Autoren:	Kohler, Axel
Titel:	The illusion of the given and its role in vision research : a commentary on Heiko Hecht
Online-Publikationsdatum:	29-Nov-2016
Erscheinungsdatum:	2015
Sprache des Dokuments:	Englisch
Zusammenfassung/Abstract:	Illusions in vision and other modalities are captivating displays of the virtual nature of our subjective world. For this reason, illusions have been an important subject of scientific and artistic endeavors. In his target article, Heiko Hecht discusses the utility of the illusion concept and arrives at the negative conclusion that the traditional understanding of illusions as a discrepancy between world and perception is misguided. In his opinion, the more interesting and revealing cases are when the discrepancy is noticed and accompanies the perceptual state, or when, in the cognitive domain, the discrepancies become exceedingly large, but go unnoticed nonetheless. In this commentary, I argue that Hecht’s criticism of the illusion concept is interesting and deserves further study. But at the current stage, I don’t see that the model captures the essential features of illusory states. The processes on which Hecht focuses can be considered metacognitive appraisals of the respective sensory events, an interesting topic by itself. In the second part and as an overview, I review how research on the classical apparent-motion illusion has shaped our understanding of the neural underpinnings of motion perception and consciousness in general.
DDC-Sachgruppe:	100 Philosophie 100 Philosophy
Veröffentlichende Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organisationseinheit:	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie
Veröffentlichungsort:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-148
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-552981
Version:	Published version
Publikationstyp:	Buchbeitrag
Nutzungsrechte:	Urheberrechtsschutz
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten:	https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Quelle:	Open MIND Metzinger, Thomas
Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer:	Kap. 18(C)
Verlag:	MIND Group
Verlagsort:	Frankfurt am Main
Erscheinungsdatum:	2015
URL der Originalveröffentlichung:	http://dx.doi.org/10.15502/9783958570528
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung:	10.15502/9783958570528
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:	JGU-Publikationen