The visual (un)conscious and its (dis)contents : a microtemporal approach /

Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. For example, when a pedestrian steps onto a street and then suddenly steps back, to avoid being hit by an oncoming car, the pedestrian's visual system has been able to detect the car very rapidly. Since the registration of t...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Breitmeyer, Bruno G.
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Ausgabe:
The Visual (un)conscious and Its (dis)contents : a microtemporal approach.
Zusammenfassung:
Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. For example, when a pedestrian steps onto a street and then suddenly steps back, to avoid being hit by an oncoming car, the pedestrian's visual system has been able to detect the car very rapidly. Since the registration of the approaching car in conscious vision could take a few hundreds of milliseconds - possibly too long to avoid being struck by it, the rapid injury-avoiding action has relied on the oncomingcar being detected at unconscious levels in the visual system. So how, and at what level in the visual system is a s
Umfang:
1 online resource (251 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
0-19-102079-6
0-19-179420-1
0-19-102078-8
Schlagworte:
Visual perception > Physiological aspects.
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