Sensory perception in autism

CE Robertson, S Baron-Cohen - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition, and little is known about its
neurobiology. Much of autism research has focused on the social, communication and …

No-report paradigms: extracting the true neural correlates of consciousness

N Tsuchiya, M Wilke, S Frässle, VAF Lamme - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015 - cell.com
The goal of consciousness research is to reveal the neural basis of phenomenal experience.
To study phenomenology, experimenters seem obliged to ask reports from the subjects to …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced GABAergic action in the autistic brain

CE Robertson, EM Ratai, N Kanwisher - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
An imbalance between excitatory/inhibitory neurotransmission has been posited as a central
characteristic of the neurobiology of autism [1], inspired in part by the striking prevalence of …

Binocular rivalry: frontal activity relates to introspection and action but not to perception

S Frässle, J Sommer, A Jansen, M Naber… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
When two dissimilar stimuli are presented to the eyes, perception alternates between
multiple interpretations, a phenomenon dubbed binocular rivalry. Numerous recent imaging …

High‐dose Vitamin B6 supplementation reduces anxiety and strengthens visual surround suppression

DT Field, RO Cracknell, JR Eastwood… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective Vitamins B6 and B12 are involved in metabolic processes that decrease
neural excitation and increase inhibition. This double‐blind study investigated the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term monocular deprivation alters GABA in the adult human visual cortex

C Lunghi, UE Emir, MC Morrone, H Bridge - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
Neuroplasticity is a fundamental property of the nervous system that is maximal early in life,
within the critical period [1–3]. Resting GABAergic inhibition is necessary to trigger ocular …

[HTML][HTML] The 'laws' of binocular rivalry: 50 years of Levelt's propositions

JW Brascamp, PC Klink, WJM Levelt - Vision research, 2015 - Elsevier
It has been fifty years since Levelt's monograph On Binocular Rivalry (1965) was published,
but its four propositions that describe the relation between stimulus strength and the …

Multistable perception and the role of the frontoparietal cortex in perceptual inference

J Brascamp, P Sterzer, R Blake… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
A given pattern of optical stimulation can arise from countless possible real-world sources,
creating a dilemma for vision: What in the world actually gives rise to the current pattern …

Challenges for theories of consciousness: seeing or knowing, the missing ingredient and how to deal with panpsychism

VAF Lamme - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Significant progress has been made in the study of consciousness. Promising theories have
been developed and a wealth of experimental data has been generated, both guiding us …

[HTML][HTML] What visual illusions teach us about schizophrenia

CE Notredame, D Pins, S Deneve… - Frontiers in integrative …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Illusion, namely a mismatch between the objective and perceived properties of an object
present in the environment, is a common feature of visual perception, both in normal and …