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Studies on cognitively driven attention suggest that late vision is cognitively penetrated, whereas early vision is not

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Athanassios Raftopoulos
Athanassios Raftopoulos*
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Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus raftop@ucy.ac.cy
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Abstract

Firestone & Scholl (F&S) examine, among other possible cognitive influences on perception, the effects of peripheral attention and conclude that these effects do not entail cognition directly affecting perception. Studies in neuroscience with other forms of attention, however, suggest that a stage of vision, namely late vision, is cognitively penetrated mainly through the effects of cognitively driven spatial and object-centered attention.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e256
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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