Rapid alternation of conscious and suppressed stimulus representations in the primate brain
Janis Karan Hesse, Frank F Lanfranchi, Conor McGrory, Yuelin Shi, Tatiana A. Engel, Doris Ying Tsao
With stimulus and percept fixed, macaque inferotemporal face-patch populations alternate about 15 times per second between states purely representing the conscious or suppressed face; prefrontal cortex shows qualitatively similar interleaving.
bioRxiv · Oct 16, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience✦ In-depth digest