Awareness shaping or shaped by prediction and postdiction: Editorial

Frontiers in Psychology

Yuki Yamada¹ 

关键词: consciousness;    vision;    audition;    touch;    motor control;    action;    motion perception;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00166

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Our conscious experience of the external world and/or our body states is quite rich. For example, we see the red color of a ripe apple, hear the sound of a stream, and feel the smoothness of silk by touch. In addition to the external world, we consciously experience the movement and states of our body. We intuitively believe that we are aware of all the events that occur in the external world, and that we control our body movements at will. From a scientific point of view, however, this is not true. Because of capacity limitations in neural processing, the brain can handle only a limited amount of information at once, and hence we experience just a fraction of available sensory inputs (e.g., change blindness: Rensink et al., 1997). The selected information does not necessarily shape our conscious experience as-is. To generate coherent perceptual representations of the external world/our body, the spatiotemporal integration and organization of the selected information is necessary.

【 授权许可】

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