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Beyond the Grand Illusion: What Change Blindness Really Teaches Us About Vision
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Experiments on scene perception and change blindness suggest that the visual system does not construct detailed internal models of a scene. These experiments therefore call into doubt the traditional view that vision is a process in which detailed representations of the environment must be constructed. The non-existence of such detailed representations, however, does not entail that we do not perceive the detailed environment. The “grand illusion hypothesis” that our visual world is an illusion rests on (1) a problematic “reconstructionist” conception of vision, and (2) a misconception about the character of perceptual experience.
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- Authors
- Noe, A., Pessoa, L., & Thompson, E.
- Venue
- Visual Cognition
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2000-01
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1-3
- Pages
- 93-106
- ISSN
- 1350-6285 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0716
- OpenAlex
- W2117633840
- Cited by
- 147
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 3.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Visual Cognition (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Keywords
- change blindness, scene perception, visual representation, reconstructionism, perceptual experience, visual system
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