About Exact Temporal Precision and Slow Information Integration

It is often believed that the integration of information over time is similar at the unconscious and conscious levels. Here we will present four different studies suggesting that the time resolution of unconscious information processing is much better than previously believed, but also that information is not integrated over such short intervals like it is at larger times. Even though information is unconsciously processed in an almost continuous fashion, it is its time consuming integration that leads to a conscious and meaningful percept. We show how neuronal correlates, like e.g., the phase of neuronal oscillations, are associated with this transformation.