Masking Disrupts Reentrant Processing in Human Visual Cortex

By Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort, Huibert Steven Scholte, Victor A. F. Lamme. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2007

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Experimental and theoretical approaches to conscious processing. (2011, background): “More frequently, at around 200–300 ms, surrounding the P2 ERP component, more negative voltages are reported over posterior cortices on visible compared to invisible trials (Del Cul et al., 2007; Fahrenfort et al., 2007; Koivisto et al., 2008, 2009; Railo and Koivisto, 2009; Sergent et al., 2005).”
The Limits of Feedforward Vision: Recurrent Processing Promotes Robust Object Recognition when Objects Are Degraded (2012, background): “The exact same effect has been reported for the figure-ground segregation tasks, which have been shown to crucially depend on recurrent processing for successful segmentation (Fahrenfort et al., 2007, 2008 ).”
Seven Challenges in Image Quality Assessment: Past, Present, and Future Research (2013, background): “concluded that “masking derives its effectiveness, at least partly, from disrupting reentrant processing, thereby interfering with the neural mechanisms of figure-ground segmentation and visual awareness itself ” [307].”
To See or Not to See: Pre-stimulus Alpha Phase Predicts Visual Awareness (2009, background): “…targets, and by masks of variable efficacy (Lau and Passingham, 2002; Haynes et al., 2005; van Aalderen-Smeets et al., 2006; Del Cul et al., 2007; Fahrenfort et al., 2007), few investigations have specifically examined the differential prestimulus electrophysiological activity that leads…”
A hidden ambiguity of the term “feedback” in its use as an explanatory mechanism for psychophysical visual phenomena (2014, background): “…“reverse hierarchy” to specify the mechanisms that underlie various visual phenomena (e.g., Di Lollo et al., 2000; Lamme and Roelfsema, 2000; Pascual-Leone and Walsh, 2001; Supèr et al., 2001; Ro et al., 2003; Ahissar and Hochstein, 2004; Bar et al., 2006; Fahrenfort et al., 2007; Koivisto, 2012).”
Recurrent Processing during Object Recognition (2013, background): “A similar weakening dynamic has been observed during electrophysiological recordings of figure-ground segmentation when subjects are shown a visual mask (Fahrenfort et al., 2007).”