Comment on ‘Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness’

In a recent article Fahrenfort and colleagues demonstrate that auditory and monetary punishment change the criteria that participants use to rate the clarity of perception (Fahrenfort et al., 2025). This leads them to conclude that “subjective measures do not reliably measure the construct they inte...

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Published in:	eLife
Main Authors:	Kristian Sandberg, Morten Overgaard
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2025-08-01
Subjects:	consciousness signal detection theory unconscious subliminal subthreshold
Online Access:	https://elifesciences.org/articles/106963

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