Despite fruitful research in experimental aesthetics, the dynamics of aesthetics, ie, the
processes involved in art perception, have received little attention. Concerning …

Dopaminergic system of the brain is believed to be strongly involved in normal and
pathological behavioral phenotypes of attention. In metacontrast masking studies attentional …

Unconscious perception, or perception without awareness, describes a situation where an
observer's behaviour is influenced by a stimulus of which they have no phenomenal …

A considerable part of information processing in the human mind is carried out at the
preconscious level. For sensing and perceiving we do not need to be in a state that will by …

The U-shaped metacontrast function may result from the superimposition of two monotonic
components which reflect the effects of mechanisms similar to the peripheral and central …

Perception of Pixelated Images covers the increasing use of these images in everyday life
as communication, socialization, and commerce increasingly rely on technology. The …

Adaptation aftereffects are the tendency to perceive an ambiguous target stimulus, which
follows an adaptor stimulus, as different from the adaptor. A duration dependence of face …

The workshop leading to this book was supported by grant R13 MH068548 from the
National Institutes of Health. We would like to thank Dr. Dennis Glanzman from the National …

AUTHOR: Tor Amund Voll Storaas. MAIN SUPERVISOR: Professor Merete Glenne Øie. CO-
SUPERVISOR: Professor Jens Egeland. BACKGROUND: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity …

The present thesis addresses whether and how some of the information conveyed by faces
affects selective attention. This is an important question as faces convey a rich source of …