Adélaïde De Heering

2 papers in the library · publishing 2020-2026

Papers

Frequency-tagging as a measure of conscious face perception.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior June 1, 2026 Audrey Mazancieux, Axel Cleeremans, Adélaïde De Heering

Steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) recorded during frequency-tagging can track both objective and subjective conscious perception of faces. In 32 participants viewing image sequences at 6 Hz with faces every fifth image, presented at either 1% or 1.5% contrast, the face-related brain signal at 1.5% contrast was higher during correct gender categorisation than incorrect categorisation and increased linearly with both visibility and confidence ratings. At 1% contrast, no face perception occurred behaviourally, and no brain response to faces was detected. Attention, monitored via a fixation-cross task, related more closely to confidence than visibility. These findings indicate SSVEPs can serve as a marker of conscious perception.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2026.03.014 Full text Consciousness Faces Frequency-tagging Metacognition +1

Learning to Be Conscious.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences February 1, 2020 Axel Cleeremans, Dalila Achoui, Arnaud Beauny et al.

A novel framework called the self-organizing metarepresentational account (SOMA) proposes that consciousness is something the brain learns to do. The brain continuously and unconsciously learns to redescribe its own activity to itself, developing systems of metarepresentations that qualify target first-order representations. Experiences only occur in experiencers that have learned they possess certain first-order states and have learned to care more about some states than others. Consciousness is thus the brain's unconscious, embodied, enactive, nonconceptual theory about itself.

DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.11.011 Full text Consciousness Global workspace theory Higher-order theories Learning +2