Temporal dynamics of access to consciousness in the attentional blink
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Presentation of two targets in close temporal succession often results in an impairment of conscious perception for the second stimulus. Previous studies have identified several electrophysiological correlates for this so-called 'attentional blink'. Components of the event-related potential (ERP) such as the N2 and the P3, but also oscillatory brain signals have been shown to distinguish between detected and missed stimuli, and thus, conscious perception. Here we investigate oscillatory responses that specifically relate to conscious stimulus processing together with potential ERP predictors. Our results show that successful target detection is associated with enhanced coherence in the low beta frequency range, but a decrease in alpha coherence before and during target presentation. In addition, we find an inverse relation between the P3 amplitudes associated with the first and second target. We conclude that the resources allocated to first and second target processing are directly mirrored by the P3 component and, moreover, that brain states before and during stimulus presentation, as reflected by oscillatory brain activity, strongly determine the access to consciousness. Thus, becoming aware of a stimulus seems to depend on the dynamic interaction between a number of widely distributed neural processes, rather than on the modulation of one single process or component.
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Selective attention, as measured by accuracy in an RSVP task, is closely linked to an individual's ability to update changing information over time and may also be connected to performance in P300 speller tasks.
“Selective attention, as measured by accuracy in an RSVP task, is closely linked to an individual's ability to update changing information over time and may also be connected to performance in P300 speller tasks [20], [47], [48].”
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“In Dataset IIb, our model exhibits superior performance compared to SWFP, BN3 and DCPM, achieving statistically significant results ( p 0.05).”
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- Kranczioch, C., Debener, S., Maye, A., & Engel, A. K.
- Affiliations
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE)
- Royal South Hants Hospital (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Kranczioch, Cornelia
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-09
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 3
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- 947-955
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- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
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- en
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- European Commission
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- attentional blink, conscious perception, access to consciousness, event-related potentials, P300, N2 component, beta coherence, alpha coherence, neural oscillations, target detection, temporal dynamics
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Biological Clocks, Blinking, Brain, Consciousness, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Visual, Female, Humans, Male, Photic Stimulation
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