Editorial: Where the rubber meets the road in visual perception: High temporal‐precision brain signals to top‐down and bottom‐up influences on perceptual resolution

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Analysis of human brain responses from various neuroimaging techniques (EEG, S‐EEG, ECoG, or MEG) to visual stimuli in both the time‐ and the time‐frequency domain have provided means for researchers to understand the early stages of visual perception in humans. In the time‐domain, event‐related potentials (ERPs) have been used as neurocognitive tools to study a wide range of cognitive processing in humans, e.g. attention, vigilance, arousal, since the 1960’s (e.g. Haider et al. 1964; Spong et al. 1965; Eason et al. 1969). Importantly, the early neurophysiological studies also drew attention to the importance of carefully characterizing the visual stimulus – to account for non‐linear behavior of ERPs especially Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials (van der Tweel & Lunel, 1965; van der Tweel & Spekreijse, 1969).