Visual masking : time slices through conscious and unconscious vision
"Drawing on the 1984 book but incorporating almost entirely new material, this book uses the technique of visual masking to explore temporal aspects of conscious and unconscious processes. 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. 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 down to a resolution in the millisecond range."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2006
2nd ed
Oxford University Press, Oxford, ©2006