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Binary oppositions and what focuses in focal attention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Cyril Latimer
Cyril Latimer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australiacyril@psych.usyd.edu.au www.psych.usyd.edu.au/staff/cyril
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Abstract

Pylyshyn makes a convincing case that early visual processing is cognitively impenetrable, and although I question the utility of binary oppositions such as penetrable/impenetrable, for the most part I am in agreement. The author does not provide explicit designations or denotations for the terms penetrable and impenetrable, which appear quite arbitrary. Furthermore, the use of focal attention smacks of an homunculus, and the account appears to slip too easily between the perceptual, the cognitive, and the neurophysiological.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 383 - 384
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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