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Filling-in as a within-level propagation may be an illusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Talis Bachmann
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2DY Hampshire, United Kingdomtalis.bachmannt@port.ac.uk

Abstract

“Finding out” about the visual world as approached from the organismic level may well include the “filling-in” type of perceptual completion if considered in terms of underlying neurophysiological mechanisms. But “filling in” can be interpreted not only as a result of within-level propagating of neural activity, but as a byproduct of the process that is necessary for modulating preconscious information about physically present objects or events so as to generate conscious quality in attending to them.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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