Visual masking : time slices through conscious and unconscious vision
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Visual masking : time slices through conscious and unconscious vision
(Oxford psychology series, 41)
Oxford University Press, c2006
2nd ed
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-361) and index
Previous ed.: 1984
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Our visual system can process information at both conscious and unconscious levels. Understanding the factors that control whether a stimulus reaches our awareness, and the fate of those stimuli that remain at an unconscious level, are the major challenges of brain science in the new millennium. Since its publication in 1984, Visual Masking has established itself as a classic text in the field of cognitive psychology. In the years since, there have been
considerable advances in the cognitive neurosciences, and a growth of interest in the topic of consciousness, and the time is ripe for a new edition of this text.
Where most current approaches to the study of visual consciousness adopt a 'steady-state' view, the approach presented in this book explores its dynamic properties. This new edition uses the technique of visual masking to explore temporal aspects of conscious and unconscious processes down to a resolution in the millisecond range. The 'time slices' through conscious and unconscious vision revealed by the visual masking technique can shed light on both normal and abnormal operations in the
brain. The main focus of this book is on the microgenesis of visual form and pattern perception - microgenesis referring to the processes occurring in the visual system from the time of stimulus presentation on the retinae to the time, a few hundred milliseconds later, of its registration at conscious or
unconscious perceptual and behavioural levels. The book takes a highly integrative approach by presenting microgenesis within a broad context encompassing visuo-temporal phenomena, attention, and consciousness.
Table of Contents
- 1. A history of visual masking
- 2. Methods, applications, and findings in visual pattern masking
- 3. Neurobiological correlates of visual pattern masking
- 4. Models and mechanisms of visual masking: a selective review and comparison
- 5. The sustained-transient approach to visual masking: an updated model
- 6. Metacontrast and motion perception
- 7. Figural context and attention in visual masking
- 8. Unconscious processing revealed by visual masking
- 9. Visual masking in select subject populations
- 10. Epilogue
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