Mapping the Visual Icon.
It is often claimed that pre-attentive vision has an 'iconic' format. This is seen to explain pre-attentive vision's characteristically high processing capacity and to make sense of an overlap in the mechanisms of early vision and mental imagery. But what does the iconicity of pre-attentive vision a...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 552 - 578 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2022
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