Is auditory awareness graded or dichotomous: Electrophysiological correlates of consciousness at different depths of stimulus processing.
Consciousness and Cognition June 19, 2024 Dmitri Filimonov, Sampo Tanskanen, Antti Revonsuo et al.
The level-of-processing (LoP) hypothesis postulates that transition from unaware to aware visual stimuli is either graded or dichotomous depending on the depth of stimulus processing. Humans can be progressively aware of the low-level features, such as colors or shapes, while the high-level features, such as semantic category, enter consciousness in an all-or none fashion. Unlike in vision,...