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Will understanding vision require a wholly empirical paradigm?

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Purves, D; Morgenstern, Y; Wojtach, WT
Published in: Frontiers in psychology
January 2015

Based on electrophysiological and anatomical studies, a prevalent conception is that the visual system recovers features of the world from retinal images to generate perceptions and guide behavior. This paradigm, however, is unable to explain why visual perceptions differ from physical measurements, or how behavior could routinely succeed on this basis. An alternative is that vision does not recover features of the world, but assigns perceptual qualities empirically by associating frequently occurring stimulus patterns with useful responses on the basis of survival and reproductive success. The purpose of the present article is to briefly describe this strategy of vision and the evidence for it.

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Frontiers in psychology

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1664-1078

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1664-1078

Publication Date

January 2015

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6

Start / End Page

1072

Related Subject Headings

  • 52 Psychology
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Purves, D., Morgenstern, Y., & Wojtach, W. T. (2015). Will understanding vision require a wholly empirical paradigm? Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1072. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01072
Purves, Dale, Yaniv Morgenstern, and William T. Wojtach. “Will understanding vision require a wholly empirical paradigm?Frontiers in Psychology 6 (January 2015): 1072. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01072.
Purves D, Morgenstern Y, Wojtach WT. Will understanding vision require a wholly empirical paradigm? Frontiers in psychology. 2015 Jan;6:1072.
Purves, Dale, et al. “Will understanding vision require a wholly empirical paradigm?Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 6, Jan. 2015, p. 1072. Epmc, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01072.
Purves D, Morgenstern Y, Wojtach WT. Will understanding vision require a wholly empirical paradigm? Frontiers in psychology. 2015 Jan;6:1072.

Published In

Frontiers in psychology

DOI

EISSN

1664-1078

ISSN

1664-1078

Publication Date

January 2015

Volume

6

Start / End Page

1072

Related Subject Headings

  • 52 Psychology
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology