The relationship between integration and awareness is central to contemporary theories and research on consciousness. Here, we investigated whether and how information integration over time, by incorporating the underlying regularities, contributes to our awareness of the dynamic world. Using binocular rivalry, we demonstrated that structured visual streams, constituted by shape, motion, or idiom sequences containing perceptual- or semantic-level regularities, predominated over their nonstructured but otherwise matched counterparts in the competition for visual awareness. Despite the apparent resemblance, a substantial dissociation of the observed rivalry advantages emerged between perceptual- and semantic-level regularities. These effects stem from nonconscious and conscious temporal integration processes, respectively, with the former but not the latter being vulnerable to perturbations in the spatiotemporal integration window. These findings corroborate the essential role of structure-guided information integration in visual awareness and highlight a multi-level mechanism where temporal integration by perceptually and semantically defined regularities fosters the emergence of continuous conscious experience.

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多层次规律性的时间整合促进了动态意识体验的出现

整合与意识之间的关系是当代意识理论和研究的核心。在这里，我们研究了随着时间的推移，通过整合潜在的规律，信息整合是否以及如何有助于我们对动态世界的认识。通过双眼竞争，我们证明了由形状、运动或包含感知或语义层面规律的习语序列构成的结构化视觉流在视觉意识的竞争中优于非结构化但在其他方面匹配的对应物。尽管存在明显的相似之处，但观察到的竞争优势在感知层面和语义层面的规律之间出现了实质性的分离。这些效应分别源于无意识和有意识的时间整合过程，前者而不是后者容易受到时空整合窗口的扰动。这些发现证实了结构引导的信息整合在视觉意识中的重要作用，并强调了一种多层次的机制，其中通过感知和语义定义的规律进行时间整合促进了连续意识体验的出现。