Conscious perception of natural images is constrained by category-related visual features.

ABSTRACT: Conscious perception is crucial for adaptive behaviour yet access to consciousness varies for different types of objects. The visual system comprises regions with widely distributed category information and exemplar-level representations that cluster according to category. Does this categorical organisation in the brain provide insight into object-specific access to consciousness? We address this question using the Attentional Blink approach with visual objects as targets. We find large differences across categories in the attentional blink. We then employ activation patterns extracted from a deep convolutional neural network to reveal that these differences depend on mid- to high-level, rather than low-level, visual features. We further show that these visual features can be used to expla

SUBMITTER: Lindh D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6739304 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature