Our visual system can process information at both conscious and unconscious levels.
Understanding the factors that control whether a stimulus reaches our awareness, and the …

Visual masking, throughout its history, has been used as an investigative tool in exploring
the temporal dynamics of visual perception, beginning with retinal processes and ending in …

This paper reviews the potential role of feedback in visual masking, for and against. Our
analysis reveals constraints for feedback mecha-nisms that limit their potential role in visual …

Understanding the extent and limits of non-conscious processing is an important step on the
road to a thorough understanding of the cognitive and cerebral correlates of conscious …

What parts of a visual stimulus produce the greatest neural signal? Previous studies have
explored this question and found that the onset of a stimulus's edge is what excites early …

In visual masking, visible targets are rendered invisible by modifying the context in which
they are presented, but not by modifying the targets themselves. Here I summarize a decade …

Visual masking is a technique used in cognitive research to understand pre-conscious
processes (priming, for example), consciousness, visual limits, and perception issues …

A brief visual target stimulus may be rendered invisible if it is immediately preceded or
followed by another stimulus. This class of illusions, known as visual masking, may allow …

Backward masking can potentially provide evidence of the time needed for visual
processing, a fundamental constraint that must be incorporated into computational models of …

Two complementary interpretations of visual masking exist, each based on an analogy with
a nonneural system. Peripheral integrative masking is said to occur when masking is energy …