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Attention alters predictive processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Andy Clark
Andy Clark*
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School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AD, United Kingdom andy.clark@ed.ac.uk http://edin.ac/1tqX3sO
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Abstract

Firestone & Scholl (F&S) bracket many attentional effects as “peripheral,” altering the inputs to a cognitive process without altering the processing itself. By way of contrast, I highlight an emerging class of neurocomputational models that imply profound, pervasive, nonperipheral influences of attention on perception. This transforms the landscape for empirical debates concerning possible top-down effects on perception.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e234
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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