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September 19, 2025Neuroscience of ConsciousnessOpen Access

Priority access to awareness? A new ‘CFS tracking’ paradigm reveals no priority for fearful faces or a face inversion effect

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DADavid AlaisLYLina YeJCJacob Coorey

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Experimental analysis reveals no priority for fearful or upright faces in visual processing, suggesting uniform suppression effects.

Key Points

  • No priority for fearful faces over neutral or happy faces was identified in suppression depth measures, indicating uniform visual processing.
  • Suppression depth results from two experiments confirmed a lack of face inversion effects, asserting that upright and inverted faces are processed equally.
  • The innovative tCFS paradigm allows for measuring both breakthrough and suppression thresholds, enhancing understanding of visual awareness.
  • Findings suggest that CFS induces strong suppression in the early visual cortex, before any specialized face processing occurs.

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Alais et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d46cd731b076d99fa692d9https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaf015
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