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Concepts of visual consciousness and their measurement
1Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Psychology Section, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract:
Although visual consciousness can be manipulated easily (e.g., by visual masking), it is unresolved whether it can be assessed accurately with behavioral measures such as discrimination ability and self-report. Older theories of visual consciousness postulated a sensory threshold and distinguished between subjective and objective thresholds. In contrast, newer theories distinguish among three aspects: phenomenal, access, and reflexive consciousness. This review shows that discrimination ability and self-report differ in their sensitivity to these aspects. Therefore, both need to be assessed in the study of visual consciousness.
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