Chifumi Sakata

Comparing color qualia structures through a similarity task in young children versus adults.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences March 18, 2025 Yusuke Moriguchi, Ryoichi Watanabe, Chifumi Sakata et al. 13 citations

Examination of the subjective qualitative aspects of an experience, or "qualia" in short, is a fundamental and core aspect of consciousness research. How can we characterize the particular quality of redness, i.e. a red quale? Based on a recent proposal of the structural characterization of qualia, which did not rely on verbal descriptions, we developed a task that obtained pairwise similarity...