Showing papers on "Perceptual psychology published in 2023"
16 Feb 2023
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue that there is a joint in nature between seeing and thinking, perception, and cognition, and that cognition affects perception, i.e., that perception is cognitively penetrable.
Abstract: Abstract This book argues that there is a joint in nature between seeing and thinking, perception, and cognition. Perception is constitutively iconic, nonconceptual, and nonpropositional, whereas cognition does not have these properties constitutively. The book does not appeal to “intuitions,” as is common in philosophy, but to empirical evidence, including experiments in neuroscience and psychology. The book argues that cognition affects perception, i.e., that perception is cognitively penetrable, but that this does not impugn the joint in nature. A key part of the argument is that we perceive not only low-level properties like colors, shapes, and textures but also high-level properties such as faces and causation. Along the way, the book explains the difference between perception and perceptual memory, the differences between format and content, and whether perception is probabilistic despite our lack of awareness of probabilistic properties. The book argues for perceptual categories that are not concepts, that perception need not be singular, that perceptual attribution and perceptual discrimination are equally fundamental, and that basic features of the mind known as “core cognition” are not a third category in between perception and cognition. The chapter on consciousness leverages these results to argue against some of the most widely accepted theories of consciousness. Although only one chapter is about consciousness, much of the rest of the book repurposes work on consciousness to isolate the scientific basis of perception.
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01 Jan 2023
TL;DR: A history of cognitive psychology as a discipline emerged in the twentieth century is presented in this article , where it was developed in part as a counter approach to behaviorism and how cognitive psychology addressed some of the same issues as the disciplines of quantum physics and computer science, which emerged at about the same time as cognitive psychology.
Abstract: This chapter presents a history of cognitive psychology as a discipline that emerged in the twentieth century. It begins with how it developed in part as a counter approach to behaviorism and how cognitive psychology addresses some of the same issues as the disciplines of quantum physics and computer science, which were emerging at about the same time as cognitive psychology. The chapter also provides an overview of how information is stored in the human brain.