Microgenesis of Anticipation: Windowing the Present

Albertazzi, Liliana

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“…Indeed, as Benussi experimentally verified many years ago, salience is a specific characteristic of consciousness (Benussi, 1913;see Albertazzi, 2001), which is already working at the microlevel of the present conscious awareness (James's specious present). As already shown by Benussi at the beginning of the twentieth century, the present awareness is functionally articulated in different, qualitative durations (five in Benussi's research; see also Rensink, 2002. On this point see Albertazzi, 1999Albertazzi, , 2019b. This means that conscious awareness cannot be compositionally generated from below, from individual temporal atoms.…”

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“…It is certainly true that a well-known Husserlian claim against any form of naturalization of phenomenology, that is, its reduction to natural sciences, surely played a role in its exclusion from scientific appreciation (Albertazzi, 2018(Albertazzi, , 2019bHusserl, 1965). There is general skepticism concerning whether a science of phenomena of consciousness or a neutral science of appearances (Stumpf, 1906), its methodological implications, its measurement and mathematical modelling can be really feasible without adopting a reductionistic viewpoint (Albertazzi, 2015b(Albertazzi, , 2021.…”

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Experimental phenomenology, a challenge.

Albertazzi

2021

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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Experimental phenomenology is both a theory and a method and is derived from, but not the same as, Gestalt psychology. The theoretical foundations of this methodological approach maintain that the kind of information obtained during conscious perceiving or imagining is directly given in present awareness, is qualitative in nature, is endowed with meaning, and is not merely a product of the computational representation, retrieval, or elaboration of physical stimuli. From a phenomenological standpoint, a broad line of current research of experimental psychology reflects, methodologically, a reductionistic simulation of the physical sciences and fails, theoretically, to explain the laws of dependence among the (ontologically) different levels of reality. Sharing common phenomenological foundations for the experimental study of sensory consciousness, the five articles in this special issue and the two other following sections describe perceptual "illusions," three-dimensional spatial perceptions, perception of color and light, expressive qualities, and other sensory phenomena as studied by experimental phenomenology differently from psychophysical research.

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Experimental phenomenology, a challenge.

Albertazzi

2021

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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“…An important first step is to acknowledge that 3D perception is an intentional subjective construct and not a referent to an objective external reality (Vishwanath, 2005(Vishwanath, , 2010. From a more contemporary perspective, this amounts to the claim that encodings that underlie the perception of 3D space are inherently anticipatory (Albertazzi, 2017;Vishwanath, 2018).…”

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“…We do not perceive values or symbols, but rather have awareness of spatial constructs such as distance, space, surfaces, objects, scale, and so on. These contents of conscious visual awareness are a direct communication of the self-directed anticipatory meaning of these spatial constructs (Albertazzi, 2017;Vishwanath, 2018). Quantity and magnitude are no doubt embedded in this content, since we are able to guide actions and make quantitative judgments on the basis of our awareness, but they are not apparent in the immediate contents of spatial awareness.…”

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The conscious awareness of visual space: A tripartite encoding model.

Vishwanath¹

2021

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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The prevailing model of 3D vision proposes that the visual system recovers a single objective and internally consistent representation of physical 3D space based on a process of ideal-observer probabilistic inference. A significant challenge for this model has been in explaining the contents of our subjective awareness of visual space. Here I argue that integrating phenomenological observations, empirical data, evolutionary logic and neurophysiological evidence leads to the conjecture that the human conscious awareness of visual space is underwritten by multiple, sometimes mutually inconsistent, spatial encodings.By assessing four primary competencies in the conscious awareness of space, three major types of spatial encodings are conjectured. Among the most primitive of these is proposed to support the competency of the conscious awareness of distance at an ambulatory scale (operationally defined as egocentric distance) and is hypothesised to originate in medial temporal allocortex. The second is proposed to support the competency of awareness of object layout and 3D shape without scale (operationally, relative depth). This encoding is hypothesised to have evolved from more primitive encodings that provide a depth-ordered segmentation of the visual field. The third encoding is proposed to support the competency of fine-grained awareness of intra-and inter-object spatial separation in near space (operationally, scaled or absolute depth) and instantiated in the posterior parietal cortex. This encoding is conjectured to underlie the phenomenology of object solidity, spatial separation, tangibility and object realness that is often referred to as stereopsis. The combined effect of the first and third competencies (ambulatory distance and near-space scaled spatial separation) is conjectured to contribute to the feeling of spatial immersion/presence.

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“…This is the essential Husserlian proposal of anticipation that seems to be missing in the book. Anticipation, from a phenomenological viewpoint, is a structural dimension of the present, not a forecasting based on past learning (Albertazzi, 2017). The causes governing these specific phenomena are qualitative, ranging from similarity to tonal proximity and whole/parts internal organization (see, e.g., Hachen & Albertazzi, in press).…”

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