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Culture and the plasticity of perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

Michael Lifshitz Open the ORCID record for Michael Lifshitz [Opens in a new window]  and
T. M. Luhrmann
Michael Lifshitz
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Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305-2034. lifshitz@stanford.edu luhrmann@stanford.edu
T. M. Luhrmann
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305-2034. lifshitz@stanford.edu luhrmann@stanford.edu
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Abstract

Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e107
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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