Anterior insular activity signals perceptual conflicts induced by temporal and spatial context.
Neuroscience of Consciousness 2025 Katrin Reichenbach, Marcus Rothkirch, Lucca Jaeckel et al.
The signals registered by our senses are inherently ambiguous. Subjective experience, by contrast, is informative: it portrays one's interpretation of the sensory environment at a time while discarding competing alternatives. This is exemplified by bistable perception, where ambiguous sensory information induces prolonged intervals of alternating unambiguous perceptual states. According to...