Automatic binding of basic sensory features requires consciousness
bioRxiv Preprint Server December 10, 2025 Zhili Han, Hao Zhu, Qian Chu et al. preprint
Conscious awareness requires establishing coherent percepts. Yet, whether consciousness is necessary for initiating the integration of basic sensory features remains unclear. Competing theories implicate distinct functional regimes of consciousness in the process of feature binding and creating conscious percepts. We used a novel multi-feature oddball paradigm with intracranial...