BINOCULAR RIVALRY, PERCEPTUAL FILLING-IN AND THEIR INTERACTIONS: A Mechanistic Approach to Understanding the Neural Basis of Perception - Couverture souple

Meng, Ming

 
9783639146479: BINOCULAR RIVALRY, PERCEPTUAL FILLING-IN AND THEIR INTERACTIONS: A Mechanistic Approach to Understanding the Neural Basis of Perception
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639146476 ISBN 13 : 9783639146479
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Visual perception relies on both selective and constructive perceptual processes. For example, binocular rivalry leads to the selective perception of one of two competing monocular stimuli, whereas visual phantom formation leads to perceptual filling-in of a large gap between two collinearly aligned gratings. This book explores the role of perceptual and attentional mechanisms in binocular rivalry and perceptual filling-in, and investigates the neural interactions between rivalry and filling-in to gain new insights into the nature of these perceptual phenomena. These studies provide compelling new evidence suggesting that the neural mechanisms underlying selective perception and constructive perception both operate at early stages of visual processing, and that dynamic interactions can take place between these mechanisms at these same early sites. Moreover, the mechanistic approach, which this book takes to study visual awareness, is more promising to help us understand how consciousness arises as a consequence of brain activity than merely searching for the neural correlates of consciousness.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Visual perception relies on both selective and constructive perceptual processes. For example, binocular rivalry leads to the selective perception of one of two competing monocular stimuli, whereas visual phantom formation leads to perceptual filling-in of a large gap between two collinearly aligned gratings. This book explores the role of perceptual and attentional mechanisms in binocular rivalry and perceptual filling-in, and investigates the neural interactions between rivalry and filling-in to gain new insights into the nature of these perceptual phenomena. These studies provide compelling new evidence suggesting that the neural mechanisms underlying selective perception and constructive perception both operate at early stages of visual processing, and that dynamic interactions can take place between these mechanisms at these same early sites. Moreover, the mechanistic approach, which this book takes to study visual awareness, is more promising to help us understand how consciousness arises as a consequence of brain activity than merely searching for the neural correlates of consciousness.

Biographie de l'auteur

Originally from China, Ming Meng received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University. His research interests focus on how the brain extracts order from, and imposes order upon, complex visual information. He is presently a Post-doc Research Associate studying Brain & Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639146476
ISBN 13 
9783639146479
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
156
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Personne responsable
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