N. Gangopadhyay, M. Madary, and F. Spencer (eds.), Perception, action, and consciousness, Sensorimotor dynamics and the two visual systems

Ellen Fridland

pp. 899-906

in: Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences 12 (4), 2013.

Abstract

Perception, Action, and Consciousness is a volume devoted to exploring the tensions and potential routes for reconciliation between two types of approaches to visual perception: the sensorimotor, action-oriented view of perception1 and the two visual systems hypothesis.2 These views hold conflicting positions as to the contribution that action makes to the qualitative character of a perceptual event. The action-oriented or sensorimotor views represented here, to varying degrees, hold that action plays a central, even constitutive, role in determining the phenomenal character of visual experience.3In contrast, the two visual systems model is committed to the idea that action and visual perception are processed independently and thus remain functionally distinct.