Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Open Peer Commentary

Border crossings: Perceptual and post-perceptual object representation

Tyler Burgea1

a1 Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095. burge@ucla.edu

Abstract

Carey's claim that no object representations are perceptual rests on a faulty view of perception. To delineate origins of post-perceptual (“conceptual” or “core cognitive”) representation, we need a more accurate view of perceptual representation.

(Online publication May 19 2011)

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