A new no-report paradigm reveals that face cells encode both consciously perceived and suppressed stimuli.
Elife November 11, 2020 Janis Karan Hesse, Doris Y Tsao
A powerful paradigm to identify neural correlates of consciousness is binocular rivalry, wherein a constant visual stimulus evokes a varying conscious percept. It has recently been suggested that activity modulations observed during rivalry may represent the act of report rather than the conscious percept itself. Here, we performed single-unit recordings from face patches in macaque...