Human Brain Mapping
June 15, 2026
Adam Coates, Paul Sedlmayr, Anna Wastian et al.
The human claustrum is a small bilateral grey matter structure that is highly interconnected with cortical and subcortical regions. It has been implicated in different functions including sleep, multisensory integration, consciousness and attention, yet its exact function remains unclear. The primate claustrum is known to have distinct sensory regions, with the visual zone recently demonstrated...
Journal of Vision
January 5, 2026
Cemre Yilmaz, Kerstin Maitz, Maximilian Gerschütz et al.
Binocular rivalry occurs when two eyes are presented with two conflicting stimuli. Although the physical stimulation stays the same, the conscious percept changes over time. This property makes it a unique paradigm in both vision science and consciousness research. Two key parameters, contrast and attention, were repeatedly shown to affect binocular rivalry dynamics in a similar manner. This...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
2025
Cemre Yilmaz, Laura Pabel, Elias Kerschenbauer et al.
2 citations
Our subjective experience of the sensory information is rich and complex. Yet, typical cognitive and perception psychology paradigms reduce it to a few predefined discrete categories, like yes/no answers or the Likert scales. In the current study, we examined the complexity of subjective visual experience during binocular rivalry, a major experimental paradigm used to study conscious visual...
Trends in Neurosciences
October 1, 2024
Natalia Zaretskaya
2 citations
A recent study by Wu, Podvalny, and colleagues investigated how ongoing spontaneous brain activity interacts with sensory input and shapes conscious perception. It reports diverse effects of prestimulus activity in several key networks, revealing new roles of the prefrontal cortex and the default mode network in perception and consciousness.
bioRxiv
September 18, 2023
Adam Coates, David Linhardt, Christian Windischberger et al.
preprint
The claustrum is a thin subcortical gray matter structure located between the insula and the putamen. It has numerous bilateral connections with the cortex and is thought to play an important role in higher-level aspects of perception and cognition, with hypotheses including multisensory integration, attention and consciousness. The claustrum’s thin shape makes it difficult to investigate,...