Visual Masking
：Studying Perception, Attention, and Consciousness
Publication subTitle ：Studying Perception, Attention, and Consciousness
Author： Bachmann Talis;Francis Gregory
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9780128003831
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780128002506
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780128002506
Subject： B842.2 感觉与知觉
Language： ENG
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Description
Visual masking is a technique used in cognitive research to understand pre-conscious processes (priming, for example), consciousness, visual limits, and perception issues associated with psychopathology. This book is a short format review of research using visual masking: how it has been used, and what these experiments have discovered.Topics covered include concepts, varieties, and theories of masking; masking and microgenetic mechanisms and stagesof visual processing; psychopharmacological and genetic factors in masking, and more.
- Provides succinct information about the widely dispersed masking studies and points out some new trends in masking research
- Reviews transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as an alternative to the traditional psychophysical masking methods
- Comments on the methodological pitfalls hidden in the practice of masking, helping to improve the quality of future research where masking is used as a tool
- Informs readers about recent developments in theoretical attempts to understand masking