Perceptual Learning and the Contents of Perception

Connolly, Kevin

doi:10.1007/s10670-014-9608-y

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“…While shifting attention involves a change in perceptual experience, it is not obvious that it involves a change in representational content of expertise (Connolly 2014). Taken together, this literature supports the view that attention's effect on perception is widespread.…”

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Perceptual content is indexed to attention

Prettyman

2016

Synthese

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Attention seems to raise a problem for pure representationalism, the view that phenomenal content supervenes on representational content. The problem is that shifts of attention sometimes seem to bring about a change in phenomenal content without a change in representational content. I argue that the representationalist can meet this challenge, but that doing so requires a new view of the representational content of perception. On this new view, the representational content of perception is always relative to a way of attending. I call this the attention-indexed view of perceptual content.

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Perceptual content is indexed to attention

Prettyman

2016

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“…One popular hypothesis is that phenomenal difference arises due to representing a kind property that is irreducible to lower‐level properties (Siegel, ; Bayne, ) . On the other hand, it is a common claim that the R‐property responsible for change in phenomenal character is identical to one of the lower‐level properties like those connected with size, colour, spatial position, and shape (Connolly, ; Briscoe, ; Jagnow, ).…”

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Perceptual Kinds as Supervening Sortals

Skrzypulec

2018

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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It seems intuitive that in situations of perceptual recognition, additional properties are represented. While much has been written about the significance of such properties for perceptual phenomenology, it is still unclear (a) what the relation between recognition-based properties and lower-level perceptual properties is and (b) whether it is justified to classify them as kind properties. Relying on results in cognitive psychology, I argue that recognition-based properties (I) are irreducible, high-level properties, and (II) are kind properties by virtue of being sortal properties but (III) supervene on lower-level properties and so are unlikely to be natural kind properties.

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“…However, he focuses solely on art expertise, whereas I am focused on visual expertise in general. Arstila (2014) and Connolly (2014) are the only authors in the philosophical literature that argue that perceptual learning processes lead experts to enjoy different visual experiences than novices. Arstila (2014) also notes that experts might visually experience gestalt properties, but this is merely mentioned as a possibility and is not developed or defended in his paper.…”

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Landers

2020

The Philosophical Quarterly

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Through extensive training, experts acquire specialized knowledge and abilities. In this paper, I argue that experts also acquire specialized visual experiences. Specifically, I articulate and defend the account that experts enjoy visual experiences that represent gestalt properties through perceptual learning. I survey an array of empirical studies on face perception and perceptual expertise that support this account. I also look at studies on perceptual adaptation that some might argue present a problem for my account. I show how the data are subject to an interpretation that is friendly to it. Last, I address two theoretical objections to the claim that visual experiences represent gestalt properties.

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Perceptual Learning and the Contents of Perception

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

Perceptual content is indexed to attention

Perceptual content is indexed to attention

Perceptual Kinds as Supervening Sortals

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