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Vision and cognition: Drawing the line

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Andrew Hollingworth
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117 andrew@eyelab.msu.edu
John M. Henderson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117 eyelab.msu.edujohn@eyelab.msu.edu
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Abstract

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Pylyshyn defends a distinction between early visual perception and cognitive processing. But exactly where should the line between vision and cognition be drawn? Our research on object identification suggests that the construction of an object's visual description is isolated from contextually derived expectations. Moreover, the matching of constructed descriptions to stored descriptions appears to be similarly isolated.

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Open Peer Commentary
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press