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Seeing wood because of the trees? A case of failure in reverse-engineering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Philip J. Benson
Philip J. Benson
Affiliation:
University Laboratory of Physiology, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, United [email protected] www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~pjb
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Abstract

Failure to take note of distinctive attributes in the distal stimulus leads to an inadequate proximal encoding. Representation of similarities in Chorus suffers in this regard. Distinctive qualities may require additional complex representation (e.g., reference to linguistic terms) in order to facilitate discrimination. Additional semantic information, which configures proximal attributes, permits accurate identification of true veridical stimuli.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 468
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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