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640The Deep Structure of LivesPhilosophia Scientiae 19 153-176. 2015.La psychologie a toujours traité le comportement et l’expérience comme étant enchâssés dans un flux temporel unidimensionnel, « le courant du comportement » dans lequel les événements et les actions occupent des intervalles de temps qui ne se chevauchent pas. Pourtant, une analyse phénoménologique révèle que la structure de nos vies est bien plus riche et intéressante. En utilisant la notion de « quasidécomposabilité » de Herbert Simon, je décris cette structure comme un assemblage d’épisodes qu…Read more
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457Internalization: A metaphor we can live withoutBehavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (4): 618-625. 2001.Shepard has supposed that the mind is stocked with innate knowledge of the world and that this knowledge figures prominently in the way we see the world. According to him, this internal knowledge is the legacy of a process of internalization; a process of natural selection over the evolutionary history of the species. Shepard has developed his proposal most fully in his analysis of the relation between kinematic geometry and the shape of the motion path in apparent motion displays. We argue that…Read more
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375Questioning the automaticity of audiovisual correspondencesCognition 175 (C): 101-108. 2018.An audiovisual correspondence (AVC) refers to an observer’s seemingly arbitrary yet consistent matching of sensory features across the two modalities; for example, between an auditory pitch and visual size. Research on AVCs has frequently used a speeded classification procedure in which participants are asked to rapidly classify an image when it is either accompanied by a congruent or an incongruent sound (or vice versa). When, as is typically the case, classification is faster in the presence o…Read more
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248Critical duration for the resolution of form: Centrally or peripherally determined?Journal of Experimental Psychology 73 (3): 323. 1967.
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73Audio-visual objectsReview of Philosophy and Psychology 1 (1): 41-61. 2010.In this paper we offer a theory of cross-modal objects. To begin, we discuss two kinds of linkages between vision and audition. The first is a duality. The the visual system detects and identifies surfaces ; the auditory system detects and identifies sources . Surfaces are illuminated by sources of light; sound is reflected off surfaces. However, the visual system discounts sources and the auditory system discounts surfaces. These and similar considerations lead to the Theory of Indispensable At…Read more
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51Toward a psychophysics of perceptual organization using multistable stimuli and phenomenal reportsAxiomathes 13 (3-4): 283-302. 2003.We explore experimental methods used to study the phenomena of perceptual organization, first studied by the Gestalt psychologists. We describe an application of traditional psychophysics to perceptual organization and offer alternative methods. Among these, we distinguish two approaches that use multistable stimuli: (1) phenomenological psychophysics, in which the observer's response is assumed to accurately and directly reflect perceptual experience; and (2) the interference paradigm, in which…Read more
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32Even feature integration is cognitively impenetrableBehavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (3): 371-372. 1999.Pylyshyn is willing to assume that attention can influence feature integration. We argue that he concedes too much. Feature integration occurs preattentively, except in the case of certain “perverse” displays, such as those used in feature-conjunction searches.
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19The whole is equal to the sum of its parts: A probabilistic model of grouping by proximity and similarity in regular patternsPsychological Review 115 (1): 131-154. 2008.
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10Internalization: A metaphor we can live withoutBehavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (4): 756-757. 2001.
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8Phenomenology, psychologicalIn Lynn Nadel (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan. 2002.
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8The Deep Structure of LivesPhilosophia Scientiae 19 153-176. 2015.La psychologie a toujours traité le comportement et l’expérience comme étant enchâssés dans un flux temporel unidimensionnel, « le courant du comportement » dans lequel les événements et les actions occupent des intervalles de temps qui ne se chevauchent pas. Pourtant, une analyse phénoménologique révèle que la structure de nos vies est bien plus riche et intéressante. En utilisant la notion de « quasidécomposabilité » de Herbert Simon, je décris cette structure comme un assemblage d’épisodes qu…Read more
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As the sound ternus-on auditory apparent motionBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 24 (5): 329-329. 1986.
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Beyond grouping by proximity in regular dot patternsIn Robert Schwartz (ed.), Perception, Blackwell. pp. 33-33. 2004.
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