A central challenge in consciousness research is to dissociate perception from awareness using rigorous, bias-free methods. Traditional approaches often suffer from two key limitations: the criterion biases in reporting perceptual (un)awareness, and the criterion content fallacy, where awareness measures do not capture the specific information required to perform the perceptual task. These...
The development of robust frameworks to understand how the human brain represents conscious and unconscious perceptual contents is paramount to make progress in the neuroscience of consciousness. Recent functional MRI studies using multi-voxel pattern classification analyses showed that unconscious contents could be decoded from brain activity patterns. However, decoding does not imply a full...
A framework to pinpoint the scope of unconscious processing is critical to improve models of visual consciousness. Previous research observed brain signatures of unconscious processing in visual cortex, but these were not reliably identified. Further, whether unconscious contents are represented in high-level stages of the ventral visual stream and linked parieto-frontal areas remains unknown....