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Attentive selection penetrates (almost) the entire visual system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

John K. Tsotsos
John K. Tsotsos
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H5 tsotsos@vis.toronto.edu www.cs.toronto.edu/~tsotsos
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Abstract

Pylyshyn claims that if a system is cognitively penetrable, its function depends in a semantically coherent way to the organism's goals and beliefs. He rejects evidence of attentional modulation observed in neurons within the visual system, claiming that any modulation seen is not logically related to goals and behavior. I present some of this evidence and claim that it is connected in exactly the way Pylyshyn requires and thus it refutes his main thesis.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 397
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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