One of the strangest things about our experience of the world is the way that our brains shape what we are able to see without our control.
So that we can focus on the most important stimuli in the world around us, our brains are constantly prioritising or deprioritising information.
This means that some aspects of reality form part of our conscious experience, while others are tuned out without us ever noticing.
For example, even though your nose or the rim of your glasses is right in front of your face, most of the time you never actively see them.
In their pre-print paper, currently available in bioRxiv, the researchers write: 'At any moment, only some of the brain's activity reaches conscious awareness, while the rest is processed without ever being experienced.
'How this division arises is among the most basic unsolved problems in neuroscience.'
Previously, most studies have looked at how patterns of conscious experience have appeared in space within the different structures in the brain.
However, in this new study, the researchers investigated whether there were also patterns that emerged over time.
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