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LOCATION:Andere\,   
SUMMARY:Wutz: Dr. Andreas Wutz: The brain-body dynamics underlying consciou
 s perception across the senses
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andreas Wutz\, PhD\, Dipl.-Psych.\nInstitute of Speake
 r: Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience Universi
 ty of Salzburg Salzburg\, Austria\nTopics:\nPsychologie\n Location:\n  Nam
 e: Andere (BZW/ASG14)\n  Street:  \n  City:  \n  Phone: \n  Fax: \nDescrip
 tion: <p>Is our conscious perception of seeing a flash\, hearing a sound o
 r feeling a touch associated with one common core brain activity pattern o
 r a specific brain-body interactive state? In this talk\, I present novel 
 magneto-encephalography (MEG)\, cardiac and respiratory data that investig
 ate such supra-sensory neural correlates of conscious perception and its r
 elationships to ongoing dynamics in the body. On each trial\, different vi
 sual\, auditory or tactile stimuli were shown at individual perceptual thr
 esholds\, such that about half of the stimuli were consciously detected\, 
 while the other half were missed. Four different stimuli per sense were us
 ed (i.e. different Gabor patches\, sound-frequencies\, stimulated fingers)
 \, in order to subsequently leverage representational similarity analysis 
 (RSA) for differentiating sensory-specific from supra-sensory processes\, 
 which are similar across the sensory modalities. The RSA was capable of di
 stinguishing sensory-related from supra-sensory brain activity patterns. W
 hereas sensory-specific processes were observed early after stimulus onset
  (&lt\;0.5 s) in the respective sensory cortices\, supra-sensory conscious
  processes occurred later (&gt\;0.5 s) in sensory association areas. These
  findings will be further confirmed by combining MEG and magnetic resonanc
 e imaging (MRI) data by means of RSA\, in order to establish a comprehensi
 ve spatial-temporal picture of supra-sensory conscious perception in the b
 rain. Moreover before stimulus onset\, neural activity bursts in the alpha
 -frequency band (8-13 HZ) were predictive of subsequent conscious percepti
 on across the senses. The precise timing of these neural activity bursts w
 as influenced by the participants’ ongoing cardiac and respiratory cycle
 s. Overall\, our work aims for an interactive\, multi-stage model for cons
 cious multisensory experiences\, involving pre-stimulus alpha oscillations
 \, sensory-specific processing upon stimulus onset and then later supra-se
 nsory conscious perception. This temporal processing cascade in the brain 
 may be further modulated by ongoing state changes in the body\, in order t
 o serve the optimally timed integration of conscious experiences with the 
 perceiver.</p> <p>Acknowledgements: This research was supported by project
  funding from the FWF - the Austrian Science Fund. Grant agreement number:
  P36214</p>
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