Seeing feels immediate; we open our eyes and the world seems to appear as a continuous stream. But some visual illusions show that events occurring later can change how we perceive what happened earlier, suggesting that the brain may collect and combine information for a short time before producing the experience that reaches awareness.

EPFL researchers have identified two successive patterns of brain activity that may distinguish unconscious visual processing from the formation of a unified percept.

Une équipe de l’EPFL a identifié deux schémas successifs d’activité cérébrale qui pourraient permettre de distinguer le traitement visuel inconscient de la formation d’une…