Early effects of previous experience on conscious perception.
Neuroscience of Consciousness 2016 Jaan Aru, Renate Rutiku, Michael Wibral et al.
Constructive theories of brain function such as predictive coding posit that prior knowledge affects our experience of the world quickly and directly. However, it is yet unknown how swiftly prior knowledge impacts the neural processes giving rise to conscious experience. Here we used an experimental paradigm where prior knowledge augmented perception and measured the timing of this effect with...