Although the idea of action simulation is nowadays popular in cognitive science,
neuroscience and robotics, many aspects of the simulative processes remain unclear from …

We use the hierarchical nature of Bayesian perceptual inference to explain a fundamental
aspect of the temporality of experience, namely the phenomenology of temporal flow. The …

Predictive processing has begun to offer new insights into the nature of conscious
experience—but the link is not straightforward. A wide variety of systems may be described …

Neuropsychological findings used to motivate the “two visual systems” hypothesis have
been taken to endanger a pair of widely accepted claims about spatial representation in …

Some critics of the two-visual-systems hypothesis (TVSH) argue that it is incompatible with
the fundamentally egocentric nature of visual experience (what we call the 'perspectival …

Action is a means of acquiring perceptual information about the environment. Turning
around, for example, alters your spatial relations to surrounding objects and, hence, which of …

While considerable evidence supports the notion that lower-level interpretation of incoming
sensory information is guided by top-down sensory expectations, less is known about the …

The most important question concerning picture perception is: what perceptual state are we
in when we see an object in a picture? In order to answer this question, philosophers have …

This is an unusual book. It launches a new style of research into the nature of the mind, a
style that pro? ciently uncovers, explores and exploits the synergies between complex …

Philosophy of perception is guilty of focusing on the perception of far space, neglecting the
possibility that the perception of the space immediately surrounding the body, which is …