> > How do we know what we're seeing?  The decision is made instaneously
> > as we perceive it, acording to Kara D. Federmeier.  It also applies
> > to the other senses.
> >
> >
> > Perceiving a New Category:
> > The Neurobiological Basis of Perceptual Categorization
> >
> > Kara D. Federmeier
> >
> > Department of Cognitive Science
> > University of California, San Diego
> >
> > Abstract: Current models and theories of categorization have tended
> > to assume that categorization and perception are separable
> > processes, with perception preceding categorization. In contrast,
> > this paper argues that categorization is a solution to a conflict
> > faced by all information processing systems and gives evidence
> > demonstrating that the visual system faces this conflict and solves
> > it by categorizing.
> >
> > Neurobiological data suggest that perceptual categorization begins
> > to take place in the earliest stages of visual processing and is
> > highly developed in visual areas such as the inferotemporal cortex.
> > Attention and experience can be shown to affect the neurophysiology
> > of visual cortex in a manner analogous to their effects on
> > categorization behavior. Together, these sources of evidence support
> > an inherent relationship between visual perception and perceptual
> > categorization. Based on this relationship, observed differences in
> > visual processing between the cerebral hemispheres can be used to
> > predict hemispheric differences for perceptual categorization, and
> > here evidence is described that supports those predictions. It is
> > concluded that categorization is rooted in perception and thus
> > constrained by the structure and function of the human brain.
> >
> > The full paper can be seen at:
> >
> > http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/cogsci/publications/97_05.pdf
> >
> > Grant
> >
> This is the way I have long seen it.  Existential phenomenology argues
> that existence, that is, presence-to-perception, is phenomenologically
> prior to interpretation, while hermeneutic phenomenology contends that
> interpretation is prior to existence; I have long personally resolved
> the disgreement by considering existence and interpretation to be
> phenomenologically co-primordial. >
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