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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, ...

The alpha rhythm (~10 Hz) is the most prominent oscillatory activity in the human EEG and has been closely linked to fluctuations in cortical excitability. In many visual attention and memory tasks, alpha activity becomes lateralized across hemispheres -- a pattern widely interpreted as reflecting the allocation of spatial attention. Recent studies suggest, however, that the effects of ongoing alpha rhythms on perception are better captured ...

Our subjective experience of the world as visually rich and detailed appears inconsistent with phenomena like change blindness and inattentional blindness. These illustrate that, in the absence of focused attention, individuals are prone to missing changes or objects that would otherwise be noticed. These findings suggest that attention is crucial for conscious perception, raising the possibility that our experience of visual richness might ...