Abstract
This paper proposes a novel experimental approach that would help to determine whether perspectival shapes, such as the elliptical profile of a tilted plate or coin, are part of perceptual experience. If they are part of perceptual experience, then it should be possible to identify these shapes simply by attending appropriately to them. Otherwise, in order to identify perspectival shapes they must first be constructed in the visual imagination. We propose that these accounts of perspectival identification can be tested by measuring the interference between visual and verbal working memory load, respectively, and the identification of perspectival shapes in the appearance of a 3D object.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 855-877 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Dec 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We wish to thank Galia Avidan, Robert Briscoe, Zohar Bronfman, Randy Clarke, Paul Conway, Baruch Eitam, Jonathan Folstein, Nurit Gronau, Sean Kelly, Arnon Keren, Ariel Meirav, Lior Shmuelof, Mark Wagner, Aaron Wilbur, Wayne Wu, Yaffa Yeshurun, and two anonymous referees for helpful feedback and discussion.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature.
Keywords
- Attention
- Imagination
- Perception
- Perspective
- Vision
- Working memory
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Philosophy
- Cognitive Neuroscience