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| Title |
Will understanding vision require a wholly empirical paradigm?
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, July 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01072 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Dale Purves, Yaniv Morgenstern, William T. Wojtach |
| Abstract |
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. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 28 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 27 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 6 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 18% |
| Professor | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 11% |
| Researcher | 3 | 11% |
| Other | 6 | 21% |
| Unknown | 2 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 14 | 50% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 11% |
| Engineering | 2 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 11% |
| Unknown | 3 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 January 2022.
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