Brain Representation in Conscious and Unconscious Vision.
Journal of cognition January 1, 2025 Ning Mei, David Soto 3 citations
Computer vision model representations strongly predicted brain responses in ventral visual cortex and fronto-parietal regions to both conscious and unconscious perceptual contents, even in observers with null perceptual sensitivity. This pattern generalized across different participants. The findings suggest that the fronto-parietal cortex's role in conscious perception is unlikely to involve broadcasting information as proposed by global neuronal workspace theory, but may instead relate to generating meta-representations as proposed by higher-order theories.