Topic: single-unit recordings

Having conscious experience is arguably the most important reason why it matters to us whether we are alive or dead. A powerful paradigm to identify neural correlates of consciousness is binocular rivalry, wherein a constant visual stimulus evokes a varying conscious percept. It has recently been suggested that activity modulations observed during rivalry may represent the act of report rather than the conscious percept itself. Here, we performed single-unit recordings from face patches in macaque inferotemporal (IT) cortex using a novel no-report paradigm in which the animal’s conscious perce

Since the identification of concept cells nearly two decades ago [1], the semantic invariance of single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe has been extensively investigated [2, 3]. Such investigations typically consist of an initial screening to identify semantically-tuned neurons and a subsequent follow-up experiment which uses the identified stimulus-response pairings to address a particular question. While often examined in the service of other scientific investigations, the initial screenings have rarely been the sole focus of investigation [4]. Given the challenges endemic to human