Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
Surprisingly, RIFT (aka excitability) increased! We think that, instead, neuronal *inhibition* decreased. This means visual input may actually remain strong, but circuit-level E/I balance is impaired. Interestingly: involuntary microsaccades delay filling-in by restoring this balance. [4/6]
But once the boundaries are lost, what process determines what we consciously see next? Our data suggest that the brain infers visual uniformity–causing the colors to blend–using cortical areas related to perceptual decision-making and motor control. [5/6]
