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Violations of sensorimotor theories of visual experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Bruce Bridgeman
Bruce Bridgeman*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA95064http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/Psych/Faculty/bridgeman.html
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Abstract:

Although the sensorimotor account is a significant step forward, it cannot explain experiences of entoptic phenomena that violate normal sensorimotor contingencies but nonetheless are perceived as visual. Nervous system structure limits how they can be interpreted. Neurophysiology, combined with a sensorimotor theory, can account for space constancy by denying the existence of permanent representations of states that must be corrected or updated.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 904 - 905
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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Footnotes

Commentary onO'Regan & Noë (2001). A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness. BBS 24(5):939–1031.