The Role of Awareness in Visuomotor Control, Perception, and Spatial Attention
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 230
Special Issue Editors
Interests: visual perception; action; body perception; visuospatial attention; motor resonance; TMS; EEG
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Interests: cognitive neuroscience; visual awareness; conscious perception; visual processing; TMS; EEG; TMS-EEG; event related optical signal (EROS)
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Interests: visual perception; action; visuomotor control; visual consciousness; fMRI; EEG; visual psychophysics; kinematics; size perception; depth perception; multisensory integration
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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 the incoming visual information becomes conscious, leading to the subjective experience of seeing. Studying these processes is at the cutting edge 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 the person’s awareness? With this Special 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.
This research topic welcomes both theoretical and empirical contributions that address these questions using any relevant techniques and methods.
Dr. Sonia Mele
Dr. Chiara Mazzi
Dr. Irene Sperandio
Dr. Adriana Salatino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- visual awareness
- visual perception
- action
- visuospatial attention
- visuomotor integration
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Planned Papers
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Title: The role of visual awareness in perceptual organization
Authors: Ruth (Rutie) Kimchi
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Insititue of Information Processing and Decision Making, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
