Masking Disrupts Reentrant Processing in Human Visual Cortex

• Published in: Journal of cognitive neuroscience Vol. 19; no. 9; pp. 1488 - 1497
• Main Authors: Fahrenfort, J. J, Scholte, H. S, Lamme, V. A. F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.09.2007; MIT Press Journals, The
• Subjects: Adult; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain; Brain Mapping; Cognition & reasoning; Electroencephalography - methods; Electrophysiology; Evoked Potentials, Visual - physiology; Eyes & eyesight; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Male; Orientation - physiology; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Perception; Perceptual Masking - physiology; Photic Stimulation - methods; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time - physiology; Sensory perception; Time Factors; Vision; Visual Cortex - physiology; Visual Fields - physiology; Visualization; Human; Visual cortex; Visual pathway; Vision; Central nervous system; Electrophysiology; Perception; Cognition; Masking; Event evoked potential; Encephalon

In masking, a stimulus is rendered invisible through the presentation of a second stimulus shortly after the first. Over the years, authors have typically explained masking by postulating some early disruption process. In these feedforward-type explanations, the mask somehow “catches up” with the ta...