Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception

Ordinary cases of object seeing involve the visual perception of space and spatial location. But does seeing an object require such spatial perception? An empirical challenge to the idea that it does comes from reflection upon Bálint's syndrome, for some suppose that in Bálint's syndrome s...

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Main Author: French, Craig
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Published: Wiley 2018
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description Ordinary cases of object seeing involve the visual perception of space and spatial location. But does seeing an object require such spatial perception? An empirical challenge to the idea that it does comes from reflection upon Bálint's syndrome, for some suppose that in Bálint's syndrome subjects can see objects without seeing space or spatial location. In this article, I question whether the empirical evidence available to us adequately supports this understanding of Bálint's syndrome, and explain how the aforementioned empirical challenge can be resisted.
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spelling nottingham-521472020-05-04T19:36:53Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52147/ Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception French, Craig Ordinary cases of object seeing involve the visual perception of space and spatial location. But does seeing an object require such spatial perception? An empirical challenge to the idea that it does comes from reflection upon Bálint's syndrome, for some suppose that in Bálint's syndrome subjects can see objects without seeing space or spatial location. In this article, I question whether the empirical evidence available to us adequately supports this understanding of Bálint's syndrome, and explain how the aforementioned empirical challenge can be resisted. Wiley 2018-05-17 Article PeerReviewed French, Craig (2018) Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception. Mind & Language . ISSN 1468-0017 Visual perception; Spatial perception; Bálint’s syndrome; Object seeing; Visual experience https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12187 doi:10.1111/mila.12187 doi:10.1111/mila.12187
spellingShingle Visual perception; Spatial perception; Bálint’s syndrome; Object seeing; Visual experience
French, Craig
Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception
title Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception
title_full Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception
title_fullStr Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception
title_full_unstemmed Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception
title_short Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception
title_sort bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception
topic Visual perception; Spatial perception; Bálint’s syndrome; Object seeing; Visual experience
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