Looking for effects of qualia on event-related brain potentials of close others in search for a cause of the similarity of qualia assumed across individuals.

ABSTRACT: Qualia, the individual instances of subjective conscious experience, are private events. However, in everyday life, we assume qualia of others and their perceptual worlds, to be similar to ours. One way this similarity is possible is if qualia of others somehow contribute to the production of qualia by our own brain and vice versa. To test this hypothesis, we focused on the mean voltages of event-related potentials (ERPs) in the time-window of the P600 component, whose amplitude correlates positively with conscious awareness. These ERPs were elicited by images of the international affective picture system in 16 pairs of friends, siblings or couples going side by side through hyperscanning without having to interact. Each of the 32 members of these 16 pairs faced one half of the screen and

SUBMITTER: Bouten S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5992535 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature