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ArticleCommunications psychology2025

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas.

Carina Forster, Tilman Stephani, Martin Grund, Eleni Panagoulas, Esra Al, Simon M Hofmann, Vadim V Nikulin, Arno Villringer

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Article in Communications psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  3. Excitability Modulations of Somatosensory Perception Do Not Depend on Feedforward Neuronal Population Spikes.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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Carina ForsterMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Leipzig, Germany. carinaforster0611@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5827-4387
Tilman StephaniMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3323-3874
Martin GrundMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1487-8506
Eleni PanagoulasMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Leipzig, Germany.
Esra AlMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Leipzig, Germany.
Simon M HofmannMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Leipzig, Germany.
Vadim V NikulinMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Leipzig, Germany.
Arno VillringerMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2604-2404

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Abstract

Perception is biased by expectations and previous actions. Pre-stimulus brain oscillations are a potential candidate for implementing biases in the brain. In two EEG studies (43 and 39 participants) on somatosensory near-threshold detection, we investigated the pre-stimulus neural correlates of an (implicit) previous choice bias and an explicit bias. The explicit bias was introduced by informing participants about stimulus probability on a single-trial level (volatile context) or block-wise (stable context). Behavioural analysis confirmed adjustments in the decision criterion and confidence ratings according to the cued probabilities and previous choice-induced biases. Pre-stimulus beta power with distinct sources in sensory and higher-order cortical areas predicted explicit and implicit biases, respectively, on a single subject level and partially mediated the impact of previous choice and stimulus probability on the detection response. We suggest pre-stimulus beta oscillations in distinct brain areas as a neural correlate of explicit and implicit biases in somatosensory perception.

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