Deflating Inflation: the Connection (or Lack Thereof) Between Decisional and Metacognitive Processes and Visual Phenomenology

Overview

Journal Neurosci Conscious

Publisher Oxford University Press

Date 2019 Nov 22

PMID 31749989

Citations 8

Authors

Greyson Abid

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Abstract

Vision presents us with a richly detailed world. Yet, there is a range of limitations in the processing of visual information, such as poor peripheral resolution and failures to notice things we do not attend. This raises a natural question: How do we seem to see so much when there is considerable evidence indicating otherwise? In an elegant series of studies, Lau and colleagues have offered a novel answer to this long-standing question, proposing that our sense of visual richness is an artifact of decisional and metacognitive deficits. I critically evaluate this proposal and conclude that it rests on questionable presuppositions concerning the relationship between decisional and metacognitive processes, on one hand, and visual phenomenology, on the other.

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