How the mind constitutes itself through perceptual learning

Michael H. Herzog; Michael Esfeld

doi:10.1556/lp.1.2009.1.11

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Learning & Perception

Volume/Issue:: Volume 1: Issue 1

How the mind constitutes itself through perceptual learning

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Michael H. Herzog

Michael H. Herzog Laboratory of Psychophysics, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

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Michael Esfeld

Michael Esfeld Department of Philosophy, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Pages:: 147–154

Online Publication Date:: 01 Jun 2009

Publication Date:: 01 Jun 2009

Article Category:: Journal Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/lp.1.2009.1.11

Keywords:: complexity; computer metaphor of the mind; hyperacuity

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Abstract

Most theories of perception assume a rigid relationship between objects of the physical world and the corresponding mental representations. We show by a priori reasoning that this assumption is not fulfilled. We claim instead that all object-representation correspondences have to be learned. However, we cannot learn to perceive all objects that there are in the world. We arrive at these conclusions by a combinatory analysis of a fictive stimulus world and the way to cope with its complexity, which is perceptual learning. We show that successful perceptual learning requires changes in the representational states of the brain that are not derived directly from the constitution of the physical world. The mind constitutes itself through perceptual learning.

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Learning & Perception

Print ISSN:: 1789-3186

Online ISSN:: 2060-9175

Learning & Perception
Language	English
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