Is consciousness based in prefrontal circuits involved in cognitive processes like thought, reasoning, and memory or is it based in sensory areas in the back of the neocortex? The no-report paradigm has been crucial to this debate because it aims to separate the neural basis of the cognitive processes underlying post-perceptual decision and report from the neural basis of conscious perception itself. However, the no-report paradigm is problematic because, even in the absence of report, subjects might engage in post-perceptual cognitive processing. Therefore, to isolate the neural basis of consciousness, a no-cognition paradigm is needed. Here, I describe a no-cognition approach to binocular rivalry and outline how this approach can help to resolve debates about the neural basis of consciousness.

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无报告范式有什么问题以及如何解决它

意识是基于前额叶回路，涉及思维、推理和记忆等认知过程，还是基于新皮层后部的感觉区域？无报告范式对这场辩论至关重要，因为它旨在将后知觉决策和报告背后的认知过程的神经基础与有意识知觉本身的神经基础分开。然而，无报告范式是有问题的，因为即使在没有报告的情况下，受试者也可能进行后感知认知处理。因此，为了隔离意识的神经基础，需要一个无认知范式。在这里，我描述了一种双目竞争的无认知方法，并概述了这种方法如何帮助解决关于意识神经基础的争论。