Something’s off.An unreviewed preprint described in a report used competing face images to study visual processing in two macaques. Although one face was expected to dominate conscious perception, recordings from face-processing regions reportedly alternated between neural patterns linked to the dominant face and the face suppressed from awareness about 15 times per second.
The odd part is that the suppressed image was still reaching the eye, yet was not expected to be consciously seen. The report says the researchers speculate that rapid alternation could let the brain consider alternative visual information without changing current behavior. The work does not explain how the brain decides what reaches awareness, and the macaques could not report what they perceived; human experiments were used to establish how the image setup worked.
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