%0 Journal Article %A Matthew J Davidson %A Will Mithen %A Hinze Hogendoorn %A Jeroen J.A. van Boxtel %A Naotsugu Tsuchiya %T A neural representation of invisibility: when stimulus-specific neural activity negatively correlates with conscious experience %D 2020 %R 10.1101/2020.04.20.051334 %J bioRxiv %P 2020.04.20.051334 %X 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. %U https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2020/04/21/2020.04.20.051334.full.pdf