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Visual awareness judgments are sensitive to the outcome of performance monitoring

bioRxiv, ISSN: 2692-8205
2019
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Article Description

Can previous mistakes influence our visual awareness? In this study we tested the hypothesis that perceptual awareness judgments are sensitive to the results of performance monitoring, and specifically to internal or external accuracy feedback about previous behaviour. We used perceptual discrimination task in which participants reported their stimulus awareness. We created two conditions: No-feedback and Feedback (discrimination accuracy feedback at the end of each trial). The results showed that visual awareness judgments are related to the accuracy of current and previous response. Participants reported lower stimulus awareness for incorrectly versus correctly discriminated stimuli in both conditions, but also lower awareness level in correct trials preceded by trials in which discrimination was incorrect, compared to trials preceded by correct discrimination. This difference was significantly stronger in Feedback condition. Moreover, in Feedback condition we observed “post-error slowing” for both discrimination response and PAS rating. We discuss the relation between the effects of performance monitoring and visual awareness and interpret the results in the context of current theories of consciousness.

Bibliographic Details

Marta Siedlecka; Michał Wereszczyński; Michał Wierzchoń; Borysław Paulewicz

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Immunology and Microbiology; Neuroscience; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

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