Although the study of visual perception has made more progress in the past 40 years than
any other area of cognitive science, there remain major disagreements as to how closely …

What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

This article responds to two unresolved and crucial problems of cognitive science:(1) What is
actually accomplished by functions of the nervous system that we ordinarily describe in the …

Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical, and psychological approaches to vision
rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the …

Abstracts Cognitive science typically postulates unconscious mental phenomena,
computational or otherwise, to explain cognitive capacities. The mental phenomena in …

Investigations of the function of consciousness in human information processing have
focused mainly on two questions:(1) Where does consciousness enter into the information …

The two contrasting theoretical approaches to visual perception, the constructivist and the
ecological, are briefly presented and illustrated through their analyses of space and size …

When the stored representation of the meaning of a stimulus is accessed through the
processing of a sensory input it is maintained in an activated state for a certain amount of …

A necessary consequence of the nature of neural transmission systems is that as change in
the physical state of a time-varying event takes place, delays produce error between the …

Consciousness is a mongrel concept: there are a number of very different
“consciousnesses.” Phenomenal consciousness is experience; the phenomenally conscious …