Product, not process: Metacognitive monitoring of visual performance during sustained attention.

The performance of the human visual system exhibits moment-to-moment fluctuations influenced by multiple neurocognitive factors. To deal with this instability of the visual system, introspective awareness of current visual performance (metacognitive monitoring) may be crucial. In this study, we investigate whether and how people can monitor their own visual performance during sustained attention by adopting confidence judgments as indicators of metacognitive monitoring - assuming that if participants can monitor visual performance, confidence judgments will accurately track performance fluctuations.

Metacognition of perceptual resolution across and around the visual field.

Do people have accurate metacognition of non-uniformities in perceptual resolution across (i.e., eccentricity) and around (i.

Partial blindness: Visual experience is not rich, but not sparse.

Is our perceptual experience constrained by an information bottleneck (i.e., the limited capacity for cognitive access), and if so, how? To answer these questions, we investigated observers' perceptual resolution for an individual face when they saw either a single face or multiple faces simultaneously.

Resilience and social change: Findings from research trends using association rule mining.

This study analyzed the historical development of with respect to multidisciplinary aspects using association rule mining (ARM). ARM is a rule-based machine-learning approach tailored to identify validated relations among multiple variables in a large dataset. This study collected author keywords from all -related literature in the Web of Science database and examined the changes in validated -related topics using ARM.

Effects of attention on visual discrimination and awareness: Evidence from eye-specific attention.

The role of attention in visual awareness is a foundational issue for understanding consciousness, but remains highly controversial. Therefore, in two experiments, we investigated whether and how attention modulates visual awareness using a monocular cuing paradigm. Although observers are not aware of which eye received a cue, a monocular cue can attract eye-specific attention to a cued eye.

Partial awareness can be induced by independent cognitive access to different spatial frequencies.

Partial awareness-an intermediate state between complete consciousness and unconsciousness-has been explained by independent cognitive access to different levels of representation in hierarchical visual processing. This account, however, cannot explain graded visual experiences in low levels. We aimed to explain partial awareness in low levels of visual processing by independent cognitive access to different spatial frequencies.