Gepubliceerd in:
01-01-2007 | Editorial
Taking the brain serious: introduction to the special issue on integration in and across perception and action
Auteurs:
Bernhard Hommel, Bruce Milliken
Gepubliceerd in:
Psychological Research
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Uitgave 1/2007
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Excerpt
Our world consists of object and events. As an almost defining criterion of how an object is constituted, the features of an object are all attached to each other: the redness of the cherry is exactly where I find its roundness and the softness of its skin, and all these features are there at the same point in time. Things get a bit more complicated if we consider larger objects, like a sailing ship—where the whiteness may be restricted to the sail, and temporally extended events, where features may gradually change over time. But the basic organizing structure is always the same, namely, things that belong together share spatiotemporal coordinates. This observation may seem trivial, but it is in fact striking when one considers that our brain has a very different organizational structure. …