VISUAL (UN)CONSCIOUS & (DIS)CONTENTS P by BREITMEYER

ISBN: 9780198712237

Oxford University Press | 05 August 2014

Paperback | 256 pages

Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. How, and at what level in the visual system is a stimulus processed unconsciously? The Visual (Un)Conscious and Its (Dis)Contents explores unconscious and conscious vision using psychophysical and brain‑recording methods. Through microtemporal analyses of visual processing during the milliseconds between a stimulus’s impact on the retina and its eliciting a behavioural response or a conscious percept, the book presents and discusses theoretical and empirical approaches to conscious and unconscious vision. It sheds new light on and advances experimental, philosophical, and scholarly research on visual consciousness.