Early correlates of visual awareness are affected by self-related information
Neuroscience of Consciousness July 30, 2026 T. Ciorli, O. MacGregor, Martin Nilsson et al.
Abstract Self-related cues, most notably one’s own face, are highly salient and confer processing advantages at both conscious and unconscious levels. Whether such self-related information and stimulus salience modulate the earliest electroencephalography (EEG) correlate of visual awareness, the visual awareness negativity (VAN), remains unknown. In this study, we examined whether self-related...