University of HoustonDepartment of Psychology
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Bruno G. Breitmeyer

Professor

Bruno G. Breitmeyer
Bruno G. Breitmeyer
Doctorate: Stanford University
Undergraduate: University of Illinois


Research Interests
  • Visual selective attention
  • Perception of Motion
  • Visual masking explorations of the dynamics of unconscious and conscious form perception
  • Parallel pathways in visual processing
  • Visual function in schizophrenia

Teaching

  • Research methods and design
  • Visual perception
  • Visual perception and visual art
  • Biological basis of behavior
 
E-mail:  BrunoB@UH.EDU
 
Selected Publications
 
Breitmeyer, B. G., Kafaligönül, H., Ogmen, H., Mardon, L., Todd, S., & Ziegler, R. (2006). Meta- and paracontrast reveal differences between contour- and brightness-processing mechanisms. Vision Research, 46, 2645-2658.

Breitmeyer, B. G. & Ogmen, H. (2006). Visual Masking: Time Slices through Conscious and Unconscious Vision (2nd Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Ogmen, H. & Breitmeyer, B. G. (2006). The First Half Second: Temporal Dynamics of Conscious and Unconscious Visual Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ogmen, H., Breitmeyer, B. G., Todd, S., & Mardon, L. (2006). Target recovery in metacontrast: Effects of contrast. Vision Research, 46, 4726-4734.

Breitmeyer, B. G. and Ogmen, H. (2007) Visual masking. Scholarpedia, 2(7):3330

Wynn, J. K., Light, G. K., Breitmeyer, B., Nuechterlein, K. H., & Green, M. F. (2005). Event-related gamma activity in schizophrenia patients during a visual backward masking task. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 2330-2336.

Breitmeyer, B. G., Ogmen, H., Ramon, J., & Chen, J. (2005). Unconscious priming by forms and their parts. Visual Cognition, 12, 720-736.

Breitmeyer, B. G., Ro, T., & Ogmen, H. (2004). A Comparison of masking by visual and transcranial magnetic stimulation: Implications for the study of conscious and unconscious visual processing. Consciousness and Cognition, 13, 829-843.

Breitmeyer, B. G., Ogmen, H., & Chen, J. (2004). Unconscious priming by color and form: Different processes and levels. Consciousness and Cognition, 13, 138-157.

Breitmeyer, B. G., Ro, T., & Singhal, N (2004). Unconscious priming with chromatic stimuli occurs at stimulus- not percept-dependent levels of visual processing. Psychological Science, 15, 198-202.

Green, M.F., Mintz, J., Salveson, D., Nuechterlein, K. H. Breitmeyer, B., Light G. A., & Braff, D. L. (2003). Visual masking as a probe for abnormal gamma range activity in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 53, 1113-1119.

Ogmen, H., Breitmeyer, B. G. & Melvin, R. (2003). The what and where in visual masking. Vision Research, 43, 1337-1350.

Breitmeyer, B. G., Ro, T., & Singhal, N (2004). Unconscious priming with chromatic stimuli occurs at stimulus- not percept-dependent levels of visual processing. Psychological Science, 15, 198-202.

Breitmeyer, B. G., Ogmen, H., & Chen, J. (2004). Unconscious priming by color and form: Different processes and levels. Consciousness and Cognition, 13, 138-157.

Breitmeyer, B. G., Ro, T., & Ogmen, H. (2004). A Comparison of masking by visual and transcranial magnetic stimulation: Implications for the study of conscious and unconscious visual processing. Consciousness and Cognition, 13, 829-843.

Breitmeyer, B. G. & Ogmen, H. (2000). Recent models and findings in backward viusal masking: a comparison, review, and update. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 1572-1595.

Breitmeyer, B., Ehrenstein, A., Pritchard, K., Hiscock, M. & Crisan, J. (1999). The Roles of location specificity and masking mechanisms in the attentional Blink. Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 798-809.

Green, M. F., Nuechterlein, K. H., Breitmeyer, B., & Mintz, J. (1999). Backward masking in unmedicated schizophrenic patients in psychotic remission: suggestive evidence for aberrant cortical oscillations. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 1367-1373.

Green, M. F., Nuechterlein, K. H., & Breitmeyer, B. G. (1997). Backward masking performance in unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients: Evidence for vulnerability indicator. Archives of General Psychiatry, 54, 465-472.

Breitmeyer, B. G. (1992). Parallel processing in human vision: History, review, and critique. In J. R. Brannan (Ed.), Applications of Parallel Processing in Vision. Amsterdam: North-Holland.