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Behavioral and Electrophysiological Studies of Visual Masking

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In the attempt to understand the temporal characteristics of visual perception, the investigation of visual masking has played a rather prominent role. The literature is surprisingly extensive on this topic and so are the theories which confront us (Eriksen and Collins, 1965; Kahneman, 1968; Kolers, 1962; Raab, 1963; Sperling, 1965). Attempts to deal with the behavioral findings in physiological terms have been most pervasive in theorizing, most of which so far has been based on rather scanty physiological evidence (Alpern, 1953; Fry, 1934; Weisstein, 1968; Werner, 1935).

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Schiller, P.H. (1969). Behavioral and Electrophysiological Studies of Visual Masking. In: Leibovic, K.N. (eds) Information Processing in The Nervous System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-25549-0_8

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