ArticleRoyal Society open science2022
How much can we differentiate at a brief glance: revealing the truer limit in conscious contents through the massive report paradigm (MRP).
Article in Royal Society open science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Neural mechanisms of awareness of action.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Reappraising intuitions about consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Iconic versus working memory metacognition to evaluate the richness of perception: a registered report.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Dimensions of corvid consciousness.Animal cognition · 2025Review
- How much can children see and report about their experience of a brief glance at a natural scene?Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Lifting the veil: probing altered visual perception in derealization.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Is episodic-like memoryPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- More than words: can free reports adequately measure the richness of perception?Neuroscience of consciousness · 2024Article
- Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) show episodic-like memory through the incidental encoding of information.PloS one · 2024Article
- How much can we differentiate at a brief glance: revealing the truer limit in conscious contents through the massive report paradigm (MRP).Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Consciousness Under the Spotlight: The Problem of Measuring Subjective Experience.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive scienceReview
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Abstract
Upon a brief glance, how well can we differentiate what we see from what we do not? Previous studies answered this question as 'poorly'. This is in stark contrast with our everyday experience. Here, we consider the possibility that previous restriction in stimulus variability and response alternatives reduced what participants could express from what they consciously experienced. We introduce a novel massive report paradigm that probes the ability to differentiate what we see from what we do not. In each trial, participants viewed a natural scene image and judged whether a small image patch was a part of the original image. To examine the limit of discriminability, we also included subtler changes in the image as modification of objects. Neither the images nor patches were repeated per participant. Our results showed that participants were highly accurate (accuracy greater than 80%) in differentiating patches from the viewed images from patches that are not present. Additionally, the differentiation between original and modified objects was influenced by object sizes and/or the congruence between objects and the scene gists. Our massive report paradigm opens a door to quantitatively measure the limit of immense informativeness of a moment of consciousness.
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