| Title:
Visual masking and the dynamics of human perception, cognition, and consciousness
Editors: Ulrich Ansorge, Greg Francis, Michael H. Herzog and Haluk Öğmen
Description: The 1990s, the "decade of the brain," witnessed major advances in the
study of visual perception, cognition, and consciousness. Impressive
techniques in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuropsychology,
electrophysiology, psychophysics and brain-imaging were developed to
address how the nervous system transforms and represents visual inputs.
Many of these advances have dealt with the steady-state properties of
processing. To complement this "steady-state approach," more recent
research emphasized the importance of dynamic aspects of visual
processing. Visual masking has been a paradigm of choice for more than a
century when it comes to the study of dynamic vision. A recent workshop
(http://lpsy.epfl.ch/VMworkshop/), held in Delmenhorst, Germany, brought
together an international group of researchers to present
state-of-the-art research on dynamic visual processing with a focus on
visual masking. This special issue presents peer-reviewed contributions
by the workshop participants and provides a contemporary synthesis of
how visual masking can inform the dynamics of human perception,
cognition, and consciousness.
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