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The Cartesian Broadway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Christopher W. Tyler
Christopher W. Tyler
Affiliation:
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94115 [email protected] www.ski.org/cwt.html
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Abstract

Although Pessoa, Teller & Noë make excellent points concerning the need for a mechanism of filling-in, they throw out the baby of neural specificity with the bathwater of isomorphism and the homuncular observer. The core act of perception is sensory processing by a stationary observer and does not require overt behavioral interaction with the environment. The complexity of intracortical interconnectivity does not preclude local specificity in the representation of higher-order stimulus properties.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 775 - 776
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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