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Perceiving the Present: Systematization of Illusions or Illusion of Systematization?
Article first published online: 3 NOV 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01121.x
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Briscoe, R. E. (2010), Perceiving the Present: Systematization of Illusions or Illusion of Systematization?. Cognitive Science, 34: 1530–1542. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01121.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 3 NOV 2010
- Article first published online: 3 NOV 2010
- Received 8 November 2008; received in revised form 12 November 2009; accepted 2 February 2010
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Keywords:
- Illusions;
- Systematization;
- Visual prediction;
- Extrapolation;
- Sensorimotor contingencies;
- Compensation;
- Neural delay;
- Perceiving the present
Abstract
Mark Changizi et al. (2008) claim that it is possible systematically to organize more than 50 kinds of illusions in a 7 × 4 matrix of 28 classes. This systematization, they further maintain, can be explained by the operation of a single visual processing latency correction mechanism that they call “perceiving the present” (PTP). This brief report raises some concerns about the way a number of illusions are classified by the proposed systematization. It also poses two general problems—one empirical and one conceptual—for the PTP approach.