Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume 6, Issue 12, 1 December 2002, Pages 495-496
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The skill of seeing: beyond the sensorimotor account?

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Abstract

How crucial a role do reason, memory and planning play alongside lower-level sensorimotor skills in our visual activity? Andy Clark has recently proposed a new skill-based account of seeing. This suggests there is more to perception than only the mastery of sensorimotor contingencies, as O'Regan, Noë and others have stressed in recent influential papers.

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