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Belief in the primacy of fantasy is misleading and unnecessary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

William A. Phillips
William A. Phillips*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, United Kingdom
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Abstract:

We can live in fantasy only if we survive in reality. Visual experience that carries information about the real world – that is, normal perception – serves that goal. Normal perception is not merely constrained hallucination, and it can usually be distinguished from internally generated images, with which it is rarely confused. Modulatory processes, such as attention, do indeed affect most levels of perceptual processing, but they do so without invalidating the transmission of the signals that they modulate.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 802 - 803
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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