The Visual (Un)Conscious and Its (Dis)Contents a microtemporal approach
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Oxford University Press
2014
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- Preface; Contents; Plates; 1 Introduction; 2 Conceptual and methodological issues; 3 Microtemporal analyses of object perception; 4 Contours and surfaces: Why visual consciousness is "superficial"; 5 Functional hierarchy of unconscious object processing; 6 The dorsal pathway's contributions to perception and top-down influences on processing in the ventral pathway; 7 Visual consciousness of things past; 8 Consciousness and attention: Partners but not equals; 9 Some psycho-philosophic assessments; Epilogue: Reflections on consciousness and realism; References; Author index; Subject index
- Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. For example, when a pedestrian steps onto a street and then suddenly steps back, to avoid being hit by an oncoming car, the pedestrian's visual system has been able to detect the car very rapidly. Since the registration of the approaching car in conscious vision could take a few hundreds of milliseconds - possibly too long to avoid being struck by it, the rapid injury-avoiding action has relied on the oncomingcar being detected at unconscious levels in the visual system. So how, and at what level in the visual system is a s