Bruno G. Breitmeyer
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198712237
- eISBN:
- 9780191794209
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198712237.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Vision
The book covers the types and stages of nonconscious and conscious visual processing that have been investigated in psychophysical and brain-recording research using methods allowing microtemporal ...
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The book covers the types and stages of nonconscious and conscious visual processing that have been investigated in psychophysical and brain-recording research using methods allowing microtemporal analysis at a resolution ranging from a few tens to a few hundreds of milliseconds. By tying these findings to well known anatomical and physiological substrates of vision, the intent is to present and discuss theoretical and empirical research on conscious and nonconscious vision that will be of relevance to scientists and scholars interested in visual cognition, visual neuroscience, and, more broadly, cognitive science, including that part of the philosophic community that is currently occupied with the problem of the mind–brain interface. The book provides an in-depth integrative review of recent and ongoing and highly active scientific and scholarly research, and it suggests several avenues for future research in these areas. It also provides a well articulated theoretical and an especially detailed empirical base that can shed new light on, and advance philosophic and scholarly discussions of, visual consciousness. The book is therefore intended to impact on a broad a range of researchers interested in visual perception/cognition, and in the visual conscious and unconscious.Less
The book covers the types and stages of nonconscious and conscious visual processing that have been investigated in psychophysical and brain-recording research using methods allowing microtemporal analysis at a resolution ranging from a few tens to a few hundreds of milliseconds. By tying these findings to well known anatomical and physiological substrates of vision, the intent is to present and discuss theoretical and empirical research on conscious and nonconscious vision that will be of relevance to scientists and scholars interested in visual cognition, visual neuroscience, and, more broadly, cognitive science, including that part of the philosophic community that is currently occupied with the problem of the mind–brain interface. The book provides an in-depth integrative review of recent and ongoing and highly active scientific and scholarly research, and it suggests several avenues for future research in these areas. It also provides a well articulated theoretical and an especially detailed empirical base that can shed new light on, and advance philosophic and scholarly discussions of, visual consciousness. The book is therefore intended to impact on a broad a range of researchers interested in visual perception/cognition, and in the visual conscious and unconscious.
