AbstractIn this letter we focus on the cognitive science of consciousness. The general message is that, while this interdisciplinary area has made much progress in recent years, there is a tendency of downplaying conceptual issues, and therefore underestimating the difficulties of various problems. We briefly focus on a few prominent examples only, due to the space limit, but the general...
The work of Bruce Bridgeman touches on a wide range of topics that include masking, saccadic suppression, microsaccades, space constancy, perception, action, and consciousness. In this tribute, I try to introduce some of Bruce's work, while adding some personal stories. I hope this tribute would serve as a pointer for the readership to more of Bruce's pioneering work.
Perception is interpreted as a set of capabilities that facilitate two functions necessary for survival; learning about the environment and controlling real-time behavioral interactions with it. Perceptual capabilities evolve in the context of an organism and its environment, adapted to an organism's ecological niche. The relation between embodied perception and action can be studied in the...