation in a frontoparietal network. However, because of reports of stimulus presence typically being associated with higher confidence than reports of stimulus absence, these results could be explained by frontoparietal regions encoding stimulus visibility, decision confidence, or both. In an exploratory analysis, we leverage fMRI data from 35 human participants (20 females) to disentangle these possibilities. We first show that, whereas stimulus identity was best decoded from the visual cortex, stimulus visibility (presence vs absence) was best decoded from prefrontal regions. To control for effects of confidence, we then selectively sampled trials before decoding to equalize confidence distributions between absence and presence responses. This analysis revealed striking differences in the neural correlates of subjective visibility in PFC ROIs, depending on whether or not differences in confidence were controlled for. We interpret our findings as highlighting the importance of controlling for metacognitive aspects of the decision process in the search for neural correlates of visual awareness.
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