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Visual masking is a key paradigm in the investigation of perceptual consciousness, offering insight into the mechanisms and processes underlying conscious visual perception. Masking by four dots is particularly striking, as the brief presentation of four small dots interferes with target processing despite no overlap in space, and without the need for overlap in time. Models explaining this phenomenon include object substitution, which attri ...

Not all stimuli enter a state we refer to as a conscious percept. This transition from early sensory processing to a subjective experience, referred to as the gate to consciousness, has been extensively debated in the recent 20 years. However, the debate struggled with the role of attention as a gatekeeper. Both, attention and consciousness are not well defined at a more formal and precise level, which makes individual conclusions heavily de ...

Our perceptual experience is rich and complex. Yet typical cognitive psychology paradigms reduce it to a few pre-defined discrete categories, such as perceived/not perceived or a value on a Likert scale. In our recent work we challenged this simplified approach by investigating subjective visual experience in its complexity. Using binocular rivalry as an example paradigm widely used in consciousness research, we asked participants about thei ...

Die Welt ist gerade voller Disruptionserzählungen und merkwürdigerweise ist diejenige von der Disruption durch Künstliche Intelligenz die lauteste. In meinem Vortrag werde ich die Frage stellen, was Künstliche Intelligenz für das Studium und Lernen von Psychologie bedeutet. Ich versuche dabei zu zeigen, dass es nicht nur (und vielleicht sogar weniger) darum geht, empirisch zu erforschen, welchen Nutzen und welchen Schaden KI hier haben kann, ...