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Attention and perceptual adaptation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2013

Ned Block  and
Susanna Siegel
Ned Block
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, New York University, New York, NY 10003. ned.block@nyu.edu http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/
Susanna Siegel
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. ssiegel@fas.harvard.edu http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ssiegel/
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Abstract

Clark advertises the predictive coding (PC) framework as applying to a wide range of phenomena, including attention. We argue that for many attentional phenomena, the predictive coding picture either makes false predictions, or else it offers no distinctive explanation of those phenomena, thereby reducing its explanatory power.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , June 2013 , pp. 205 - 206
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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