Timing of the brain events underlying access to consciousness during the attentional blink Claire Sergent, Sylvain Baillet, & Stanislas Dehaene.

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Timing of the brain events underlying access to consciousness during the attentional blink Claire Sergent, Sylvain Baillet, & Stanislas Dehaene

2 The attentional blink Normally, Task2 requires some for of identification, but the present study uses a visibility rating. However, this method has been validated in Sergent & Dehaene (2004). - The 50% visibility cut-off is used for the seen/unseen contrast. - Task1 is a 2-AFC, which is fairly easy. Stimulus presentation of 43 ms makes up for it. Principal question: what is the fate of blinked stimuli? - Are blinked stimuli unconsciously perceived? --- Yes. Vogel, Luck & Shapiro (1998). P3 suppression vs N4 - Can the difference between identical blinked and perceived stimuli be observed in the event-related potentials? --- Sergent et al. compare the following conditions: T2 present, seen – T2 absent; T2 present, unseen – T2 absent; T2 seen – T2 unseen Perception of the first target (T1) impairs perception of the second (T2) if the latter follows the former within an interval of 500 ms (Raymond, Shapiro & Arnell (1992).

3 Results FCzC1 Un-subtracted waveforms from Suppl. Figure 1 ( – T2 seen; – T2 unseen; -- T2 absent). - These show the evoked potentials in each of the three conditions superimposed on each other, on a given sensor location. - Problem of overlapping ERPs can be seen clearly from the labels on the FCz plot. ‘Compare’ C1 plot with the one to the left: - Initial drift between -400 and 0 evens out. - No trace of N1 & P1 components. - Differences emerge at ~170 ms and 350 ms post-T2.

4 Global differences between seen and unseen trials emerge after 170 ms post-T2. - The supplementary video gives a global overview of events specific to T2 perception (seen – absent & unseen – absent) and of the differences between these two (seen – unseen; right map). The authors proceed to give a detailed overview of the sequence of events. Source localization is used to obtain an idea about the neural generators underlying the observed voltage maps. --- Treat those with benign neglect. The difference at 170 ms is fairly specific to one region of the voltage map. At this location, a positive modulation is present for the seen T2s, but not for the unseen ones. “P170”

5 At around 270 ms a left- posterior negativity shows up. The authors refer to this as the N2 component, associated with perceptual similarity but also control processes (inhibition). The authors do not emphasize a left temporal positivity that also looks to be unique to seen T2s. By 300 ms post-T2 a posterior negativity, labeled the N3, follows the N2. Note how the difference is quite sharp; the effect of visibility on the N3 can be described as ‘all-or-nothing’.

6 Interestingly, a modulation of the N4 component occurs around 350 ms. Given the results of Vogel et al. this is remarkable; semantic pro- cessing of T2 should be fairly intact. The change between seen and unseen is gradual. Around 430 ms the P3 waves show a large divergence, as expected. The P3 is associated with target-related processing, and memory consolidation in particular. The P3a (the anterior first part of the late P3 complex) basically appears only when T2 is well perceived, which was also true for the N3.

7 At 580 ms, the P3b (posterior) is strongly present for seen T2s, and completely absent for unseen ones. Are there problems with the comparisons made here? - One might quibble that the number of observations in seen and unseen conditions was not equal. In ERP studies, this can be a major confound as variability of the average waveforms is strongly affected by it and may lead to the detection of spurious components. --- The riposte is that early attentional components match perfectly (baseline level is further proof), which makes it highly unlikely that an inequality in variance could account for the results. The authors continue to look at T1-related activity and posit that T1-evoked potentials interfere with T2 components. This seemed somewhat post-hoc and without a strong contribution to the understanding of the blink and the neural processes leading up to it. - I do not believe the blink arises because ‘the T1 P3b hampers the T2 N2’. - In functional terms, the consolidation of T1 is thought to pose a bottleneck for the same process for T2. This is already well known and somewhat beside the main point of this present paper.

8 Conclusions What do these ERPs tell us? Conscious report involves large-scale ‘late’ brain activity. In tasks like this, conscious report cannot be due to activation in ‘early’ stimulus-specific areas. The authors replicated (and strengthened) earlier indications that unseen events can still evoke high-level processing (N4), although N4 amplitude was suppressed somewhat. Support for classic two-stage models of the AB was obtained. Components associated with stage-2 processing diverge after less than 300 ms, which strongly suggests a relation to the observed behavioral effect (i.e., a failure to perform Task2). Detailed sequence of events shows how P1 & N1 are preserved, N2 and N4 are linearly modulated (reduced), and N3, P3a, & P3b eliminated for unseen T2s; providing a starting point for further functional research tapping into these components.