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The cognitive impenetrability of visual perception: Old wine in a new bottle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Howard Egeth
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 egeth@jhu.edu www.psy.jhu.edu/~egeth/

Abstract

Pylyshyn's argument is very similar to one made in the 1960s to the effect that vision may be influenced by spatial selective attention being directed to distinctive stimulus features, but not by mental set for meaning or membership in an ill-defined category. More recent work points to a special role for spatial attention in determining the contents of perception.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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