Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Brief Maintenance of Seen and Unseen Sensory Information

• Published in: Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) Vol. 92; no. 5; pp. 1122 - 1134
• Main Authors: King, Jean-Rémi, Pescetelli, Niccolo, Dehaene, Stanislas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 07.12.2016; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; attention; Awareness; backward masking; Brain - physiology; decoding; Discrimination; Female; Funding; Humans; machine learning; Magnetoencephalography; Male; Memory, Short-Term - physiology; Models, Neurological; perception; Perceptual Masking - physiology; Psychological Theory; Sensors; subliminal; temporal generalization; Unconscious (Psychology); visual awareness; Visual Perception - physiology; working memory; Young Adult; temporal generalization; working memory; subliminal; attention; visual awareness; machine learning; magnetoencephalography; decoding; backward masking; perception

Recent evidence of unconscious working memory challenges the notion that only visible stimuli can be actively maintained over time. In the present study, we investigated the neural dynamics underlying the maintenance of variably visible stimuli using magnetoencephalography. Subjects had to detect an...