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How do we represent the external world? “Nearly completely” according to some theories and “fragmented” according to others. The results from our new paradigm went against both views in certain aspects. Confused? 1/5 https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bZyL3lcz3t8F2
According to fragmented views, participants can reconstruct what they saw in an experiment if they see the image a second time during their question. We therefore showed them images half the time and words the other half. 2/5
By applying the theories supporting the fragmented views of representation we would expect participants to perform poorer looking at words rather than images, but we found no difference. 3/5
So maybe people see all the objects “nearly completely” as some theories propose? Perhaps not, because we found that, surprisingly, some positions systematically gave higher accuracy (and clearer experience) than others. 4/5
In our paper we end up asking more questions than we answered. Research is tricky and consciousness research is no exception. That is why we need to compare theories in empirical settings in order to achieve theoretical clarity in the long run
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