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39Crowding, attention and consciousness: In support of the inference hypothesisMind and Language 33 (1): 17-33. 2018.One of the most important topics in current work on consciousness is what relationship it has to attention. Recently, one of the focuses of this debate has been on the phenomenon of identity crowding. Ned Block has claimed that identity crowding involves conscious perception of an object that we are unable to pay attention to. In this article, we draw upon a range of empirical findings to argue against Block's interpretation of the data. We also argue that current empirical evidence strongly sup…Read more
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17High confidence and low accuracy in redundancy maskingConsciousness and Cognition 102 103349. 2022.
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16Semantic and Perceptual Representations of Color: Evidence of a Shared Color-Naming FunctionJournal of Cognition and Culture 5 (3-4): 427-486. 2005.Much research on color representation and categorization has assumed that relations among color terms can be proxies for relations among color percepts. We test this assumption by comparing the mapping of color words with color appearances among different observer groups performing cognitive tasks: an invariance of naming task; and triad similarity judgments of color term and color appearance stimuli within and across color categories. Observer subgroups were defined by perceptual phenotype and …Read more
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16Redundancy masking and the identity crowding debateThought: A Journal of Philosophy 9 (4): 257-265. 2020.Some have claimed that identity crowding is a case where we consciously see an object to which we are unable to pay attention. Opponents of this view offer alternative explanations, which emphasise the importance of prior knowledge, amongst other factors. We review new empirical evidence showing that prior knowledge has a profound effect on identity crowding. We argue that this is problematic for the “conscious seeing without attention” view, and supports an opposing view.
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KU LeuvenPost-doctoral fellow
Leuven, Belgium