Placing meta-stable states of consciousness within the predictive coding hierarchy: The deceleration of the accelerated prediction error.
Consciousness and Cognition July 10, 2018 Amirali Shirazibeheshti, J. Cooke, S. Chennu et al.
A multi-level oddball task reveals that local and global prediction-error responses interact, challenging the view that the global effect reflects a distinct processing mode beyond predictive coding. Sedation modulates this interaction, suggesting conscious awareness may not be confined solely to the global processing level.