When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept

What is an “illusion”? I would like to argue that (A) there is no coherent and meaningful definition of the word “illusion” and (B) the majority of the things we have previously labelled as “illusions” can be better categorised into three classes of perceptual effects: (i) those that should not be r...

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Autor principal: Rogers, Brian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Human Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9470761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36118968
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.957740
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description What is an “illusion”? I would like to argue that (A) there is no coherent and meaningful definition of the word “illusion” and (B) the majority of the things we have previously labelled as “illusions” can be better categorised into three classes of perceptual effects: (i) those that should not be regarded as illusory according to any definition; (ii) those that are simply consequences of “how our perceptual systems work” and (iii) those that are a consequence of using artificial or impoverished stimulus situations.
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spelling pubmed-94707612022-09-15 When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept Rogers, Brian Front Hum Neurosci Human Neuroscience What is an “illusion”? I would like to argue that (A) there is no coherent and meaningful definition of the word “illusion” and (B) the majority of the things we have previously labelled as “illusions” can be better categorised into three classes of perceptual effects: (i) those that should not be regarded as illusory according to any definition; (ii) those that are simply consequences of “how our perceptual systems work” and (iii) those that are a consequence of using artificial or impoverished stimulus situations. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9470761/ /pubmed/36118968 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.957740 Text en Copyright © 2022 Rogers. https://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) and the copyright owner(s) 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.
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When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept
title When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept
title_full When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept
title_fullStr When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept
title_full_unstemmed When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept
title_short When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept
title_sort when is an illusion not an illusion? an alternative view of the illusion concept
topic Human Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9470761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36118968
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.957740
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