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Perceptual systems: Five+, one, or many?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Nigel J.T. Thomas
Nigel J.T. Thomas
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 90032 n.j.thomas70@members.leeds.ac.uk www.members.leeds.ac.uk/n.j.thomas70/
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Abstract

The target article's value lies not in its defence of specification, or the “global array” concept, but in its challenge to the paradigm of 5+ senses, and its examples of multiple receptor types cooperatively participating in specific pick-up tasks. Rather than analysing our perceptual endowment into 5+ senses, it is more revealing to type perceptual systems according to task.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 241 - 242
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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