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  1. Harman (1990) and Tye (2000).

  2. Proffitt et al. (1995) ; Li and Durgin (2010). See also Durgin et al. (2010). The last two articles contain a number of references to other work on systematic distortions in the perception of slant.

    Other examples of systematic perceptual misrepresentation are afforded by the work of Marissa Carrasco and her colleagues. More specifically, it appears that visual attention can systematically distort perception of color saturation, contrast, speed, and size. Thus, for example, Carrasco shows that by attending to a low-contrast Gabor patch, one can make it seem to be identical in point of contrast with another, unattended patch, even though the actual degrees of contrast are quite different. The natural interpretation of cases of this sort is that attention causes a representation to be tokened twice (once for each patch), even though it veridically represents only one of them. See, e.g. Carrasco (2009).

  3. Li and Durgin, p. 1.

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I have received valuable help from David Bennett in preparing this Précis.

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Hill, C.S. Précis of Consciousness . Philos Stud 161, 483–487 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9813-3

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