Neuroscientists clarify: no, consciousness doesn't have a frame rate — cortex alternates every 60ms
juberti · x · 2026-10-19
Author Doris Tsao responds to viral coverage with four clarifications: (1) the paper does not show "consciousness has a frame rate"; (2) it found that during binocular rivalry, inferotemporal and prefrontal cortex alternate between conscious and suppressed states roughly every 60 ms; (3) consciousness depends on many brain areas — only a few nodes were recorded; (4) the recipe for conscious access remains unknown, though deep-brain signals proved rich enough to reconstruct high-dimensional faces. Juberti adds the real news is that competing percepts interleave at this rate, with no claims about steady-state perception.
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