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Diego Fernandez-Duque

Cognitive Neurology
Sunnybrook Hospital, University of Toronto
Cognitive Neurology, A421
Toronto, ONTARIO M4N 3M5 Canada
Office phone: (416) 480-6100 x.3396
Office fax: (416) 480-4552

Email: diego@rotman-baycrest.on.ca
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Change Detection Research Interests
Many theories of perception argue that in the absence of focused attention our mental representations become ephemeral, and representation of change becomes impossible. In contrast, Ian Thornton and I have found that the visual system can automatically integrate representations as they change across time, but that without focused attention such representations fail to reach awareness and consequently are not reported. We are currently using neuroimaging methods to identify the neural marker of such an implicit representation of change.

Other Research Interests
Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention, Automatic Processes, Metaphors in Scientific Reasoning


Change Detection Publications
Fernandez-Duque, D., & Thornton, I. M. (2000). Change detection without awareness: Do explicit reports underestimate the representation of change in the visual system? Visual Cognition, 7,324-344.

Thornton, I. M., & Fernandez-Duque, D. (2001). An implicit measure of undetected change. Spatial Vision. (in press)



Last updated: January 9, 2001
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