Trends and styles in visual masking.

The topic of the present edition is visual masking paradigms-as powerful tool for demonstrating the processing of nonconscious visual information. In the present issue one article presents an improved methodology for disentangling perceptual and temporal influences in markers. Another paper demonstrates that preemptive control, or DPS, mediates the allocation of attention towards possible targets. One of the contributions specify conditions under which DPS-like effects are found as opposed to conditions under which stimulus-driven effects are found. A study of two illusions which the prime may cause in a trailing stimulus, a temporal pre-dating of the mask and a perception of motion in later stimuli adjacent to the prime is presented in the issue. Another contribution addresses how the percept of a stimulus is altered by a temporal and spatial interplay of two backward masks or of one forward mask and two backwards masks. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)