Perception and Iconic Memory: What Sperling Doesn't Show
Mind & Language September 1, 2011 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2011.01422.x (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Citations | 176 |
| Key points | Argues that Sperling's data, interpreted as cue-sensitive experience, do not support phenomenology overflowing cognitive access, and that change-detection paradigms, though different, also fail to establish such claims. |
Abstract
Philosophers have lately seized upon Sperling's partial report technique and subsequent work on iconic memory in support of controversial claims about perceptual experience, in particular that phenomenology overflows cognitive access. Drawing on mounting evidence concerning postdictive perception, I offer an interpretation of Sperling's data in terms of cue-sensitive experience which fails to support any such claims. Arguments for overflow based on change-detection paradigms (e.g. Landman et al., 2003; Sligte et al., 2008) cannot be blocked in this way. However, such paradigms are fundamentally different from Sperling's and, for rather different reasons, equally fail to establish controversial claims about perceptual experience.
Citations in the library
Cited by 39
- Rich conscious perception outside focal attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences September 1, 2014
- The methodological puzzle of phenomenal consciousness. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences September 19, 2018
- Consciousness matters: phenomenal experience has functional value. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2022
- No iconic memory without attention. Consciousness and Cognition February 1, 2016
- Consciousness operationalized, a debate realigned. Consciousness and Cognition October 1, 2017
and 34 more in the library
Cites 7
- On a confusion about a function of consciousness Behavioral and Brain Sciences June 1, 1995
- Consciousness, accessibility, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences December 1, 2007
- Stream of Consciousness November 1, 2002
- Phenomenal Externalism or If Meanings Ain't in the Head, Where Are Qualia? Philosophical Issues 1996
- Consciousness and Cognitive Access Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society October 1, 2008
and 2 more in the library