Institute of Public Law and Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia.
Conscious Cogn. 2010 Jun;19(2):667-71; discussion 672-3. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.01.012. Epub 2010 Feb 23.
While the majority of perceptual phenomena based research on consciousness is implicitly nomothetic, some idiographic perspective can be sometimes highly valuable for it. It may turn out that after having had a closer look at individual differences in the expression of psychometric functions a need to revise some nomothetic laws considered as the general ones arises as well. A study of individual differences in metacontrast masking published in this issue superbly illustrates this. A myriad of urgent research objectives emerges out of this study, most of them important both for clearing up the still messy theoretical picture on visual masking and for the beginning of asking whether perceptual awareness mechanisms are so universal at all. In this commentary the problems pertinent to this issue are discussed.
虽然基于意识的大多数感知现象的研究都是隐含的规律论的，但有时一些具体的观点对其可能非常有价值。事实可能证明，在仔细观察心理物理函数表达中的个体差异之后，也需要修正一些被认为是普遍规律的规律论法则。本期发表的一项关于对比掩蔽个体差异的研究极好地说明了这一点。这项研究产生了无数紧迫的研究目标，其中大多数对于澄清视觉掩蔽中仍然混乱的理论图景以及开始探讨感知意识机制是否如此普遍都非常重要。在这篇评论中，讨论了与这个问题相关的问题。
