Attention alters predictive processing. (2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Clark, Andy
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 39(2016)
• Publication Date: 2016
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15002472
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: Firestone & Scholl (F&S) bracket many attentional effects as "peripheral, " altering the inputs to a cognitive process without altering the processing itself. By way of contrast, I highlight an emerging class of neurocomputational models that imply profound, pervasive, nonperipheral influences of attention on perception. This transforms the landscape for empirical debates concerning possible top-down effects on perception.