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Balancing awareness: Vestibular signals modulate visual consciousness in the absence of awareness

Salomon, Roy  
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Kaliuzhna, Manila
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Herbelin, Bruno  
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2015
Consciousness And Cognition

The processing of visual and vestibular information is crucial for perceiving self-motion. Visual cues, such as optic flow, have been shown to induce and alter vestibular percepts, yet the role of vestibular information in shaping visual awareness remains unclear. Here we investigated if vestibular signals influence the access to awareness of invisible visual signals. Using natural vestibular stimulation (passive yaw rotations) on a vestibular self-motion platform, and optic flow masked through continuous flash suppression (CFS) we tested if congruent visual-vestibular information would break interocular suppression more rapidly than incongruent information. We found that when the unseen optic flow was congruent with the vestibular signals perceptual suppression as quantified with the CFS paradigm was broken more rapidly than when it was incongruent. We argue that vestibular signals impact the formation of visual awareness through enhanced access to awareness for congruent multisensory stimulation. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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DOI
10.1016/j.concog.2015.07.009
Web of Science ID

WOS:000360516100027

Author(s)
Salomon, Roy  
Kaliuzhna, Manila
Herbelin, Bruno  
Blanke, Olaf  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science

Published in
Consciousness And Cognition
Volume

36

Start page

289

End page

297

Subjects

Consciousness

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Vestibular stimulation

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Body consciousness

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Continuous flash suppression

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Multisensory integration

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Visual awareness

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REVIEWED

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September 28, 2015
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