Visual Masking: Studying Perception, Attention, and Consciousness

Visual masking is a technique used in cognitive research to understand pre-conscious processes (e.g., priming), consciousness, visual limits, and perception issues associated with psychopathology. This work is a short format review of research using visual masking: how it's been used, and what these experiments have discovered. It's a strategic fit to our other cognitive psychology titles. The aims of this work are: helping the interested reader to get succinct information about the widely dispersed masking studies and to point out some new trends in masking researchadd the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as a new method to the traditional psychophysical masking methods and present a review of this new trendcomment on the methodological pitfalls hidden in the practice of masking thus helping to improve the quality of future research where masking is used as a toolinform readers about recent developments in theoretical attempts to understand masking INDICE: Preface Introduction The Concept of Masking, Varieties of Masking, and Main Theories of Masking Learning and individual Differences in Masking Criterion Contents and Subjective Contents in Masking Masking and Attention: Pre- and Posttarget Effects Masking and Attention: OSM Masking and NCC Masked Priming and Unconscious Processing How Masking Depends on the Visual characteristics of the Target and Mask Stimuli Uncovering the Microgenetic Mechanisms and Stages of Visual Processing by Masking Novel Approaches in Masking Research Masking by TMS Modeling and Theoretical Accounts of Masking Psychopharmacological and Genetic Factors in Masking Applied Aspects of Masking Research: Medicine and Technology Generalizations and Conclusions Acknowledgements References

• ISBN: 978-0-12-800250-6
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 116
• Fecha Publicación: 22/11/2013
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés