title: The folly of boxology.
abstract: Although the authors do a valuable service by elucidating the pitfalls of inferring top-down effects, they overreach by claiming that vision is cognitively impenetrable. Their argument, and the entire question of cognitive penetrability, seems rooted in a discrete, stage-like model of the mind that is unsupported by neural data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign,IL 61820.dmbeck@illinois.eduhttp://becklab.beckman.illinois.edu/jcleven2@illinois.edu.
authors.forename: Diane M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign,IL 61820.dmbeck@illinois.eduhttp://becklab.beckman.illinois.edu/jcleven2@illinois.edu.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Clevenger
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D014785:Vision, Ocular