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Perceptual systems: Five+, one, or many?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

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/

Abstract

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

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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