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Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for “top-down” effects
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What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level cognition, a tidal wave of recent research alleges that states such as beliefs, desires, emotions, motivations, intentions, and linguistic representations exert direct, top-down influences on what we see. There is a growing consensus that such effects are ubiquitous, and that the distinction between perception and cognition may itself be unsustainable. We argue otherwise: None of these hundreds of studies – either individually or collectively – provides compelling evidence for true top-down effects on perception, or “cognitive penetrability.” In particular, and despite their variety, we suggest that these studies all fall prey to only a handful of pitfalls. And whereas abstract theoretical challenges have failed to resolve this debate in the past, our presentation of these pitfalls is empirically anchored: In each case, we show not only how certain studies could be susceptible to the pitfall (in principle), but also how several alleged top-down effects actually are explained by the pitfall (in practice). Moreover, these pitfalls are perfectly general, with each applying to dozens of other top-down effects. We conclude by extracting the lessons provided by these pitfalls into a checklist that future work could use to convincingly demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception. The discovery of substantive top-down effects of cognition on perception would revolutionize our understanding of how the mind is organized; but without addressing these pitfalls, no such empirical report will license such exciting conclusions.
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Firestone and Scholl argue that none of the hundreds of reported "top-down" effects of cognition on visual perception provides compelling evidence for genuine cognitive penetrability, because the studies collectively fall prey to a small set of methodological pitfalls. They present six such pitfalls, each anchored in empirical case studies, and offer a checklist for future work.
Key findings
- The authors count "more than 175 papers published since 1995" reporting top-down effects on perception, with a median publication year of 2010 for the empirical papers cited in their review of contemporary effects.
- They identify six pitfalls: (1) an overly confirmatory research strategy (the "El Greco fallacy"), (2) conflating perception with judgment, (3) demand and response bias, (4) low-level stimulus differences, (5) peripheral attentional effects, and (6) memory and recognition.
- In their own replications, effects survived when they should have canceled out if truly perceptual: subjects still picked a darker grayscale patch to match a room after reflecting on an unethical action (Firestone & Scholl 2014b, Experiment 5), and still reported narrower apertures when responding with an aperture (Experiment 2).
- The "moral pop-out effect" replicated with trivial categories: fashion-related words (e.g., "robe," "slippers") and transportation-related words (e.g., "car," "passenger") were more accurately identified than unrelated words, suggesting semantic relatedness/memory rather than morality drives the effect.
- Blurring race-diagnostic information from face stimuli (Firestone & Scholl 2015a) left the lightness difference intact even among observers who judged the faces to be the same race, implicating low-level visual features.
Methods
- Design: a theoretical review and critique, combining conceptual argument with "empirically anchored" case studies that re-test prominent alleged top-down effects.
- Data/sample: the published literature on top-down effects (New Look era through recent work), plus the authors' own replication experiments (e.g., Firestone & Scholl 2014b, 2015a, 2015b).
- Analysis: for each pitfall, the authors show in principle how studies could be susceptible and in practice how specific reported effects are explained by the pitfall, then extract lessons for future research into a six-item checklist.
Limitations
- The authors state that Pitfall 5 (peripheral attentional effects) "is not on the sort of firm empirical footing enjoyed by the other pitfalls," having fewer case studies.
- They acknowledge their claim is "ambitious" given hundreds of reported effects, and note that their presentation covers only effects they "had space to discuss, out of a much larger pool."
- They concede that not all attentional effects need be peripheral, and that attention may interact with perception in "rich and nuanced ways" — a caveat the accompanying commentaries (e.g., Clark, de Haas et al., Lupyan) argue undermines the breadth of the thesis.
- Evident from the text: the paper is a critique rather than new primary data across the full literature, and several of its deflationary explanations rest on the authors' own replication studies rather than independent replication.
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“We replicated this effect with one small change: Instead of a numerical scale, subjects used a scale of actual grayscale patches to rate the room's brightness.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.1. Case studies.
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“the vast majority of reported top-down effects on perception involve only the first sort of test: a hypothesis is proffered that some higher-level state affects what we see, and then such an effect is observed.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1. Pitfall 1: An overly confirmatory research strategy
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“In later experiments, we determined the true, nonperceptual, explanation for this effect, involving task demands; see Pitfall 3.”
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“the follow-up study succeeded: subjects still picked a darker patch to match the room after reflecting on an unethical action (Firestone & Scholl 2014b, Experiment 5).”
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“Many alleged top-down effects on perception seem explicable by appeal to these sorts of routine judgments.”
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“The studies that fail to test such predictions are too numerous to count; essentially, nearly every study falls into this category.”
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“One especially telling pattern of results is that many of these effects are found even when no visual stimuli are used at all.”
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“Perhaps no pitfall is as generally applicable as demand and response bias, especially for studies relying entirely on observer reports.”
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“the demonstration of race-based lightness distortions (Levin & Banaji 2006) is exceptional, insofar as it is one of the only such demos in this large literature.”
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“many other topdown effects involve manipulations of the stimuli used across experimental conditions.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4. Pitfall 4: Low-level differences (and amazing demonstrations!)
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“we replicated this study with blurred versions of the face stimuli, so as to eliminate race information while preserving many low-level differences in the images (including the match in average luminance and contrast)as in Figure 3B (Firestone & Scholl 2015a).”
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“even those observers who asserted that the faces had the same race nevertheless judged the blurry image derived from the Black face to be darker than the blurry image derived from the White face.”
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“it strikes us as an awkward fact that so few such effects can actually be experienced for oneself.”
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“Many other effects that initially seemed to reflect highlevel factors have been shown to reflect lower-level visual differences across conditions.”
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“As you may experience in Figure 3A, the Black face truly looks darker than the luminance-matched White face.”
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“The effect replicated even with this trivial, arbitrary category: Fashion-related words were more accurately identified than non-fashion-related words (see Fig. 4B).”
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“We previously reported that moral words were more frequently detected than nonmoral words (matched for length and frequency), only when presented at the threshold for perceptual awareness (termed the moral pop-out effect, Gantman & Van Bavel 2014;2015).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Gantman & Van Bavel 2014
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“It is dependent on the observer's internal states induced by motor actions unrelated to targets to be detected”
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“It is independent of memory in the sense that the detection of subtle signs of happiness or anger in unfamiliar faces likely involves a general perceptual ability, independent of episodic memories of specific individuals.”
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“It is independent of peripheral attention; the performance improvement produced by uncomfortable actions, inducing high arousal, is selective (i.e., they improve anger, not happiness, detection)”
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“the detection threshold for anger (in a different group of observers, to control for carryover effects) decreased about 7.4% after a sequence of congruent-uncomfortable than incongruent-comfortable reaches (p = 0.003)”
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“It is operationalized by shifts of performance-based measures (d′, absolute threshold, just noticeable difference) consistent over different paradigms (identification and detection)”
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“The moral pop-out effect occurred over and above measured differences in valence, arousal, or extremity.”
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“Respecting all constraints proposed by Firestone & Scholl (F&S), we have shown that perceived facial expressions of emotion depend on the congruency between bodily action (comfort/discomfort) and target emotion (happiness/anger) valence.”
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“the detection threshold for happiness decreased about 2.2% after a sequence of congruent-comfortable than incongruent-uncomfortable reaches (p = 0.001)”
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“Indeed, when we included a forced-choice question that directly asked participants to choose which face was White and which was Black, we repeatedly observed that 75%-80% of participants correctly assigned race.”
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“This is why holding visual items in memory causes people to see things differently (e.g., Scocchia et al. 2013).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“Classical feedforward feature-detector models account for only about 40% of the variance in V1 function (Carandini et al. 2005).”
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“But actually, the largest effect of the target-preview was to slow search performance for the meaningful-number condition, bringing it in line with that of the meaningless-shape condition.”
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- Not checked yetcites Klemfuss et al. (2012)
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“Using magnetoencephalography and phase synchrony analyses, these top-down contextual influences are shown to occur during the formation stages of a visual percept, extending all the way back to early visual cortex (Kveraga et al. 2011).”
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“Specifically, in contrast to studies demonstrating that emotional stimuli capture attention to their location, in EIB target perception is worse at the location of the emotional distractor (e.g., Most & Wang 2011).”
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“We found that activity patterns in the ventral temporal cortex and the anterior insular cortex contained the representational geometry of modally bound valence representations belonging to the visual and gustatory systems, respectively.”
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“approximately 60%-80% of V1 responses are attributable to other V1 neurons or nongeniculate inputs (Muckli & Petro 2013).”
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“Only about 5% of the excitatory synaptic input to layer IV of V1 derives from geniculate drive (Douglas & Martin 2007)”
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“In addition to such modality-specific representations, we also found evidence for a population code in orbitofrontal cortex that is shared across events originating from distinct modalities”
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“An fMRI study using dynamic causal modelling later confirmed that M-biased stimuli specifically activated a pathway from the occipital cortex to OFC, which then initiated top-down feedback to the fusiform gyrus.”
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“early activity was evident in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) ∼130 ms after stimulus presentation, well before object recognition-related activity peaks in the ventrotemporal cortex (Bar et al. 2006).”
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“Social cues, including eye gaze, gender, culture, and race are found to directly influence the perception and neural response to facial emotion (Adams & Kleck 2005;Adams et al. 2003;2015)”
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“The fMRI models for the biased (top-down influenced) trials turned out to match the participants' reports of the perceived direction better than they did the actual directions of motion”
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“so that it is almost never clear which mental process a descending pathway is descending to (or if that descending pathway is influencing the input or the processing of whatever it descends to, per sect.2.1).”
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“Other confounding variables were eventually implicated in the original effects, leading several researchers to conclude that”
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- Not checked yetcites Landis et al. 1966
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“In those cases, such terminology (which may otherwise evoke notions of cognitive penetrability) refers to aspects of processing that are wired into the visual module itself (so-called”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.3. Top-down effects versus context effects and "unconscious inferences" in vision
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“However, the New Look movement's momentum eventually stalled as its findings buckled under methodological and theoretical scrutiny.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 3. Contemporary top-down effects
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- Not checked yetcites Carter & Schooler 1949
- Not checked yetcites Landis et al. 1966
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“We argue otherwise: None of these hundreds of studieseither individually or collectivelyprovides compelling evidence for true top-down effects on perception, or”
- Also stated in: § 1.2. Our thesis and approach · plain
“Against this wealth of evidence and its associated consensus, the thesis of this paper is that there is in fact no evidence for such top-down effects of cognition on visual perception, in every sense these claims intend.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Abstract
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“the underlying processes continue to operate reflexively (based solely on their visual input) regardless of your cognitive inferences or problem-solving strategies”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.3. Top-down effects versus context effects and "unconscious inferences" in vision
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- Not checked yetcites Scholl & Gao 2013
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“facial expressions associated with fear (e.g., widened eyes) and disgust (e.g., narrowed eyes) have recently been shown to reliably vary the eye-aperture diameter, directly influencing acuity and sensitivity by altering the actual optical information reaching perceptual processing (Lee et al. 2014).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.1. Changing the processing versus (merely) changing the input
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- Not checked yetcites Lee et al. 2014
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“this type of”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.2. Descending neural pathways
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“In each case, we show not only how certain studies could be susceptible to the pitfall (in principle), but also how several alleged top-down effects actually are explained by the pitfall (in practice).”
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“These are not idle suspicions about potential causes of such effects, but rather they are empirically groundednot just in the weak sense that they discuss relevant empirical evidence, but in the stronger sense that they have demonstrably explained several of the most prominent apparent topdown effects on perception, in practice.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Abstract
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“Notice, for example, that the vast majority of models in vision science do not consider such factors; yet, apparently, such models have been successful!”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 1.1. The new top-down challenge
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- Not checked yetcites Rust et al. 2006
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“Moreover, these pitfalls are perfectly general, with each applying to dozens of other top-down effects.”
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“Moreover, each pitfall we present is perfectly general, applying to dozens more reported top-down effects.”
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“Beyond our concrete case studies, we also aim to show that the pitfalls are broadly applicable, with each covering dozens more top-down effects.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Abstract
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“there is now considerable evidence that brain regions that were initially considered”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.2. Descending neural pathways
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- Not checked yetcites Gilbert & Li 2013
- Not checked yetcites Rolls 2008
- Not checked yetcites Zhang et al. 2014
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“For example, follow-up studies on the value-based size-distortion effects could replicate them only when subjects made judgments from memory rather than during online viewing (Carter & Schooler 1949; see also Landis et al. 1966)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 3. Contemporary top-down effects
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- Not checked yetcites Carter & Schooler 1949
- Not checked yetcites Landis et al. 1966
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“One reason is that nearly all brain regions subserve multiple functions.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.2. Descending neural pathways
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“we mean to defend an extremely broad thesis regarding the sorts of states that cannot affect perception, and this most definitely includes action.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 3.2. Action
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“as when lightness illusions based on”
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“We exploited the El Greco fallacy to show that multiple alleged top-down effects cannot genuinely be effects on perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.1. Case studies.
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“Despite encapsulation, input may sometimes change visual processing by increasing sensitivity over time to certain visual features.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.5. Input-driven changes in sensitivity over time
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“If El Greco had truly experienced a stretchedout world, then he would also have experienced an equally stretched-out canvas, canceling out the supposed real-world distortions and thus leaving no trace of them in his reproductions.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Anstis 2002
- Not checked yetcites Firestone 2013b
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“Therefore, this effect cannot reflect a true perceptual distortionnot because the effect fails to occur, but rather because it occurs even when it shouldn't.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.1. Case studies.
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“For example, such crossmodal integration is itself a reflexive, apparently impenetrable process: The sounds' effects occur”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.4. Cross-modal effects
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- Not checked yetcites Shams et al. 2002
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“For example, figure-ground assignment for ambiguous stimuli is sometimes biased by experience: The visual system will more likely assign figure to familiar shapes, such as the profile of a woman with a skirt (Peterson & Gibson 1993; Fig. 2A).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.5. Input-driven changes in sensitivity over time
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- Not checked yetcites Peterson & Gibson 1993
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“Thus, such effects aren't”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.5. Input-driven changes in sensitivity over time
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“Therefore, what may superficially appear to be an influence of knowledge on perception is simply increased sensitivity to certain contours.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.5. Input-driven changes in sensitivity over time
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“Collectively, such results are consistent with the entire process being contained within perception itself, rather than being an effect of more central cognitive processes on perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.4. Cross-modal effects
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“The distortions in El Greco's paintings, then, could not reflect literal perceptual distortions”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.1. Case studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Anstis 2002
- Not checked yetcites Firestone 2013b
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“This effect, thenlike the distortions in El Greco's workmust not reflect the way the world actually looked to subjects.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.1. Case studies.
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“For example, inversion eliminates this effect even when subjects know the inverted shape's identity (Peterson & Gibson 1994).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.5. Input-driven changes in sensitivity over time
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- Not checked yetcites Peterson & Gibson 1994
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“The El Greco fallacy may also afflict reports that linguistic color categories alter color appearance (Webster & Kay 2012).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Webster & Kay 2012
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“after repeatedly viewing one set of red and violet letters and a second set of blue and violet numbers, subjects judged token violet letters to look redder than they truly were and token violet numbers to look bluer than they truly were (Goldstone 1995; Fig. 2J).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Goldstone 1995
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“If color terms affect perceived color, then such effects should already have been assimilated into the color space, leaving no room for color terms to exert their influence in studies using such color spaces.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
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“Clearly such effects must reflect judgment and not perception”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.2. Other susceptible studies.
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“However, the adjusted stimulus was a copy of that symbol!”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Goldstone 1995
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In the paper
“yet their resemblance to other cases that are indeed claimed as top-down effects on perception suggests that many such cases could reflect judgmental processes after all.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.2. Other susceptible studies.
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“such studies use color spaces specifically constructed for perceptual uniformity, such that each step through the space's parameters is perceived as equal in magnitude.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Webster & Kay 2012
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“any time an experiment shifts perceptual reports, it is possible that the shift reflects changes in judgment rather than perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2. Pitfall 2: Perception versus judgment
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“those same factors have been shown to affect the estimated distance of completely unseen (and sometimes merely imagined) locations such as Coney Island (Alter & Balcetis 2011) or one's work office (Wakslak & Kim 2015).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.2. Other susceptible studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Alter & Balcetis 2011
- Not checked yetcites Wakslak & Kim 2015
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“That such an effect was nevertheless obtained suggests it cannot be perceptual.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
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“This commits the El Greco fallacy: if Es really look redder after one sees other red letters, then both the to-be-matched E and the adjustable E should have looked redder, and the effects should have canceled one another out.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
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“suggesting that the original results reflected what subjects thought about the distance rather than how the distance truly looked to them.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.1. Case studies.
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“another study also demonstrated an effect of dart-throwing performance on size judgmentsbut found that the effect disappeared when subjects made their throws while hanging onto a rock-climbing wall 12 feet above the ground (Cañal-Bruland et al. 2010).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.2. Other susceptible studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Cañal-Bruland et al. 2010
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“That these studies still show labeling effects suggests an alternative explanation.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
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“the finding could easily be recast as an effect on judgment instead: Subjects who performed poorly while clinging to the rock-climbing wall had an obvious explanation for performing poorly and so had no need to explain their misses by inflating target-size estimates.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.2. Other susceptible studies.
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“it seems just as plausible that the subjects were simply following convention, assigning the yellow-orange discs the socially appropriate names for that context.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.2. Other susceptible studies.
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In the paper
“When backpack-wearing subjects were given a compelling (but false) cover story to justify the backpack's purpose (to hold heavy monitoring equipment during climbing), the effect of heavy backpacks on slant estimation completely disappeared (Durgin et al. 2009; see also Durgin et al. 2012).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Durgin et al. 2009
- Not checked yetcites Durgin et al. 2012
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“the social nature of psychology experiments can readily lead to reports (of anything, including percepts) being contaminated by task demands, wherein certain features of experiments lead subjects to adjust their responses (either consciously or unconsciously) in accordance with their assumptions about the experiment's purpose (or the experimenters' desires).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3. Pitfall 3: Demand and response bias
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Rosenthal & Rubin 1978
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“one difficulty in manipulating stimuli across experimental conditions is the possibility that the intended top-down manipulation (e.g., the evoked arousal) is confounded with changes in the low-level visual features of the stimuli (e.g., as live tarantulas might differ in size, color, and motion from plush toys)and that those low-level differences might actually be responsible for perceptual”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4. Pitfall 4: Low-level differences (and amazing demonstrations!)
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“no effect of required climbing effort is found without a transparent manipulationsuch as when subjects estimate the slant of either an (effortful) staircase or an (effort-free) escalator in a between-subjects design (Shaffer & Flint 2011).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Shaffer & Flint 2011
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“Contamination by demand characteristics seems especially likely in experiments involving a single conspicuous manipulation and a single perceptual report.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3. Pitfall 3: Demand and response bias
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“Consider the effect of wearing a heavy backpack on slant estimates (Bhalla & Proffitt 1999; Fig. 2D).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Bhalla & Proffitt 1999
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“And note that such results are unlikely to reflect unconscious race categorization; it would be a distinctively odd implicit race judgment that could influence explicit lightness judgments but not explicit race judgments.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
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“(Coren and Enns are quite sensitive to this concern, but their followup experiments still involve important geometric differences of this sort.)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.2. Other susceptible studies.
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In the paper
“It is our view that no alleged top-down effect of cognition on perception has so far successfully met the challenges collectively embodied by the pitfalls we have reviewed.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 5.2. A checklist for future work
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In the paper
“even though the reported effect magnitudes far exceed established discrimination thresholds (e.g., Hansen et al. 2008;Krauskopf & Gegenfurtner 1992).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Hansen et al. 2008
- Not checked yetcites Krauskopf & Gegenfurtner 1992
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“We have been arguing that there are no top-down effects of cognition on perception, in the strong and revolutionary sense wherein such effects violate informational encapsulation or cognitive impenetrability and so threaten the view of the visual system as a functionally independent (modular) part of the mind.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5. Pitfall 5: Peripheral attentional effects
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In the paper
“This result effectively shows how the lightness difference can derive from low-level visual featureswhich, critically, are present in the original imageswithout any contribution from perceived race.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
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In the paper
“we conclude that the initial demonstration of Levin and Banaji (2006) provides no evidence for a top-down effect on perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Levin & Banaji 2006
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In the paper
“Or, in a very different case, studies of how fear may affect spatial perception often involve stimuli with very different properties (e.g., a live tarantula vs. a plush toy; Harber et al. 2011), or even the same stimulus viewed from very different perspectives (e.g., a precarious balcony viewed from above or below; Stefanucci & Proffitt 2009).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.2. Other susceptible studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Harber et al. 2011
- Not checked yetcites Stefanucci & Proffitt 2009
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In the paper
“Until this high bar is met, it will remain eminently plausible that there are no top-down effects of cognition on perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 5.2. A checklist for future work
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In the paper
“Though the face stimuli were matched for mean luminance, there are of course many visual cues to lightness that are independent of mean luminance.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
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In the paper
“However, we have now seen that only a small handful of pitfalls can deflate many reported top-down effects on perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 5. Discussion and conclusion
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“Other investigations of top-down effects on size contrast also manipulate low-level properties, for example contrasting natural scenes with different distributions of color and complexity (e.g., van Ulzen et al. 2008).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.2. Other susceptible studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites van Ulzen et al. 2008
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In the paper
“However, our contention in this pitfall is that the merely peripheral sorts of attentioninvolving simple changes in which locations, features, or objects we focus oncan account for a wide variety of apparent top-down effects on perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5. Pitfall 5: Peripheral attentional effects
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In the paper
“The possibility of such low-level confounds is a potential issue, almost by definition, with any top-down effect that varies stimuli across conditions.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.2. Other susceptible studies.
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“the same researchers discovered systematic low-level differences in their stimuliwherein the animals (e.g., snakes, fish) had more curvature than the artifacts (e.g., chairs, briefcases)which sufficiently explained the search benefits (as revealed by follow-up experiments directly exploring curvature).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Levin et al. 2001
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In the paper
“Crucially, such semantic priming would not be a topdown effect on perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.6. Pitfall 6: Memory and recognition
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In the paper
“However, follow-up studies suggest that the mere deployment of attention may be the mediator of these effects.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Cañal-Bruland et al. 2011
- Not checked yetcites Gray & Cañal-Bruland, 2015
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“Moreover, the well-documented effects of action-planning on spatial judgments (e.g., Kirsch & Kunde 2013a; 2013b)also arise from the deployment of visual attention alone, even in the absence of motor planning (Kirsch 2015).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Kirsch 2015
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“However, by its nature, recognition necessarily involves not only visual processing per se, but also memory: To recognize something, the mind must determine whether a given visual stimulus matches some stored representation in memory.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.6. Pitfall 6: Memory and recognition
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In the paper
“Top-down effects on perception are meant to be effects on what we see, but many such studies instead report effects on how we recognize various stimuli.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.6. Pitfall 6: Memory and recognition
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Lupyan & Spivey 2008
- Not checked yetcites Gantman & Van Bavel 2014
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In the paper
“Many top-down effects involve visual recognition and so may be susceptible to this pitfall.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.6. Pitfall 6: Memory and recognition
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In the paper
“Most immediately, many recently reported top-down effects on perception use ambiguous figures but do not rule out relevant attention mechanisms.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5.2. Other susceptible studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Prinz & Seidel 2012
- Not checked yetcites Balcetis & Dunning 2006
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In the paper
“However, several later studies showed that such voluntary switches from one interpretation to another are occasioned by exactly the sorts of processes that uncontroversially do not demonstrate top-down penetration of perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5.1. Case studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Peterson & Gibson 1991
- Not checked yetcites Toppino 2003
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In the paper
“Perhaps most prominently, shifting patterns of attention can change what we see.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5. Pitfall 5: Peripheral attentional effects
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In the paper
“Put differently, such attentional (or light-turning-off) effects may be occasioned by a relevant intention or belief, but they are not sensitive to the content of that intention or belief.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5. Pitfall 5: Peripheral attentional effects
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In the paper
“because they observed the effects even when reporting the lightness of a face using a copy of that exact face”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Levin and Banaji (2006)
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“Evidence exists that regions of the medial temporal lobe are indeed crucial for perceptual as well as memory tasks (e.g., the perirhinal cortex; Graham et al. 2010).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Graham et al. 2010
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“and the El Greco fallacy (as in Pitfall 1, because they observed the effects even when reporting the lightness of a face using a copy of that exact face)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Levin and Banaji (2006)
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In the paper
“therefore, inferring that activity in this area is nonperceptual and related to the creation of memory or knowledge about the environment is well substantiated.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Rests on an assumption: The hippocampus is one of the few regions of the brain that has not been found to subserve multiple functions, despite intense study for decades.
In the paper
“However, this work stops short of finding perceptual effects for the hippocampus proper, the region that differentiates Perceivers and Non-Perceivers.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Graham et al. 2010
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In the paper
“and has no difference in task demands (Pitfall 3).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Emberson and Amso (2012)
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“But if color category labels truly shape perception in this way, then they should have first shaped the color spaces themselves, leaving no work left for such labels to do upon presentation of the laboratory stimuli using those color spaces.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Collins & Olson 2014
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In the paper
“It does not have low-level stimulus differences to account for (Pitfall 4)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Emberson and Amso (2012)
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In the paper
“(Lupyan & Ward [2013] attempted to guard against semantic priming by claiming that semantic information is not extracted during continuous flash suppression, but recent work now demonstrates that this is not the case; e.g., Sklar et al. 2012.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.6.3. A lesson for future research.
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- Not checked yetcites Sklar et al. 2012
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In the paper
“is not subject to the El Greco fallacy (Pitfall 1)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Emberson and Amso (2012)
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In the paper
“For simpler auditory (Recanzone et al. 1993) and visual (Jehee et al. 2012) discriminations, even earlier primary sensory cortical loci have been implicated in perceptual learning.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Recanzone et al. 1993
- Not checked yetcites Jehee et al. 2012
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In the paper
“Neurophysiologically, when a particular cortical area for vision projects to a higher level, there are typically recurrent connections from that higher level back to the cortical area.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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In the paper
“The learning of these complex visual features ought to be considered perceptual, rather than generically associative, based both on its neural locus in IT brain regions specialized for visual shape representation (Logothetis et al. 1995) and on behavioral evidence indicating perceptual constraints on the acquisition of these features (Goldstone 2000).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Logothetis et al. 1995
- Not checked yetcites Goldstone 2000
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In the paper
“For both simple and complex perceptual learning, attention and perception are inextricably intertwined.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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In the paper
“For example, saturation and brightness are aspects of color that most people have difficulty separating.It is hard for people to classify objects on the basis of saturation while ignoring brightness differences (Burns & Shepp 1988).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Burns & Shepp 1988
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In the paper
“Attention can be effectively deployed to subtle, simple discriminations and complex configurations only because perceptual processes have been adapted to fit task demands.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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In the paper
“Given the intertwined nature of perception-attention relations such as these, it is appropriate to consider human behavior on perceptual tasks to be a product of an integrated perception-attention system.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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“For example, participants were never randomly assigned to experiments.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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“For example, the efficiency of search for conjunctions of visual parts gradually increases over the course of hours of training (Shiffrin & Lightfoot 1997).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Shiffrin & Lightfoot 1997
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“Yet, there is good reason to believe these similar behavioral effects (moral vs. fashion/transportation word detection) arise by different processes even at the semantic level.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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“Treating feature-driven attention as distinct in kind from object or location-driven attention is equally problematic, because the apparent mechanisms underlying these processes are quite similar, and the impacts are entirely analogous.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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“Thus, the nature and organization of this fuzzy top-down information rule out any direct, spatially accurate influence.”
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“Conscious perception of space is manifested first and foremost in the detailed, high-resolution, topographically precise depiction of spatial elements.”
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“Note that it is only the acute image, small or large, tilted or not, bright or dark, that is consciously perceived.”
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“Cognitive inputs, which originate, presumably, in nonvisual areas, go through multisynaptic, multiarea paths before reaching V1.”
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“Even more important, the route into the visual cortex goes through the large RF cells of the IT cortex.”
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“Clearly, such cells cannot represent the fine spatial details that we are so sensitive to.”
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“Elsewhere, I show (Gur 2015) that because V1 is the only visual area that represents space at a resolution and topographical exactitude that is compatible with our perceptual abilities, its preintegration response patterns (”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Gur 2015
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“We are consciously aware of visual objects together with the minute details that characterize each object.”
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“The brain is not reflexively “stimulus driven.””
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Barbas, 2015
- Not checked yetcites Chanes & Barrett, 2016
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“That is unlikely because of the detailed parallel V1 organization and the nature of top-down connections, which can influence only large parts of the visual field.”
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“The notion of cognitive penetration into perception is extraordinary because, as I show below, no feasible physical route exists for such a penetration.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“Such connectivity rules out any direct, spatially circumscribed influence over V1 upper layers' cells representing the objects' details (Gur 2015;Gur et al. 2005).”
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- Not checked yetcites Gur 2015
- Not checked yetcites Gur et al. 2005
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“All of the processes, from V1 preintegration activity patterns onward, that extract spatial global information are not perceived.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“For cognition to penetrate perception, it needs to affect V1 image representation.”
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“However, top-down inputs to V1 do not match its topographic accuracy.”
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“The brain is context-dependent.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Clark 2013 source
- Not checked yetcites Friston 2010
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“V1 is the only visual area with spatial resolution and topographical exactitude matching perceptual abilities.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Gur 2015
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“Indeed, it is our perception of details that enables us to discriminate between facesin spite of their inherent similarity.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“The brain is not modular.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Marder 2012
- Not checked yetcites Sporns 2011
- Not checked yetcites van den Heuvel & Sporns 2013
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“Feedback from such cells, which are not sensitive to small spatial details, makes it impossible for top-down input to influence a selective part of the visual scenesuch as a stroke on a Chinese character or an image of a dog surrounded by shoes (Fig. 2 of the target article).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“In conclusion, it is clear that top-down processes can affect perception in a variety of ways.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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“Context shapes Bayesian “priors” that inform the brain's sensory predictions”
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- Not checked yetcites Clark 2013 source
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“Crucially, both examples avoid all six of the potential confounds that Firestone & Scholl (F&S) raised as arguments against previous studies claiming to demonstrate the influence of top-down effects on perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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“it is well known that requirements for action strongly shape moment-to-moment processing”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Cisek & Klaska 2010
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“Consequently, the failure to disentangle perception from judgment is not a pitfall of flawed studies, but rather an acknowledgment that there is no clear division between the two.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Andreas Keller
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“The BOLD (blood-oxygen-level dependent) fMRI activation caused by mental imagery is so similar to that generated by observed visual stimuli that a model based on tuning to low-level visual features (e.g., spatial frequency and orientation) that was trained on the BOLD fMRI activity generated when participants observed real images was able to determine which of those images the participants were”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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- Not checked yetcites Naselaris et al. 2015
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“Requirements for action (dictated by the task context) exert a top-down influence on the processing of visual information.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“Olfaction is a judgmental sense in which perceiving and judging are intertwined.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Andreas Keller
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“One of the core properties of higher cognition and not perception is the assignment to slots in a relational structure.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Halford et al. 2010
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“There are fundamental and well-established differences between cognition and perception independent of cognitive penetrability.”
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“Failing to distinguish between perception and judgment is therefore not a flaw in investigating top-down effects of cognition on perception, as the authors suggest.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Andreas Keller
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“The prime example of a modality in which it is impossible to disentangle the two is olfaction.”
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“We argue that Firestone & Scholl (F&S) provide worthwhile recommendations but that their critique of research by Levin and Banaji (2006) is unfounded.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Cognition can affect perception: Restating the evidence of a top-down effect
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- Not checked yetcites Levin and Banaji (2006)
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“what is not in dispute is that by 7 years of age, the functionality of human visual perception is indistinguishable from that of an adult.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“In addition, the hallucinations will often interact with the participant's visual perception of the external world.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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“That such a distinction is clear, or even existent, is less obvious in nonvisual modalities.”
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“Both hallucinations and mental imagery activate the visual cortex in a way very similar to that of normal visual perception, which helps explain why people describe hallucinations and mental imagery as true perceptual experiences.”
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“Mental imagery (i.e., visualisation) is a further example of topdown cognition obviously affecting perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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“Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate that topdown cognitive and emotional processes can affect perception in a manner that avoids all six of the potential confounds F&S raise.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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“Such drug-induced hallucinations are further demonstrations of top-down effects on perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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“Vision is largely a top-down affair”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Gilbert & Li 2013
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“The development of higher-order cognitive functions exhibits a much slower time course than the development of visual perception.”
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“Evidence that the brain is active, not merely reactive, undermines the idea that perception is a bottom-up reflex isolated from cognition.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“However, we also know from many decades of research that perception integrates sensory input with reliable world-knowledge.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Cognition can affect perception: Restating the evidence of a top-down effect
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“Hearing a word affects the earliest stages of visual processing (Boutonnet & Lupyan 2015; see also Landau et al. 2010;Pelekanos & Moutoussis 2011).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Boutonnet & Lupyan 2015
- Not checked yetcites Landau et al. 2010
- Not checked yetcites Pelekanos & Moutoussis 2011
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“Meaningfulnessa putatively late processaffects putatively earlier processes such as shape discrimination (Lupyan & Spivey 2008;Lupyan et al. 2010) and recovery of 3-D volumes from two-dimensional images (Moore & Cavanagh 1998).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Lupyan & Spivey 2008
- Not checked yetcites Lupyan et al. 2010
- Not checked yetcites Moore & Cavanagh 1998
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“knowledge of real-world size affects perceived speed of motion (Martín et al. 2015)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Martín et al. 2015
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“expectations of motion affect motion perception (Sterzer et al. 2008)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Sterzer et al. 2008
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“F&S's thesis is wrong.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“In so doing, attention warps the visual representations (e.g., Çukur et al. 2013; sect.5.2 in Lupyan 2015a for discussion).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Çukur et al. 2013
- Not checked yetcites Lupyan 2015a
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“Aside from the simplest confounds in spatial attention, attentional effects are not an alternative to top-down effects on perception, but rather one of the mechanisms by which higher-level knowledge affects lower-level perceptual processes (Lupyan & Clark 2015).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Lupyan & Clark 2015
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“For example, knowledge of surface hardness affects amodal completion (Vrins et al. 2009)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Vrins et al. 2009
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“Perception is richly and interestingly influenced by cognition.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“These additional experiments cast serious doubt on F&S's conclusion “that the initial demonstration of Levin and Banaji (2006) provides no evidence for a top-down effect on perception” (sect 4.4.1, para.5; emphasis added).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Cognition can affect perception: Restating the evidence of a top-down effect
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- Not checked yetcites Levin and Banaji (2006)
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“Like attention, memory is part of the mechanism by which knowledge affects perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“But, although F&S are correct that some published work on top-down effects suffers from confounds, their sweeping claim that there are no top-down effects on perception is premised on incorrect assumptions.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“But many others are well-controlled investigations using gold-standard psychophysical methods.”
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“knowledge of bodies affects perceiving depth from binocular disparity (Bulthoff et al. 1998)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Bulthoff et al. 1998
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“Studies in neuroscience with other forms of attention, however, suggest that a stage of vision, namely late vision, is cognitively penetrated mainly through the effects of cognitively driven spatial and object-centered attention.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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“Although F&S cite a number of opposing authors who agree with this sentiment, we think that it rests on a conflation between two different notions of modularity.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > N O T E
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“Evidence from inattentional blindness and emotion-induced blindness suggests that categorization and emotion shape what we perceive in the first place, not just the qualities that we judge them to have.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“The convergent experimental and ecological evidence we have outlined suggests a visual processing system profoundly influenced by top-down effects.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“But they overstate their case when claiming that evidence for such effects is nonexistent.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“As with inattentional blindness, EIB appears to be a perceptual phenomenon rather than a memorial one.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Kennedy & Most 2012
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“Hence, we see no reason to think that the existence of topdown effects should undermine the distinction between vision and higher-level cognitive systems, either.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > N O T E
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“We argue not only that these results demonstrate the importance of descending neural pathways, which F&S do not dispute (cf.sect.2.2), but also that these recurrent connections penetrate bottom-up perception and facilitate perception via feedback of activated information from the OFC.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“Recent developments in high-resolution tract tracing (Markov & Kennedy 2013) and considerations of electrophysiological timing (Briggs & Usrey 2005) suggest that perception is more properly conceptualized as a dynamically reverberating loop rather than encapsulated bottom-up and top-down streams.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Markov & Kennedy 2013
- Not checked yetcites Briggs & Usrey 2005
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“Inattentional blindness experiments suggest that categorization shapes perception in ways that cannot be attributed to selection for visual input.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“Cognitively driven attention, for example, affects color processing in the human collateral sulcus (the main cortical area for analysis and coding of color information) at about 160 ms (Anllo-Vento et al. 1998).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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- Not checked yetcites Anllo-Vento et al. 1998
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“It should be noted that the various precueing effects that affect early vision processing are not direct but indirect cognitive influences because they do not affect perceptual processing itself but, rather, the preparatory neuronal activity of the perceptual circuits (Raftopoulos 2015).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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- Not checked yetcites Raftopoulos 2015
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“At about 235 ms in primate V1, attention distinguishes target from distractor curves (Roelfsema et al. 1998).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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- Not checked yetcites Roelfsema et al. 1998
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“It is also sensitive to stimulus classification and evaluation (Mangun & Hilyard 1995).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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- Not checked yetcites Mangun & Hilyard 1995
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“Indeed, the median publication year for the empirical papers cited in section 3 is 2010.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 3.4. Categorization and language
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“(As of this writing, we count more than 175 papers published since 1995 reporting such effects; for a list, see http://perception.yale.edu/TopDownPapers.)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 1.1. The new top-down challenge
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“We successfully replicated this result, but we also tested it with one critical difference: Instead of adjusting a measuring tape to record subjects' width estimates, the experimenter used two poles that themselves formed an independent and potentially passable aperture.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.1. Case studies.
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“Many alleged top-down effects on perception live near the border of perception and cognition, where it is not always obvious whether a given cognitive state affects what we see or instead only our inferences or judgments made on the basis of what we see.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2. Pitfall 2: Perception versus judgment
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“we contend that judgment-based alternative explanations for topdown effects have been severely underappreciated in recent work.”
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“Other purported top-down effects that seem similarly explicable include effects on visually estimated weight (Doerrfeld et al. 2012), the estimated looming of spiders (Riskind et al. 1995), and the rated anger in African-American or Arab faces (Maner et al. 2005).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.2. Other susceptible studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Doerrfeld et al. 2012
- Not checked yetcites Riskind et al. 1995
- Not checked yetcites Maner et al. 2005
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“Studies that manipulate stimuli often do acknowledge the possibility of low-level differences (and on occasion actively attempt to control for them).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4. Pitfall 4: Low-level differences (and amazing demonstrations!)
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“The distinction between perception and judgment is intuitive and uncontroversial in principle, but it is striking just how few discussions of top-down effects on perception even mention judgmental effects as possible alternative explanations.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.3. A lesson for future research.
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“similar explanations seem eminently plausible for reported effects of desirability on distance perception (e.g., the estimated distance of feces vs. chocolate; Balcetis & Dunning 2010), of racial identity on faces' perceived lightness (Levin & Banaji 2006), of stereotypes on the identity of weapons and tools (Correll et al. 2015), of tool use on the perceived distance to reachable targets (Witt et”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.2. Other susceptible studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Balcetis & Dunning 2010
- Not checked yetcites Levin & Banaji 2006
- Not checked yetcites Correll et al. 2015
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“Yet, so many studies never even mention the possibility of demand-based effects (including several studies mentioned above, e.g., Mitterer et al. 2009;Prinz & Seidel 2012).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.3. A lesson for future research.
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- Not checked yetcites Mitterer et al. 2009
- Not checked yetcites Prinz & Seidel 2012
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“This is especially frustrating because assessing demand effects is often easy and cost-free.”
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“This finding is today widely regarded as one of the strongest counterexamples to modularity (e.g., Collins & Olson 2014;Macpherson 2012;Vetter & Newen 2014)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Collins & Olson 2014
- Not checked yetcites Macpherson 2012
- Not checked yetcites Vetter & Newen 2014
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“And the Black face has a darker jawline, whereas the White face has darker eyes.”
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“After blurring, the vast majority of observers asserted that the two faces actually had the same race (or were even the same person).”
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“You may notice that many of the top-down effects in Figure 2 are caricatured, e.g., with actual luminance differences for positive vs. negative words and smiling vs. frowning faces.This is because when the effects weren't caricatured in this way, readers could not understand the claimsbecause they could not experience the effect!”
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“Indeed, merely considering our six pitfallsuniquely disconfirmatory predictions, judgment, task demands, low-level differences, peripheral attention, and memorywe have covered at least nine times that many empirical reports of top-down effects (and of course that includes only those top-down effects we had space to discuss, out of a much larger pool).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 5. Discussion and conclusion
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“(For example, the median publication year of the many top-down reports cited in this paperwhich includes New-Look-era reportsis only 2010.)”
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“It occurs even in the absence of response bias shifts, given that the response criterion c did not change significantly across congruency conditions for both happiness and anger detection”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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“Baker and Levin found that participants who correctly distinguished the race of the noninverted faces also were more likely to judge that the Black face was darker.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Cognition can affect perception: Restating the evidence of a top-down effect
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“For example, Lupyan and Spivey (2008) found that instructing participants to view the meaningless symbols and as meaningfulrotated numbers 2 and 5improved visual search efficiency.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Lupyan and Spivey (2008)
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In the paper
“Research conducted in alert animals has long recognized that motivational factors rapidly and profoundly influence neuronal responses at the earliest modality-specific perceptual stages, resulting in increased gain and/or altered tuning curves (McGann 2015).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites McGann 2015
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In the paper
“Findings collected across a range of mammalian species have demonstrated tonotopic map remodeling within primary auditory cortex that optimizes the processing of tones paired with rewards or punishers (Weinberger 2004).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Weinberger 2004
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In the paper
“When an unexpected E traveled across the screen, those tracking the letters were more likely to notice it than those tracking the digits, and this pattern reversed when the unexpected object was its mirror image, a block-letter 3.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Most 2013
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In the paper
“We contend that any apparent top-down effect that falls prey to one or more of these pitfalls would be compromised, in the sense that it could be explained by deflationary, routine, and certainly nonrevolutionary factors.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 3. They are general in scope.
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In the paper
“the existence of crossmodal effects has been conclusively established and is common ground for all parties in this discussion.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.4. Cross-modal effects
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- Not checked yetcites Shams et al. 2000
- Not checked yetcites Sekuler et al. 1997
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In the paper
“Even parts of visual cortex, for example, are involved in imagery (e.g., Kosslyn 2005), recall (e.g., Le Bihan et al. 1993), and reward processing (Vickery et al. 2011)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.2. Descending neural pathways
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- Not checked yetcites Kosslyn 2005
- Not checked yetcites Le Bihan et al. 1993
- Not checked yetcites Vickery et al. 2011
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In the paper
“In particular, and despite their variety, we suggest that these studies all fall prey to only a handful of pitfalls.”
- Also stated in: § 4. The six "pitfalls" of top-down effects on perception · hedged
“We suggest that this research falls prey to a set of”
- Also stated in: § 4. The six "pitfalls" of top-down effects on perception · hedged
“1.They are few in number.We suggest that nearly all of the recent literature on top-down effects is susceptible to a surprisingly small group of such pitfalls.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Abstract
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- Also stated in: § 4. The six "pitfalls" of top-down effects on perception · hedged
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In the paper
“Similarly, such factors are entirely missing from contemporary vision science textbooks (e.g., Blake & Sekuler 2005;Howard & Rogers 2002;Yantis 2013).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 1.1. The new top-down challenge
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- Not checked yetcites Blake & Sekuler 2005
- Not checked yetcites Howard & Rogers 2002
- Not checked yetcites Yantis 2013
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In the paper
“The existence of descending neural pathways has been conclusively established many times over, and they are now firmly part of the orthodoxy in our understanding of neural systems.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.2. Descending neural pathways
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In the paper
“and other critiques identified theoretically puzzling moderating variables or reported that many other valuable objects and symbols failed to produce similar results (e.g., Klein et al. 1951;McCurdy 1956).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 3. Contemporary top-down effects
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- Not checked yetcites Klein et al. 1951
- Not checked yetcites McCurdy 1956
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In the paper
“Closing your eyes (or turning off the lights) changes only the input to perception; it does not change perceptual processing itself.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.1. Changing the processing versus (merely) changing the input
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In the paper
“in our view this strategy essentially misses out on half of the possible decisive evidence.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1. Pitfall 1: An overly confirmatory research strategy
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In the paper
“holding a wide rod across one's body (Fig. 2E) reportedly makes the distance between two poles (which form a doorway-like aperture) look narrower, as measured by having subjects instruct the experimenter to adjust a measuring tape to visually match the aperture's width.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Stefanucci & Geuss 2009
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In the paper
“However, such changes don't involve any penetration because they don't involve effects of knowledge per se.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.5. Input-driven changes in sensitivity over time
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In the paper
“Roughly, today's alleged top-down effects on perception are effects of motivation, action, emotion, categorization, and language.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 3. Contemporary top-down effects
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In the paper
“the report that reflecting on unethical actions makes the world look darker (Banerjee et al. 2012; Fig. 2O).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Banerjee et al. 2012
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In the paper
“the El Greco fallacy applies to any constant-error distortion that should affect equally the means of reproduction (e.g., canvases, grayscale patches) and the item reproduced (e.g., visual scenes to be painted, bright rooms).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
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In the paper
“The sounds' effects occur”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.4. Cross-modal effects
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Shams et al. 2002
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In the paper
“In general, experimental hypotheses can be tested in two sorts of ways: Not only should you observe an effect when your theory calls for it, but also you should not observe an effect when your theory demands its absence.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1. Pitfall 1: An overly confirmatory research strategy
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In the paper
“(Put more generally, the thesis of cognitive impenetrability constrains the information modules can access, but it does not constrain what modules can do with the input they do receive; e.g., Scholl & Leslie 1999.)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.5. Input-driven changes in sensitivity over time
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Scholl & Leslie 1999
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In the paper
“However, the particular theoretical motivations behind these various results are nonuniform, so it will be useful to understand these studies in groups.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 3. Contemporary top-down effects
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In the paper
“it seems more likely that darker photos (or darker skin tones) seemed more negative to subjects, and that conservatives deemed them more representative (and liberals less representative) for that reasonbecause conservatives think more negatively about Obama than liberals do.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.2. Other susceptible studies.
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In the paper
“However, another possibility is that subjects only judged the target to be farther, even without a real change in perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.1. Case studies.
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In the paper
“Subjects judged gray patches to be darker after reading negative (vs. positive) words, and subjects judged words printed in gray ink to be darker if the words were negative (vs. positive), as measured by selecting a darker grayscale patch to match the word's lightness (Meier et al. 2007; Fig. 2G).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Meier et al. 2007
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In the paper
“it was reported that accuracy in throwing darts at a target affected subsequent size judgments of the target, which was initially assumed to reflect a perceptual change: Less-accurate throwing led to smaller target-size estimates, as if one's performance perceptually resized the target (Wesp et al. 2004; Fig. 2F).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Wesp et al. 2004
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In the paper
“It has been reported that throwing a heavy ball (rather than a light ball) at a target increases estimates of that target's distance (Witt et al. 2004).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Witt et al. 2004
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In the paper
“the same research group (Wesp & Gasper 2012) replicated the earlier resultbut then ran a follow-up condition in which, before throwing, subjects were told that the darts were faulty and inaccurate.This additional instruction eliminated the correlation between performance and reported size.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Wesp & Gasper 2012
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In the paper
“Here too is an El Greco fallacy: if, per the first result, reading negative words makes gray patches look darker, then the gray patches from the second result should also have looked darker, and the effects of one should have canceled out the other.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.1.2. Other susceptible studies.
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In the paper
“effective demos can provide especially compelling evidence, and they may often directly rule out the kinds of worries we expressed in discussing the previous two pitfalls (i.e., task demands and postperceptual judgments).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
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In the paper
“many subjects explicitly articulated the experimental hypothesis when askedand only those subjects showed the backpack effect (Durgin et al. 2009).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.3. A lesson for future research.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Durgin et al. 2009
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In the paper
“But another explanation is that subjects modified their responses to suit the experimental circumstances, in which a very conspicuous manipulation (a curiously unexplained backpack) was administered before obtaining a single perceptual judgment (regarding the hill's slant).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.1. Case studies.
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In the paper
“although demand effects can be mitigated by nontransparent manipulations or indirect measures, they can also often be assessed by simply asking the subjects about the experimentfor example, during a careful postexperiment debriefing.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.3. A lesson for future research.
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In the paper
“In light of recent findings concerning task demands in studies of top-down effects on perception (especially Durgin et al. 2009), it is no longer possible to provide compelling evidence for a top-down effect on perception without considering the experiment's social context.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.3. A lesson for future research.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Durgin et al. 2009
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In the paper
“we contend that such low-level differences are even more pervasive and problematic than has been realized, and that simple experimental designs can reveal when such differences are responsible for apparent top-down effects.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4. Pitfall 4: Low-level differences (and amazing demonstrations!)
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In the paper
“a report that Black (i.e., African-American) faces look darker than White (i.e., Caucasian) faces, even when matched for mean luminance, as in Figure 3A (Levin & Banaji 2006).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Levin & Banaji 2006
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In the paper
“we contend that claims of top-down effects (especially in studies using transparent manipulations) can no longer be credible without at least asking aboutand reportingsubjects' beliefs about the experiment.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.3. A lesson for future research.
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In the paper
“A follow-up study (Durgin et al. 2011a) tested these possibilities directly and found that slightly changing the instructions so that the challenge was to hit the gift card directly (rather than land closest) led subjects to throw the beanbag farther”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Durgin et al. 2011a
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In the paper
“it has been reported that, when subjects can win a gift card taped to the ground if they throw a beanbag closer to the gift card than their peers do, subjects undershoot the gift card if it is worth $25 but not if it is worth $0suggesting (to the original authors) that more desirable objects look closer (Balcetis & Dunning 2010; Fig. 2P).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Balcetis & Dunning 2010
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In the paper
“Vision experiments occur in a variety of controlled environments (including the laboratory), but any such environment is also inevitably a social environment”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.3. Pitfall 3: Demand and response bias
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In the paper
“knowledge of an object's typical color (e.g., that bananas are yellow) reportedly influences that object's perceived color, such that a grayscale image of a banana is judged to be more than 20% yellow (Hansen et al. 2006;Olkkonen et al. 2008)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Hansen et al. 2006
- Not checked yetcites Olkkonen et al. 2008
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In the paper
“Moreover, in the vast majority of cases, it's not that the relevant studies attempted to address these pitfalls but failed; rather, it's that they seem never to have considered most of the pitfalls in the first place.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 5.2. A checklist for future work
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“a close examination of the face stimuli in Figure 3A suggests that the Black face seems to be under illumination, whereas the White face doesn't look particularly illuminated or shinya difference that has long been known to influence perceived lightness (Adelson 2000;Gilchrist & Jacobsen 1984).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Adelson 2000
- Not checked yetcites Gilchrist & Jacobsen 1984
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“reports that categorical differences facilitate visual search with line drawings of animals and artifactse.g., with faster and more efficient searches for animals among artifacts, and vice versa (Levin et al. 2001).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.1. Case studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Levin et al. 2001
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“However, dogs are also more geometrically similar to each other than they are to shoes (for example, the shoe images were shorter, wider, and differently oriented than the dog images; Fig. 2L), and size contrast may instead be influenced by such geometric similarity.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.4.2. Other susceptible studies.
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“And this is to say nothing of attentional effects on other visual propertiessuch as the fact that voluntary attention perceptually darkens transparent surfaces (Tse 2005), which could explain the increase in perceived transparency among thirsty observers (Changizi & Hall 2001; Fig. 2B) if nonthirsty observers simply paid more attention during the task (being less distracted by their thirst).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5.2. Other susceptible studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Tse 2005
- Not checked yetcites Changizi & Hall 2001
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In the paper
“That visual attention may be both necessary and sufficient for such effects suggests that apparent effects of action on perception may reduce to more routine and wellknown interactions between attention and perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5.1. Case studies.
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“On the other hand, given this prominence in theoretical discussions of top-down effects, it is curious that attention is almost never empirically explored in this literaturecurious especially given that such effects are often straightforwardly testable.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5.1. Case studies.
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“For example, findings suggesting that attended items can be seen as larger (Anton-Erxleben et al. 2007) immediately challenge the interpretation of nearly every alleged top-down effect on size perception, including reported effects of throwing performance on perceived target size (e.g., Cañal-Bruland et al. 2010; Fig. 2F), of balance on the perceived size of a walkable beam (Geuss et al. 2010), of”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5.2. Other susceptible studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Anton-Erxleben et al. 2007
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“In another example, hungry subjects more accurately identified briefly presented food-related words relative to subjects who were not hungry (Radel & Clément-Guillotin 2012); but if hungry subjects were simply thinking about food more than nonhungry subjects were, then it is no surprise that they better recognized words related to what they were thinking about, having activated the relevant”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.6. Pitfall 6: Memory and recognition
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- Not checked yetcites Radel & Clément-Guillotin 2012
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In the paper
“For example, switches in the Necker cube's interpretation are driven by changes in which corner of the cube is attended (Peterson & Gibson 1991;Toppino 2003), and the same has been found for other ambiguous figures (for a review, see Long & Toppino 2004).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5.1. Case studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Peterson & Gibson 1991
- Not checked yetcites Toppino 2003
- Not checked yetcites Long & Toppino 2004
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“Indeed, in similar contexts, the prevention of such labeling by verbal shadowing impairs subjects' ability to notice changes to objects' identities (e.g., a Coke bottle changing into a cardboard box) but not to their spatial configuration (e.g., a Coke bottle moving from one location in the scene to another), suggesting that the work done by such labels is to enhance contentful memories rather”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.6. Pitfall 6: Memory and recognition
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- Not checked yetcites Simons 1996
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“Under these conditions, the label advantage disappeared, suggesting that memory was the culprit all along.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.6. Pitfall 6: Memory and recognition
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- Not checked yetcites Klemfuss et al. (2012)
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In the paper
“These results suggest that relatedness is the key factor in such effects, and thus that memory, not perception, improves detection of words related to morality.”
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In the paper
“Yet, it is striking how many recent studies of recognition (including nearly all of those mentioned in sect.4.6) do not even acknowledge that such an interpretation is important or interesting.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.6.3. A lesson for future research.
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In the paper
“Nevertheless, these recent discussions happily agree that, to be compelling, top-down effects must not merely operate through attention.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.5.1. Case studies.
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- Not checked yetcites Collins & Olson 2014
- Not checked yetcites Vetter & Newen 2014
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In the paper
“In that case, it could be that the moral words simply primed each other and were easier to recognize for that reason rather than because of anything special about morality.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.6. Pitfall 6: Memory and recognition
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In the paper
“Any kind of information the sensory organs receive is meaningless because there is no inherent meaning in sensory information without experience and knowledge (Proulx 2011)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Proulx 2011
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In the paper
“Second, behavior is multiply determined by cognitive processes.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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In the paper
“But if unconscious inference plays a role in perception, as it certainly does even in the perception of a red object, then there must be some role of recognition and judgment even for low-level perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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In the paper
“First, perception is not a unitary construct but is composed of multiple components.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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In the paper
“If it turns out, for example, that reported effects of desires on perceived size are explained simply by increased attention to the desired object, then such an effect will go from being a revolutionary discovery about the nature of perception to being simply a demonstration that people pay attention to objects they like.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 5.2. A checklist for future work
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In the paper
“The argument made by Emberson and Amso (2012) is not that one can find activity in perceptual systems as evidence for a top-down effect but rather that changes in visual percepts arise from activity in learning and memory systems.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Emberson and Amso (2012)
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In the paper
“Levin and Banaji (2006) report several other experiments with similar conclusions.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.
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- Not checked yetcites Levin and Banaji (2006)
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In the paper
“After perceptual input reaches the retina, multiple brain regions operate on the inputselecting the significant from the mundane (Lim et al. 2009), often by emotion (Anderson & Phelps 2001) or motivation (Egner & Hirsch 2005), and some via top-down re-entrant processes (Gilbert & Li 2013)to construct perceptual experience.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Lim et al. 2009
- Not checked yetcites Anderson & Phelps 2001
- Not checked yetcites Egner & Hirsch 2005
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In the paper
“there is evidence that long-term users of such devices who once had vision (who had acquired blindness) have visual imagery that is evoked immediately by the sounds they hear with a device, and therefore express that they have the perception of sight (Ward & Meijer 2010).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Ward & Meijer 2010
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“Indeed, from the beginning, New Look proponents faced similar criticisms.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 5.1. Vague theoretical objections and Australian stepbrothers
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- Not checked yetcites Bruner and Goodman (1947)
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In the paper
“Although some connections between the senses appear to be direct and low-level (Meredith & Stein 1986)”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Meredith & Stein 1986
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In the paper
“others certainly are the product of learning and experience (Proulx et al. 2014).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Proulx et al. 2014
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In the paper
“Though many alternative conceptions of what perception is and how it works have deep theoretical foundations and motivations, we suspect that the primary fuel for such alternative conceptions is simply the presence of so many empirical reports of top-down influences on perceptionespecially in the tidal wave of such effects appearing over the last two decades.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 5. Discussion and conclusion
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In the paper
“None of these other experiments involve subjectively appreciable demonstrations, however”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Levin and Banaji (2006)
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In the paper
“because the observers were explicitly told that the study was about”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 2.
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- Not checked yetcites Levin and Banaji (2006)
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“Crossmodal perception is the norm, rather than the exception”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Ghazanfar & Schroeder 2006
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“Sensory substitution devices allow someone with a damaged sensory modality (such as the visual system for the visually impaired) to receive the missing information by transforming it into a format that another intact sensory modality (such as the auditory [Meijer 1992] or somatosensory system [Bach-y-Rita & Kercel 2003]) can process.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Meijer 1992
- Not checked yetcites Bach-y-Rita & Kercel 2003
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In the paper
“Accordingly, we do not think morality is modular, either (Van Bavel et al. 2015).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Van Bavel et al. 2015
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“If brains resonate with the similarity of motor and affective states (Niedenthal et al. 2010), bodily actions may behave as affectively polarized primes that preactivate the representations of emotionally related facial features, thus facilitating the encoding of features belonging to the same, rather than to a different, valence domain.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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- Not checked yetcites Niedenthal et al. 2010
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“Attention is often inextricably intertwined with perception, and it is deployed not only to spatial regions, but also to sensory dimensions, learned dimensions, and learned complex configurations.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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“Despite being commonly conceived as subjective, expressive qualities are phenomenally objective (i.e., perceived as belonging to the object; Köhler 1929;1938) and show a remarkablethough not exclusivedependence on configural stimulus properties.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Köhler 1929
- Not checked yetcites [1938]
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“These recurrent connections are particularly important when processing degraded inputs, and they serve to strengthen weak bottom-up signals (Wyatte et al. 2012).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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- Not checked yetcites Wyatte et al. 2012
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“The existence of categorical perception (Goldstone & Hendrickson 2010) seems to contradict F&S.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Goldstone & Hendrickson 2010
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“Accordingly, it is trivially true that semantic memory plays some role in the moral popout effect (how else would our participants know words like kill and die), yet this does not rule out that the motivational relevance of morality (or any motivationally relevant construct) boosts related content to awareness.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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“However, with training, dimensions that were originally fused can become more perceptually separated (Goldstone & Steyvers 2001), and once this occurs, it becomes possible for attention to select the separate dimensions.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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- Not checked yetcites Goldstone & Steyvers 2001
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“Perceptual changes affect what can be attended, and attention affects what is perceptually learned (Shiu & Pashler 1992).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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- Not checked yetcites Shiu & Pashler 1992
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“The problem with generalizing this kind of account is that attention influences perceptual processes at many stages and sometimes with a high degree of specificity.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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“We suspect that moral words are not explicitly encoded in semantic memory as moral terms or as having significant overlapping content.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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“Categorical perception can be acquired during individual experience (Beale & Keil 1995), and it constitutes a paradigmatic case of observer-dependent, familiarity-mediated sensitivity change.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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- Not checked yetcites Beale & Keil 1995
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“To summarize, our evidence challenges the bold claim that cognition does not affect perception, supports a circumscribed penetrability of affective perception, and suggests indirect affective priming as a candidate mechanism by which observer's states mold perceptual properties experienced as phenomenally objective and yet loaded with meaning.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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“Because of the wide range of attentional effectsfrom centrally oriented modulations of percept selection, to adjustments of gain to certain features, to the extreme case of head-turningthe boundary between peripheral attention shifts and changes to perception is entirely unclear and potentially artificial.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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“Our studies challenge any bold claim against penetrability of perception and suggest that perceptual theory can benefit from demonstrations of howunder controlled circumstancesobserver's states can mold expressive qualities.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Bioenergetic scaling of walkable distances.
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“At the pinnacle of the hierarchy we find anterior IT”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Ito et al. 1995
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“For example, inputs originating at the prefrontal cortex reach first the IT cortex; some outputs from the IT cortex reach V1 directly and some reach it via the V4→V2→V1 route (Gilbert & Wu 2013).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Gilbert & Wu 2013
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“Athletes, musicians, coaches, doctors, and gourmets are all familiar with engaging in training methods for improving their own perceptual performances (Goldstone et al. 2015).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Penetrability of perceived facial expressions.
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- Not checked yetcites Goldstone et al. 2015
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“When we see a face, for example, we perceive it as an integrated whole, but at the same time we are consciously aware of all of the minute spatial elements that make up that face.”
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“From these preintegration response patterns, information converges in successive hierarchical stages, from V1 orientation-selective cells through downstream cortical areas V2, V4, and the inferotemporal cortex (IT).This successive convergence results in cells having increasingly large receptive fields (RFs) that cannot encode spatial details but may be selective to global features such as size, or”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“Those details are perceived instantaneously and in parallel.”
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“Almost all top-down information reaches V1 via layer 1 (see summary Fig. 1 in Gur & Snodderly 2008), where the spatial extent of its synaptic connectivity is rather spread out (Rockland 1994).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Gur & Snodderly 2008
- Not checked yetcites Rockland 1994
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“We also note that the perceptual ability to transform individual spatial elements into holistic objects is instantaneous and parallelwhich argues for a feed-forward, encapsulated perception.”
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“Modern neuroanatomy reveals that the brain is better understood as one large, interconnected network of neurons, bathed in a chemical system, that can be parsed as a set of broadly distributed, dynamically changing, interacting systems”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Marder 2012
- Not checked yetcites Sporns 2011
- Not checked yetcites van den Heuvel & Sporns 2013
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“Thus, in the visual cortex, objects in their full details are represented by V1 response patterns while the global information for each object that is required for comparing the acute image to its stored prototype (”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“These systems are domain general: Their interactions constitute mental phenomena that we consider distinct, such as perception, cognition, emotion, and action”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Anderson 2014
- Not checked yetcites Barrett 2009
- Not checked yetcites Pessoa 2014
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“This means that top-down influences typically drive perception, and are constrained or corrected by incoming sensory inputs, rather than the other way around.”
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“These assumptions, and the conclusion they support, are untenable given the considerable neuroscientific evidence that processing in the human brain is distributed, active, and exquisitely sensitive to context.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“About 10%-30% of individuals who suffer from a severe visual impairment, such as glaucoma, experience Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS; Schultz et al. 1996;Vukicevic & Fitzmaurice 2008).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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- Not checked yetcites Schultz et al. 1996
- Not checked yetcites Vukicevic & Fitzmaurice 2008
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“Seemingly distinct mental phenomena are implemented as dynamic brain states, not as individual, static mental organs”
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“These examples show that top-down cognitive processes are not only able to penetrate visual perceptions, but also they can cause them.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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“Levin and Banaji (2006) demonstrated that participants seem to perceive Black faces to be darker than White faces.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Cognition can affect perception: Restating the evidence of a top-down effect
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- Not checked yetcites Levin and Banaji (2006)
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“In addition, we argue that F&S apply unjustified level of skepticism about top-down effects relative to other broad hypotheses about the sources of perceptual intelligence.”
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“However, pure visual hallucinations are also possible and are associated with hyperconnectivity between the amygdala and the visual cortex (Ford et al. 2015), underscoring the role of top-down feedback in their formation.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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- Not checked yetcites Ford et al. 2015
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“Capacity limits of cognition are different from those of perception, and as humans, we are restricted to representing links between four variables (a quaternary relationship) or fewer in a single cognitive representation”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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- Not checked yetcites Halford et al. 2005
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“In this commentary, we present two examples where perception is not only influenced by, but also in fact driven by, top-down effects: hallucinations and mental imagery.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Hallucinations and mental imagery demonstrate top-down effects on visual perception
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“But the main thrust of their critique is based on folk categories of perception and cognition as reified in a modular, reactive, and context-insensitive brain.”
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“In discussing their “El Greco” fallacy, F&S implicitly assume that top-down effects would uniformly influence all elements in a visual field.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Moshe Gur
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“A top-down effect that can be partially ascribed to memory does not mean it is not (also) an effect on perception, because part of what we call memoryvisual memoryappears to have a perceptual locus (D'Esposito & Postle 2015;Pratte & Tong 2014).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites D'Esposito & Postle 2015
- Not checked yetcites Pratte & Tong 2014
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“These studies show that expectations and knowledge affect virtually all aspects of visual perception.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“All of those assumptions are wrong.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“Visual memory is not a back-end system, as F&S assume.It is perceptual.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“Color knowledge affects color appearance of images (Hansen et al. 2006) and even color afterimages (Lupyan 2015b).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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- Not checked yetcites Hansen et al. 2006
- Not checked yetcites Lupyan 2015b
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“It is quite possibleindeed it seems likelythat static distinctions between perception, cognition, and emotion reflect much more about historical intellectual biases in the field of cognitive science than about the true operations of the brain/mind.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Gary Lupyan
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“In fact, one can perfectly well individuate a system in terms of what it does (e.g., what computations it performs) regardless of whether the operations of the system are sensitive to information from outside.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > N O T E
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“I agree that early vision is cognitively impenetrable because there are no direct cognitive effects on early vision.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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“In fact, it is in virtue of stable bottom-up models that one can begin to understand how top-down effects modulate visual processing.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > N O T E
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“There is, however, substantial neuropsychological evidence that late vision and, hence, the percept is directly cognitively penetrated because the perceptual processes of late vision use cognitive information as a resource and, thus, cognition modulates the processes of late vision.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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- Not checked yetcites Raftopoulos 2009
- Not checked yetcites Raftopoulos 2011
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“To this aim, attention enhances the activity of neurons in the cortical regions that encode the stimuli that most likely contain information relevant to the testing of the hypothesis.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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“The aim of this interplay is to enable perceivers to respond and eventually adapt their responses as they interact with the environment so that this interaction be successful.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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“Peripheral attention selects the input to perception but does not affect how the processing operates (ibid, sect.4.5.1, para.1).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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- Not checked yetcites ibid, sect.4.5.1, para.1
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“The investigation of top-down effects on perception requires a rigorous definition of what qualifies as perceptual to begin with.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > What draws the line between perception and cognition?
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“The timing of these cognitive effects places them within late vision but outside early vision, which means that late vision, but not early vision, is affected directly by cognition.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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“Clark (2013) argues that to perceive the world is to use what you know to explain away the sensory signal across multiple spatial and temporal scales; the process of perception is inseparable from cognitive processes.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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- Not checked yetcites Clark 2013 source
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“There are several ways cognition affects late vision, such as the application of concepts on some output of early vision so that hypotheses concerning the identities of distal objects can be formed and tested in order for the objects to be categorized and identified.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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“Success in such an endeavor relies on inferring correctly (or nearly so) the nature of the source of the incoming signal from the signal itself.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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“Thus, N2 is considered to be a component of cognitively driven or sustained attention.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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“The cognitively driven direct attentional effects within late vision contribute to testing hypotheses concerning the putative distal causes of the sensory data encoded in the lower neuronal assemblies in the visual processing hierarchy.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
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“Accordingly, the authors correctly conclude that when perceptual behavior is explained by invoking the role of peripheral attention, even if peripheral attention is guided by cognitive states, that does not entail perception being cognitively penetrated, a view also shared by the majority of philosophers (Zeimbekis & Raftopoulos 2015).”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Zeimbekis & Raftopoulos 2015
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“Whereas Firestone & Scholl's (F&S's) phenomenological demarcation of perception from cognition appeals to intuition, we argue that the dividing line is best attained at the functional level.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > What draws the line between perception and cognition?
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“Research suggests that cognitively driven spatial and object/feature-centered attention, as expressed by the N2 Event Related Potential (ERP) component, affects perceptual processing.”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > Athanassios Raftopoulos
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Chelazzi et al. 1993
- Not checked yetcites Luck 1995
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The paper relies on this without support.
The set of studies reporting top-down effects that the authors review is representative of all such studies.
“we count more than 175 papers published since 1995 reporting such effects”
“None of these hundreds of studieseither individually or collectivelyprovides compelling evidence for true top-down effects on perception”
The paper relies on this without support.
The six pitfalls reviewed are the primary alternative explanations for reported top-down effects, and the literature review is comprehensive enough to support the claim that no alleged top-down effect has met these challenges.
“It is our view that no alleged top-down effect of cognition on perception has so far successfully met the challenges collectively embodied by the pitfalls we have reviewed.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The studies cited as evidence for the pitfalls are methodologically sound and their findings are reliable.
“for each alternative explanation we have offered here, we reviewed multiple case studies suggesting not only that it could matter (in principle), but also that it actually does matter (in practice)”
The paper relies on this without support.
The hippocampus is one of the few regions of the brain that has not been found to subserve multiple functions, despite intense study for decades.
“The hippocampus is one of the few regions of the brain that has not been found to subserve multiple”
The paper relies on this without support.
Category priming is more likely when terms are explicitly identifiable as being in the same category or at least as having multiple overlapping semantic features.
“Category priming is more likely when the terms are explicitly identifiable as being in the same category or at least as having multiple overlapping semantic features (e.g., pilot, airport).”
The paper relies on this without support.
Any observed behavior can be explained by multiple processes intervening between perceptual input and motor response.
“Any observed behavior can be explained by multiple processes intervening between perceptual input and motor response.”
The paper relies on this without support.
A single process rarely explains any behavior, and possible explanations are not always mutually exclusive.
“A single process rarely explains any behavior, and possible explanations are not always mutually exclusive.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The visual system consists of a proprietary set of mechanisms specialized for the analysis of signals originating from the retina.
“One can characterize the visual system as the set of brain mechanisms specialized for the analysis of signals originating from the retina.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Late vision is the stage in which the percept is constructed.
“late vision, the latter being the stage in which the percept is constructed.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Attention enhances the activity of neurons in the cortical regions that encode the attended stimuli.
“Attention is thought to enhance the activity of neurons in the cortical regions that encode the attended stimuli.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The N2 is elicited about 200-300 ms after stimulus onset in monkeys and humans, in the area V4 and in the inferotemporal cortex.
“The N2 is elicited about 200-300 ms after stimulus onset in monkeys and humans, in the area V4 and in the inferotemporal cortex.”
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“Previous studies have shown perceptual biases with uninformative cues (i.e., mere suggestions) across a range of tasks (27), even in judgments of elementary visual properties like color (28).”
From Social information creates self-fulfilling prophecies in judgments of pain, vicarious pain, and cognitive effort (2026) · cites this paper as [27]
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIn the citing paper
“Similarly, humans are unreliable guides to their own inner workings: they are often overconfident in their explanatory knowledge (Rozenblit & Keil, 2002) and have little access to the mechanisms underlying some of their psychology (e.g., perception, see Firestone & Scholl, 2016).”
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§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.1. Case studies.
“Less-accurate throwing led to smaller target-size estimates, as if one's performance perceptually resized the target”
§ Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects > 4.2.2. Other susceptible studies.
“Subjects who performed poorly while clinging to the rock-climbing wall had an obvious explanation for performing poorly and so had no need to explain their misses by inflating target-size estimates.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Venue
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2015-07-20
- Volume
- 39
- Pages
- e229-e229
- ISSN
- 0140-525X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-1825
- OpenAlex
- W2129245434
- Cited by
- 1,200
- References
- 309
- Citations by year
- 2026: 68 · 2025: 65 · 2024: 92 · 2023: 147 · 2022: 107 · 2021: 94 · 2020: 167 · 2019: 200 · 2018: 92 · 2017: 91 · 2016: 69 · 2015: 7
- FWCI
- 51.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- philarchive.org
- Locations
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Taipei Medical University
- Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- top-down effects, visual perception, methodological pitfalls, linguistic representation
- MeSH terms
- Cognition, Emotions, Humans, Visual Perception, Intention
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