Editorial: Perception–Cognition Interface and Cross-Modal Experiences: Insights into Unified Consciousness

Frontiers in Psychology

Aleks¹ 

关键词: perception;    cognition;    concepts;    cognitive penetrability of perception;    cross-modal experience;    multisensory integration;    multimodal binding;    the unity of consciousness;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01593

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The present Research Topic explores closely related aspects of mental functioning, namely an interplay between perception and cognition, interactions among various sensory modalities, and finally, more or less unified conscious experiences arising in the context of these relations. Contributions emphasize a high flexibility observed in perception and may be seen as potential challenges to the traditional modular architecture of perceptual systems. Although the articles describe different phenomena, they follow one common theme—to investigate broadly understood unified experience—by studying either perception–cognition integration or the integration between sensory modalities. These integrative processes may well apply to subpersonal unconscious representations. However, the aim here is to approach phenomenal experience and thus a straightforward way of thinking about it is in terms of conscious perception.

【 授权许可】

CC BY