Visual Masking: Studying Perception, Attention, and Consciousness

By Gregory Francis and Talis Bachmann

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0128002506
• ISBN13: 9780128002506
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"