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Are we underestimating the richness of visual experience?

It has been argued that the bandwidth of perceptual experience is low—that the richness of experience is illusory and that the amount of visual information observers can perceive and remember is extremely limited. However, the evidence suggests that this postulated poverty of experiential content is...

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Autores principales: Haun, Andrew M, Tononi, Giulio, Koch, Christof, Tsuchiya, Naotsugu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6007133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30042833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nc/niw023
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Koch, Christof
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description It has been argued that the bandwidth of perceptual experience is low—that the richness of experience is illusory and that the amount of visual information observers can perceive and remember is extremely limited. However, the evidence suggests that this postulated poverty of experiential content is illusory and that visual phenomenology is immensely rich. To properly estimate perceptual content, experimentalists must move beyond the limitations of binary alternative-forced choice procedures and analyze reports of experience more broadly. This will open our eyes to the true richness of experience and to its neuronal substrates.
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spelling pubmed-60071332018-07-24 Are we underestimating the richness of visual experience? Haun, Andrew M Tononi, Giulio Koch, Christof Tsuchiya, Naotsugu Neurosci Conscious Spotlight Commentary It has been argued that the bandwidth of perceptual experience is low—that the richness of experience is illusory and that the amount of visual information observers can perceive and remember is extremely limited. However, the evidence suggests that this postulated poverty of experiential content is illusory and that visual phenomenology is immensely rich. To properly estimate perceptual content, experimentalists must move beyond the limitations of binary alternative-forced choice procedures and analyze reports of experience more broadly. This will open our eyes to the true richness of experience and to its neuronal substrates. Oxford University Press 2017-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6007133/ /pubmed/30042833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nc/niw023 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_short Are we underestimating the richness of visual experience?
title_sort are we underestimating the richness of visual experience?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6007133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30042833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nc/niw023
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