Illusions of integration are subjectively impenetrable: Phenomenological experience of Lag 1 percepts during dual-target RSVP

We investigated the relationship between different kinds of target reports in a rapid serial visual presentation task, and their associated perceptual experience. Participants reported the identity of two targets embedded in a stream of stimuli and their associated subjective visibility. In our task, target stimuli could be combined together to form more complex ones, thus allowing participants to report temporally integrated percepts. We found that integrated percepts were associated with high subjective visibility scores, whereas reports in which the order of targets was reversed led to a poorer perceptual experience. We also found a reciprocal relationship between the chance of the second target not being reported correctly and the perceptual experience associated with the first one. Principally, our results indicate that integrated percepts are experienced as a unique, clear perceptual event, whereas order reversals are experienced as confused, similar to cases in which an entirely wrong response was given.

Publication type: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Simione, Luca
Akyürek, Elkan G.
Vastola, Valentina
Raffone, Antonino
Bowman, Howard
Publisher: 
Academic Press., San Diego, Stati Uniti d'America
Source: 
Consciousness and cognition (Print) 51 (2017): 181–192. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2017.03.004
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Simione, Luca; Akyürek, Elkan G.; Vastola, Valentina; Raffone, Antonino; Bowman, Howard/titolo:Illusions of integration are subjectively impenetrable: Phenomenological experience of Lag 1 percepts during dual-target RSVP/doi:10.
Date: 
2017
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/432333
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.03.004
info:doi:10.1016/j.concog.2017.03.004
http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?eid=2-s2.0-85017022900&origin=inward
Language: 
Eng