The Role of Visual Awareness in Perception, Spatial Attention and Visuomotor Control

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral Neuroscience".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 545

Special Issue Editors

Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy
Interests: visual perception; action; body perception; visuospatial attention; motor resonance; TMS; EEG

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Section of Physiology and Psychology, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy
Interests: cognitive neuroscience; visual awareness; conscious perception; visual processing; TMS; EEG; TMS-EEG; event-related optical signal (EROS)

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Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, 38122 Trento, Italy
Interests: visual perception; action; visuomotor control; visual consciousness; fMRI; EEG; visual psychophysics; kinematics; size perception; depth perception; multisensory integration

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Royal Military Academy, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: visuo-spatial attention; motor awareness; body awareness; brain stimulation; fMRI; EEG; multisensory integration; moral decision making
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Visual awareness refers to the processes that occur when incoming visual information becomes conscious and leads to the subjective experience of seeing. The study of these processes is at the forefront of contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Remarkably, due to the complexity of this phenomenon, there is still no agreement on its nature, its underlying neural dynamics and, more importantly, its involvement in different functions such as perception, spatial attention and visuomotor control. Is visual awareness always necessary or can these processes operate outside a person’s awareness? This Special Issue welcomes both theoretical and empirical contributions that address these questions using any relevant techniques and methods. With this issue, we aim to provide the reader with new insights into the mechanisms responsible for our conscious perceptual experience during different tasks, and how these mechanisms operate in both healthy and neurological populations.

Dr. Sonia Mele
Dr. Chiara Mazzi
Dr. Irene Sperandio
Dr. Adriana Salatino
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • visual awareness
  • visual perception
  • action
  • visuo-spatial attention
  • visuomotor integration

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