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Perception and information processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Angus Gellatly
Angus Gellatly
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, [email protected]
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Abstract

Perception and cognition can be understood either as conscious experience, thought, and behaviour or as bodily functions executed at the level of information processing. Whether or not they are cognitively penetrable depends on the level referred to. Selective attention is the mechanism by which cognition affects perception, theory influences observation and observational reports, culture biases experience, and current knowledge determines what inferences are made. Seeing must be distinguished from seeing as.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 377 - 378
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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