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Professor Publishes Third Book Surrounding Visual Perception
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Lindsay Lewis
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Haluk Ogmen, chair and professor of electrical & computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has published this third book in three years on the phenomena surrounding visual perception, specifically how and why the brain perceives various stimuli.

The book titled "Experimental Phenomena of Consciousness: A Brief Dictionary" was written in collaboration with Talis Bachman, professor of psychology at the University of Tartu, Estonia and Bruno Breitmeyer, professor of psychology at the University of Houston. Specifically, the work is a collection of phenomena that illustrate the effects of certain experimental paradigms.

"We take for granted what we perceive," said Ogmen. "There is a lot of missing information between what we physically visualize and what the brain perceives. We're exploring why there is a gap between visual perception and truth."

Ogmen has recently published two other books with Breitmeyer. In 2006, "Visual Masking: Time Slices through Conscious and Unconscious Vision" was published by Oxford University Press. The book explores the temporal aspects of visual masking, a phenomenon defined as the brain's inability to recognize one stimulus when introduced to a second one.

Ogmen and Breitmeyer also published "The First Half Second: The Microgenesis and Temporal Dynamics of Unconscious and Conscious Visual Processes" in 2006, which is a collection of edited chapters from an NIH-funded international workshop on temporal dynamics. The book explores what happens during the first half second of visual processing, which is the time between when light actually hits the eye's retina until the brain responds. Furthermore, it examines this dynamic between conscious and unconscious visual processing, offering a variety of perspectives from contributing neuroscience and psychology experts.

"Second quote about the importance of this field of study," Ogmen said.

Ogmen is currently a participating faculty member in the college's Center for Neuro-Engineering & Cognitive Science. His research involves neuro-engineering, vision, visual psychophysics, sensor motor control and computational neuroscience.

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