The brain may know more than cognitive theory can tell us: a reply to Ted Parks.
In reply to Parks' interpretation of Rock's cognitive theory of illusory figures, we maintain our point of view that such a theory has limited heuristic and explanatory power because it fails to predict subjects' responses in psychophysical tasks. As a result, the theoretical framework defended by Parks is not appropriate for suggesting candidate mechanisms of brain-behaviour function that could underly the phenomenal emergence of such figures.
Dresp
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Laboratoire de Systèmes Biomécaniques & Cognitifs, IMF, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. birgitta.dresp@ensps.u-strasbg.fr
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D019336:Cognitive Science; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009903:Optical Illusions / Q000502:physiology*; D011601:Psychophysics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results