Visual masking and attention have been known to control the transfer of information from
sensory memory to visual short-term memory. A natural question is whether these processes …

To efficiently use its finite resources, the visual system selects for further processing only a
subset of the rich sensory information. Visual masking and spatial attention control the …

A stimulus (mask) reduces the visibility of another stimulus (target) when they are presented
in close spatio-temporal vicinity of each other, a phenomenon called visual masking. Visual …

The types of stimuli used as targets and masks considerably change the masking functions
in a way that requires us to abandon any single mechanism of masking as the sole …

The influence of attention on perceptual awareness was examined using metacontrast
masking. Attention was manipulated with endogenous cues to assess the effects on the …

We studied the effects of selective attention on metacontrast masking with 3 different cueing
experiments. Experiments 1 and 2 compared central symbolic and peripheral spatial cues …

When participants discriminate stimuli that are masked by a following stimulus via
metacontrast masking, stable individually different masking functions have been found …

Visual backward masking is frequently used to study the temporal dynamics of visual
perception. These dynamics may include the temporal features of conscious percepts, as …

Three experiments tested how the physical format and information content of forward and
backward masks affected the extent of visual pattern masking. This involved using different …

Metacontrast masking occurs when a mask follows a target stimulus in close spatial
proximity. Target visibility varies with stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between target and …