Feedback information transfer in the human brain reflects bistable perception in the absence of report.

ABSTRACT: In the search for the neural basis of conscious experience, perception and the cognitive processes associated with reporting perception are typically confounded as neural activity is recorded while participants explicitly report what they experience. Here, we present a novel way to disentangle perception from report using eye movement analysis techniques based on convolutional neural networks and neurodynamical analyses based on information theory. We use a bistable visual stimulus that instantiates two well-known properties of conscious perception: integration and differentiation. At any given moment, observers either perceive the stimulus as one integrated unitary object or as two differentiated objects that are clearly distinct from each other. Using electroencephalography, we show that

SUBMITTER: Canales-Johnson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10194963 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature