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Cognitive impenetrability of early vision does not imply cognitive impenetrability of perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Cathleen M. Moore
Cathleen M. Moore
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802 [email protected]/cathleen
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Abstract

Pylyshyn argues that early vision is cognitively impenetrable, and therefore – contrary to knowledge-based theories of perception – that perception is noncontinuous with cognition. Those processes that are included in “early vision,” however, represent at best only one component of perception, and it is important that it is not the component with which most knowledge-based theories are concerned. Pylyshyn's analysis should be taken as a possible source of refinement of knowledge-based theories of perception, rather than as a condemnation of them.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 385 - 386
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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