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Carving nature at its joints or cutting its effective loops? On the dangers of trying to disentangle intertwined mental processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Robert L. Goldstone ,
Joshua R. de Leeuw  and
David H. Landy
Robert L. Goldstone
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Program in Cognitive Science Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. rgoldsto@Indiana.edu dhlandy@gmail.com josh.deleeuw@gmail.com http://www.indiana.edu/~pcl/
Joshua R. de Leeuw
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Program in Cognitive Science Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. rgoldsto@Indiana.edu dhlandy@gmail.com josh.deleeuw@gmail.com http://www.indiana.edu/~pcl/
David H. Landy
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Program in Cognitive Science Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. rgoldsto@Indiana.edu dhlandy@gmail.com josh.deleeuw@gmail.com http://www.indiana.edu/~pcl/
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Abstract

Attention is often inextricably intertwined with perception, and it is deployed not only to spatial regions, but also to sensory dimensions, learned dimensions, and learned complex configurations. Firestone & Scholl's (F&S)'s tactic of isolating visual perceptual processes from attention and action has the negative consequence of neglecting interactions that are critically important for allowing people to perceive their world in efficient and useful ways.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e244
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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