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Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): the case of complexity and “context-sensitivity” in vision
I review the data on human visual perception that reveal the critical role played by non-visual contextual factors influencing visual activity. The global perspective that progressively emerges reveals that vision is sensitive to multiple couplings with other systems whose nature and levels of abstr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4271595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25566115 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01425 |
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description | I review the data on human visual perception that reveal the critical role played by non-visual contextual factors influencing visual activity. The global perspective that progressively emerges reveals that vision is sensitive to multiple couplings with other systems whose nature and levels of abstraction in science are highly variable. Contrary to some views where vision is immersed in modular hard-wired modules, rather independent from higher-level or other non-cognitive processes, converging data gathered in this article suggest that visual perception can be theorized in the larger context of biological, physical, and social systems with which it is coupled, and through which it is enacted. Therefore, any attempt to model complexity and multiscale couplings, or to develop a complex synthesis in the fields of mind, brain, and behavior, shall involve a systematic empirical study of both connectedness between systems or subsystems, and the embodied, multiscale and flexible teleology of subsystems. The conceptual model (Multiscale Enaction Model [MEM]) that is introduced in this paper finally relates empirical evidence gathered from psychology to biocomputational data concerning the human brain. Both psychological and biocomputational descriptions of MEM are proposed in order to help fill in the gap between scales of scientific analysis and to provide an account for both the autopoiesis-driven search for information, and emerging perception. |
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spelling | pubmed-42715952015-01-06 Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): the case of complexity and “context-sensitivity” in vision Laurent, Éric Front Psychol Psychology I review the data on human visual perception that reveal the critical role played by non-visual contextual factors influencing visual activity. The global perspective that progressively emerges reveals that vision is sensitive to multiple couplings with other systems whose nature and levels of abstraction in science are highly variable. Contrary to some views where vision is immersed in modular hard-wired modules, rather independent from higher-level or other non-cognitive processes, converging data gathered in this article suggest that visual perception can be theorized in the larger context of biological, physical, and social systems with which it is coupled, and through which it is enacted. Therefore, any attempt to model complexity and multiscale couplings, or to develop a complex synthesis in the fields of mind, brain, and behavior, shall involve a systematic empirical study of both connectedness between systems or subsystems, and the embodied, multiscale and flexible teleology of subsystems. The conceptual model (Multiscale Enaction Model [MEM]) that is introduced in this paper finally relates empirical evidence gathered from psychology to biocomputational data concerning the human brain. Both psychological and biocomputational descriptions of MEM are proposed in order to help fill in the gap between scales of scientific analysis and to provide an account for both the autopoiesis-driven search for information, and emerging perception. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4271595/ /pubmed/25566115 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01425 Text en Copyright © 2014 Laurent. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Laurent, Éric Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): the case of complexity and “context-sensitivity” in vision |
title | Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): the case of complexity and “context-sensitivity” in vision |
title_full | Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): the case of complexity and “context-sensitivity” in vision |
title_fullStr | Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): the case of complexity and “context-sensitivity” in vision |
title_full_unstemmed | Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): the case of complexity and “context-sensitivity” in vision |
title_short | Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): the case of complexity and “context-sensitivity” in vision |
title_sort | multiscale enaction model (mem): the case of complexity and “context-sensitivity” in vision |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4271595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25566115 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01425 |
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