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On the roles of consciousness and representations in visual science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

David C. Earle
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, United Kingdomd.c.earle@exeter.ac.uk
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Abstract

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It is argued that there is a role for the representational conception of vision, and that this is compatible with the task-level account advocated by Pessoa et al. However, the role of representations must be understood independently of our conscious experience of vision.

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Open Peer Commentary
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press