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The distinction between perception and judgment, if there is one, is not clear and intuitive

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Andreas Keller
Andreas Keller*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065. [email protected]
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Abstract

Firestone & Scholl (F&S) consider the distinction between judgment and perception to be clear and intuitive. Their intuition is based on considerations about visual perception. That such a distinction is clear, or even existent, is less obvious in nonvisual modalities. Failing to distinguish between perception and judgment is therefore not a flaw in investigating top-down effects of cognition on perception, as the authors suggest. Instead, it is the result of considering the variety of human perception.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e249
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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