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Zusatztext Readers in psychology! the neurosciences! as well as the humanities will find Informationen zum Autor Bruno G. Breitmeyer, Department of Psychology and Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science, University of Houston, USA Professor Bruno Breitmeyer is affiliated with the Department of Psychology and the Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science at the University of Houston. He was born and raised until the age of 10 in Hildesheim, Germany where he was schooled at the Gymnasium Josefinum. In 1957, his family emigrated to the USA. In 1968, after receiving his BA magna cum laude in mathematics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, he began his studies in experimental psychology at Stanford University, where he received his PhD with distinction in 1972. In 1972 he joined the faculty at the University of Houston. From 1973 to 1974 he was a member of Bela Julesz's vision research group at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey; and from 1976 to 1977, with support of an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, he collaborated with Lothar Spillmann at the Neurological Clinic, Freiburg University, Germany. Klappentext Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. The book explores unconscious and conscious vision, investigated using psychophysical and brain-recording methods. The book sheds new light on and advances experimental, philosophical, and scholarly research on visual consciousness. Zusammenfassung Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. The book explores unconscious and conscious vision, investigated using psychophysical and brain-recording methods. The book sheds new light on and advances experimental, philosophical, and scholarly research on visual consciousness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Introduction 2: Conceptual and Methodological Issues 3: Microtemporal Analyses of Object Perception 4: Contours and Surfaces: Why visual consciousness is "superficial" 5: Functional Hierarchy of Unconscious Object Processing 6: The Dorsal Pathway's Contribution to Perception and Top-Down Influences on Processing in the Ventral Pathway 7: Visual Consciousness of Things Past 8: Consciousness and Attention: Partners but not equals 9: Some Psycho-Philosophic Assessments 10: Epilogue: Reflections on consciousness and realism References ...
