The Constitution of Visual Consciousness

Name: The Constitution of Visual Consciousness | Lessons from Binocular Rivalry
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Lessons from Binocular Rivalry

Steven M. Miller(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 28. August 2013

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The Constitution of Visual Consciousness
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Visual consciousness and binocular rivalry: An introduction
Constituents, organization and processes of the human brain
Introduction
Phylogeny
Ontogeny
Cellular constituents
Organization of neural circuitry
Structural and functional organization
Cerebral cortex
Molecular constituents
Conclusions
References
Overview of visual system structure and function
1. Introduction
2. From retina to cortex
2.1 Parallel processing in the retina
2.2 Transforming the retinal signal
3. Parallel and multiplexed processing within early visual cortex
3.1 Functional clustering in V1
3.2 Receptive field properties in V1
3.3 Anatomy of pathways through V1 and V2
4. Beyond striate cortex
4.1 Two streams of cortical visual processing
4.2 The dorsal stream
4.3 The ventral stream
4.4 Cortical confluences
4.5 Response timing
5. Active vision
5.1 Why move the eyes?
5.2 Selection and control of saccades
5.3 Implications of saccadic eye movements for studies of perception
5.4 Attention and expectations
6. Conclusions
References
Early views on binocular rivalry
Introduction
Binocular vision in antiquity
Binocular color rivalry: From color mixture to perceptual grouping
Binocular contour rivalry: Conflicting views and philosophical traditions
Alternations in attention and consciousness
Summary and conclusions
References
Psychophysics of binocular rivalry
What is psychophysics?
Psychophysics of binocular rivalry
Two classes of binocular rivalry psychophysics
Class I. Phenomenology of binocular rivalry
Class II. Binocular rivalry as a tool for probing unconscious processing
Parallels with other ambiguous stimuli
Concluding remarks: What have we learnt about consciousness?
References
Investigating the structure and function of the brain: A methodological overview
Introduction
Measuring the electrophysiology of the brain
EEG: From brain to scalp
Magnetoencephalography
Source localization
Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Magnetic resonance imaging
Structural imaging
Functional imaging
Future focus points
References
The neuron doctrine of binocular rivalry
Introduction to single-cell recording
Relating single-cell responses to perception
Single-cell investigations of binocular rivalry
Effects of binocular rivalry on neuronal firing patterns
Correlation with percept vs. correlation with switch mechanism
Conclusions
References
Functional neuroimaging of binocular rivalry
Introduction
fMRI as a tool to study binocular rivalry
Neural processing of perceptually suppressed information during binocular rivalry
The constructive nature of visual perception: Neural mechanisms underlying perceptual changes
Conclusions
References
Binocular rivalry, brain stimulation and bipolar disorder
Rivalry mechanisms: A tale of two levels
The interhemispheric switch (IHS) model of rivalry
CVS technique overview
Review of brain stimulation studies of rivalry
CVS and predominance modulation
Single-pulse TMS and perceptual disruption
Repetitive TMS and rate modulation
Status of the IHS model
Clinical, genetic and molecular aspects of rivalry
Concluding remarks
References
High-level modulations of binocular rivalry
Introduction
Effects of stimulus configuration
Effects of visual context
Spatial context
Temporal context
Effects of observer state
Volition and attention
Pharmacology and genetics
Conclusions
References
Binocular rivalry: Cooperation, competition, and decisions
Neural modeling, binocular rivalry and consciousness
Models of binocular rivalry
Extending the basic rivalry model
Generalized rivalry and deliberative processes
Generalized rivalry and conscious decisions
Discussion
References
The future of binocular rivalry research: Reaching through a window on consciousness
1. Introduction
1.1 A window on consciousness
1.2 A brief history of binocular rivalry research
2. The future of binocular rivalry research
2.1 A challenge on three fronts
2.2 Observing streams of consciousness
2.3 Mechanisms of binocular rivalry: How the window works
2.4 Reaching through a window on consciousness
3. Concluding remarks
References
Index

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