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Visual Masking
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Visual information can be processed at pre-conscious as well as conscious levels. Understanding the factors that determine whether or not a stimulus reaches phenomenal awareness and the fate of stimulus information that remains at preconscious levels, poses major challenges to current research in visual cognition and neuroscience. First published in 1984, Visual Masking was a classic text in the field of cognitive psychology. In the years since, considerable advances that have been made in the cognitive neurosciences have been accompanied by a growing interest in the topic of consciousness. The current, 2nd edition takes into account these new findings and research interests. Incorporating much new, and deleting some old materials, this book focuses on visual masking as a technique of making ‘time slices’ on a millisecond scale through conscious and pre-conscious vision. The result is a detailed description of the temporal dynamics that comprise the microgenesis of visual object perception from the time a stimulus is presented on the retinae to the time, several hundreds of milliseconds later, of its registration at pre-conscious, behavioural, and at conscious, perceptual levels. The book takes a highly integrative approach, relating visual masking within a wide compass, not only to the study of conscious perception, but also to related spatio-temporal phenomena of vision such as motion perception, attention, and to a variety of visual deficits.
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“For example, when self-reports of the stimulus are compromised by using subliminal stimulation procedures, such as masking (63), areas of the visual cortex (including primary and secondary areas) are functionally active, but when participants are able to consciously report seeing a visual stimulus, additional cortical areas become active (47,54,(64)(65)(66)(67)(68)(69)(70)(71).”
From A higher-order theory of emotional consciousness (2017) · cites this paper as [63]
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“Previous physiological studies have shown that during masked stimulus presentations, the feedforward bottom-up components of cortical cells' response (i.e., the early response from response onset for a period lasting about the stimulus mask) remains essentially unaltered whereas the later response is interrupted (see SI Text ) (see also refs. 42, 43, and 44 for recent reviews).”
From A feedforward architecture accounts for rapid categorization (2007) · cites this paper as [44]
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Serre, T., Oliva, A., & Poggio, T. (2007) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0700622104 · Cited by 918
Brain Dynamics Underlying the Nonlinear Threshold for Access to Consciousness
Del Cul, A., Baillet, S., & Dehaene, S. (2007) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050260 · Cited by 753
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LeDoux, J. E., & Brown, R. (2017) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1619316114 · Cited by 690
Causal role of prefrontal cortex in the threshold for access to consciousness
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Hard criteria for empirical theories of consciousness
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Metadata
- Authors
- Breitmeyer, B., & Ogmen, H.
- ORCID
- Breitmeyer, Bruno
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2006-04-20
- OpenAlex
- W4247793179
- Cited by
- 313
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.19
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Keywords
- visual masking, conscious perception, phenomenal awareness, visual object perception, motion perception, visual attention, visual deficits
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