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January 15, 2021
Anna Eiserbeck, Alexander Enge, Milena Rabovsky et al.
4 citations
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Conscious perception during the attentional blink appears to be a graded rather than an all-or-none phenomenon. In an event-related potential study with 32 participants, detection of face targets was assessed using objective accuracy, subjective visibility ratings, and brain responses. Behavioral results showed a graded pattern of visual awareness, and corresponding graded differences were observed in the N1, N2, and P3 brain components across visibility levels. These findings suggest that conscious perception during the attentional blink can occur in a graded fashion.
September 2, 2025
Zefan Zheng, Robert Chis-Ciure, Peter Thestrup Waade et al.
1 citation
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Consciousness science is fragmented, with theories operating orthogonally and accumulating anomalies. The principle of recurrency—functional and architectural feedback loops—offers a unifying scaffold. All theories tacitly invoke feedback loops and can be re-expressed along a single axis of recursion. Four nested levels (cellular, local inter-areal, global, and lateral) map onto state, phenomenal content, manipulative access, and experiential similarity, tying evolved anatomy to phenomenon. The phenomenal-versus-access distinction dissolves into a graded cascade where deeper recursion expands reportable variables. Recurrence is evolutionarily favored, rebutting feed-forward objections, while brain-body loops ground selfhood. Clinically, targeting recurrent pathways promises new biomarkers and alleviation in disorders of consciousness.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
March 4, 2022
Anna Eiserbeck, Alexander Enge, Milena Rabovsky et al.
Visual awareness during the attentional blink can occur in a graded rather than an all-or-none pattern. In an event-related potential study with 32 participants, subjective visibility ratings of face targets on a perceptual awareness scale revealed graded differences in the N1, N2, and P3 brain components across visibility levels. A classification task preceding the ratings tracked task performance. The findings suggest that conscious perception during the attentional blink is not strictly all-or-none but can vary in degree, supporting graded theories of visual consciousness.