|
The effects of short- and long-term experience on conscious perception| old_uid | 12440 |
|---|
| title | The effects of short- and long-term experience on conscious perception |
|---|
| start_date | 2013/05/15 |
|---|
| schedule | 16h |
|---|
| online | no |
|---|
| location_info | salle W |
|---|
| summary | Can we learn to become conscious? Can we learn to enhance our conscious capacities? Are there limits to this kind of learning? In my talk I will present studies demonstrating that conscious capacities can be improved as a function of short-term priors as well as stimulus-specific training (i.e., perceptual learning). Studying the consequences of those priors for conscious perception has yielded important insights. For instance, we have revealed that the neural correlate of consciousness does not seem to have a strict latency, also processing appears to be sparser and more efficient when priors are in place. As for the long term learning effects I discuss the neuronal correlates of these effects arguing that mere improvements in performance do not invariably lead to improvements in conscious perception and vice versa. In contrast, our studies show that learning to become conscious and improving performance dissociate in the brain both functionally and anatomically. |
|---|
| responsibles | Tallon-Baudry, Kouider, Andrillon |
|---|
| |
|