- Title
- Pre-stimulus alpha predicts inattentional blindness
- Creator
- Hutchinson, Brendan T.; Pammer, Kristen; Jack, Bradley
- Relation
- Consciousness and Cognition Vol. 87, Issue January 2021, no. 103034
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.103034
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Pre- and post-stimulus oscillatory activity between 8 and 12 hertz, referred to as the alpha-band, correlates with conscious visual awareness of stimuli across a variety of psychophysical tasks. Within an EEG-adapted inattentional blindness task, the current study sought to examine whether this relationship holds for conscious awareness of stimuli under conditions of inattentional blindness. Noticing rates of the task-irrelevant unexpected stimulus were correlated with a significant decrease in alpha power over bilateral parietal-occipital areas during the pre-stimulus interval, and a significant decrease in alpha power over parietal-occipital regions in the right hemisphere during the post-stimulus interval. Findings are taken to imply alpha-band neural activity represents a valid correlate of consciousness that is not confounded by task relevancy or the need for report.
- Subject
- inattentional blindness; alpha; attention; consciousness; no-report; perception; p300; visual awareness negativity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1434775
- Identifier
- uon:39501
- Identifier
- ISSN:1053-8100
- Language
- eng
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