کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5041823 | 1474164 | 2017 | 15 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- Offers an exposition of the biased competition theory of attention.
- Proposes a new approach to attention based on metacognition.
- Discusses the epistemic consequences of the metacognitive view of attention in perception and cognition.
- Argues that attention can be a form of cognitive penetrability.
A recent approach to the cognitive penetrability of perception, i.e. the possibility that perception is shaped top-down by high-level cognitive states such as beliefs and desires, proposes to understand the phenomenon on the basis of its consequences, among which there is a challenge for the epistemic role of perceptual experience in justifying beliefs (Stokes, 2015). In this paper, I argue that some attentional phenomena qualify as cases of cognitive penetrability under this consequentialist approach. I present a popular theory of attention, the biased-competition theory, on which basis I establish that attention is a form of metacognitive regulation. I argue that attention (as metacognitive regulation) involves the right kind of cognitive-perceptual relation and leads to the same epistemic consequences as other more traditional versions of cognitive penetrability.
Journal: Consciousness and Cognition - Volume 47, January 2017, Pages 48-62