Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness.
Elife May 28, 2025 Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort, Philippa A. Johnson, Niels A. Kloosterman et al. 10 citations
How consciousness arises from brain activity has been a topic of intense scientific research for decades. But how does one identify the neural basis of something that is intrinsically personal and subjective? A hallmark approach has been to ask human observers to judge stimuli as 'seen' (conscious) and 'unseen' (unconscious) and use post hoc sorting of neural measurements based these judgments....