TY - JOUR T1 - A neural representation of invisibility: when stimulus-specific neural activity negatively correlates with conscious experience JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2020.04.20.051334 SP - 2020.04.20.051334 AU - Matthew J Davidson AU - Will Mithen AU - Hinze Hogendoorn AU - Jeroen J.A. van Boxtel AU - Naotsugu Tsuchiya Y1 - 2020/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/04/21/2020.04.20.051334.abstract N2 - Although visual awareness of an object typically increases neural responses, we identify a neural response that increases prior to perceptual disappearances, and that scales with the amount of invisibility reported during perceptual filling-in. These findings challenge long-held assumptions regarding the neural correlates of consciousness and entrained visually evoked potentials, by showing that the strength of stimulus-specific neural activity can encode the conscious absence of a stimulus.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest. ER -