Perceptual Representations and the Vividness of Stimulus-Triggered and Stimulus-Independent Experiences.

Perspectives on Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science
Peter FazekasMorten Overgaard

Abstract

In recent years, researchers from independent subfields have begun to engage with the idea that the same cortical regions that contribute to on-line perception are recruited during and underlie off-line activities such as information maintenance in working memory, mental imagery, hallucinations, dreaming, and mind wandering. Accumulating evidence suggests that in all of these cases the activity of posterior brain regions provides the contents of experiences. This article is intended to move one step further by exploring specific links between the vividness of experiences, which is a characteristic feature of consciousness regardless of its actual content, and certain properties of the content-specific neural-activity patterns. Investigating the mechanisms that underlie mental imagery and its relation to working memory and the processes responsible for mind wandering and its similarities to dreaming form two clusters of research that are in the forefront of the recent scientific study of mental phenomena, yet communication between these two clusters has been surprisingly sparse. Here our aim is to foster such information exchange by articulating a hypothesis about the fine-grained phenomenological structure determining subjectiv...Continue Reading

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Dec 15, 2020·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Peter FazekasJoel Pearson
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