Exploring the role of expectations and stimulus relevance on stimulus-specific neural representations and conscious report.
Neuroscience of Consciousness 2019 Erik L Meijs, Pim Mostert, Heleen A. Slagter et al.
Subjective experience can be influenced by top-down factors, such as expectations and stimulus relevance. Recently, it has been shown that expectations can enhance the likelihood that a stimulus is consciously reported, but the neural mechanisms supporting this enhancement are still unclear. We manipulated stimulus expectations within the attentional blink (AB) paradigm using letters and...