Mind-Brain Lecture: “The electrophysiology of seeing and not seeing”
Speaker Niko Busch (Berlin)
Date 18 March 2010, 18:30
Location Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, FESTSAAL (2nd floor), 10117 Berlin
Contact Annette Winkelmann
Organized by Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Introduction: Arno Villringer
What do we really see when we look out into the world? The phenomenon of “change blindness” – when large changes in scenes go unnoticed – have led researchers to conclude that the visual system does not construct detailed internal models of a visual scene. Change blindness and change detection paradigms have been used to study the role of attention and memory in the perception of visual scenes. Many of these studies have found that visual representations are actually richer than initially thought, although information about visual scenes may be stored in a way that does not allow conscious access. I will present recent studies that investigated how much information about the world is represented in the visual system, in which format this information is processed and how neural correlates of change detection/change blindness relate to the phenomenology of (not) seeing changes.