title: Attention alters predictive processing.
abstract: Firestone & Scholl (F&S) bracket many attentional effects as "peripheral," altering the inputs to a cognitive process without altering the processing itself. By way of contrast, I highlight an emerging class of neurocomputational models that imply profound, pervasive, nonperipheral influences of attention on perception. This transforms the landscape for empirical debates concerning possible top-down effects on perception.
authors.affiliation: School of Philosophy,Psychology,and Language Sciences,University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh EH8 9AD,United Kingdomandy.clark@ed.ac.ukhttp://edin.ac/1tqX3sO.
authors.forename: Andy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception