Abstract
Visual perception is the culmination of neural events transpiring within a distributed network within the brain. The network, while clearly not serial in nature, has a hierarchical structure implying the analysis of different aspects of the visual scene at different stages of processing. In recent years brain imaging techniques have become very popular as a means for identifying functional stages of processing within this hierarchy. We should not lose sight of the fact, however, that psychophysical techniques are also available for identifying sequences of processing-applied in this fashion, these techniques embody what is termed psychoanatomy. In this talk, I will summarize a couple of these techniques, along with some results from their application. I hope to show that these psychoanatomical techniques, in concert with brain imaging, offer the best hope of unraveling the complexities of the neural architecture supporting visual perception.
