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Change blindness, Gibson, and the sensorimotor theory of vision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Brian J. Scholl  and
Daniel J. Simons
Brian J. Scholl
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205 Brian.Scholl@yale.edu http://pantheon.yale.edu/~bs265
Daniel J. Simons
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 dsimons@wjh.harvard.edu http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~viscog/lab/
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Abstract

We suggest that the sensorimotor “theory” of vision is really an unstructured collection of separate ideas, and that much of the evidence cited in its favor at best supports only a subset of these ideas. As an example, we note that work on change blindness does not “vindicate” (or even speak to) much of the sensorimotor framework. Moreover, the ideas themselves are not always internally consistent. Finally, the proposed framework draws on ideas initially espoused by James Gibson, but does little to differentiate itself from those earlier views. For even part of this framework to become testable, it must specify which sources of evidence can support or contradict each of the component hypotheses.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 1004 - 1006
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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