Dissociable Neural Information Dynamics of Perceptual Integration and Differentiation during Bistable Perception.

ABSTRACT: At any given moment, we experience a perceptual scene as a single whole and yet we may distinguish a variety of objects within it. This phenomenon instantiates two properties of conscious perception: integration and differentiation. Integration is the property of experiencing a collection of objects as a unitary percept and differentiation is the property of experiencing these objects as distinct from each other. Here, we evaluated the neural information dynamics underlying integration and differentiation of perceptual contents during bistable perception. Participants listened to a sequence of tones (auditory bistable stimuli) experienced either as a single stream (perceptual integration) or as two parallel streams (perceptual differentiation) of sounds. We computed neurophysiological indi

SUBMITTER: Canales-Johnson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7325715 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature