Psychoanatomy of human vision(Possible contributions of current experimental psychology,Symposium 2 at the 23rd Annual Meeting)

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  • BLAKE Randolph
    Department of Psychology & Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University
  • WATANABE Katsumi
    Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology:Japan Science and Technology Agency

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  • 視覚の「心理解剖学」(実験心理学の今日的意義,第23回大会 シンポジウム2)
  • 視覚の「心理解剖学」
  • シカク ノ シンリ カイボウガク

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Abstract

Visual perception is the culmination of neural events transpiring within a distributed network within the brain. The network, while clearly not serial in nature, has a hierarchical structure implying the analysis of different aspects of the visual scene at different stages of processing. In recent years brain imaging techniques have become very popular as a means for identifying functional stages of processing within this hierarchy. We should not lose sight of the fact, however, that psychophysical techniques are also available for identifying sequences of processing-applied in this fashion, these techniques embody what is termed psychoanatomy. In this talk, I will summarize a couple of these techniques, along with some results from their application. I hope to show that these psychoanatomical techniques, in concert with brain imaging, offer the best hope of unraveling the complexities of the neural architecture supporting visual perception.

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