Competition for consciousness among visual events: the psychophysics of reentrant visual processes

• Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. General Vol. 129; no. 4; p. 481
• Main Authors: Di Lollo, V, Enns, J T, Rensink, R A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.2000
• Subjects: Adult; Consciousness; Female; Humans; Male; Mental Processes; Models, Psychological; Neurons; Perceptual Masking - physiology; Visual Perception

Advances in neuroscience implicate reentrant signaling as the predominant form of communication between brain areas. This principle was used in a series of masking experiments that defy explanation by feed-forward theories. The masking occurs when a brief display of target plus mask is continued wit...