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Cognitive penetration: Would we know it if we saw it?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Gillian Rhodes  and
Michael L. Kalish
Gillian Rhodes
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth WA 6907, Australiagill@psy.uwa.edu.au www.psy.uwa.edu.au/
Michael L. Kalish
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth WA 6907, Australiagill@psy.uwa.edu.au www.psy.uwa.edu.au/
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Abstract

How can the impenetrability hypothesis be empirically tested? We comment on the role of signal detection measures, suggesting that context effects on discriminations for which post-perceptual cues are irrelevant, or on neural activity associated with early vision, would challenge impenetrability. We also note the great computational power of the proposed pre-perceptual attention processes and consider the implications for testability of the theory.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 390 - 391
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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