No bridge over the stream of consciousness
Behavioral and Brain Sciences December 1, 1998 DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x98281751 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Commentary Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that filling-in is not required for a neural bridge locus isomorphic to visual consciousness, and that while some completion phenomena may be crucial for normal vision, others are too slow to contribute to it. |
Abstract
Pessoa et al.'s target article shows that although filling-in of various kinds does appear to occur in the brain, it is not required in order to furnish a “bridge locus” where neural events are “isomorphic” to the features of visual consciousness. Some recently uncovered completion phenomena may well play a crucial role in the elaboration of normal visual experience, but others occur too slowly to contribute to normal visual content.