Phenomenal Causality in Biological Motion Perception

Audiovisual phenomenal causality.

We report three experiments in which visual or audiovisual displays depicted a surface (target) set into motion shortly after one or more events occurred. A visual motion was used as an initial event, followed directly either by the target motion or by one of three marker events: a collision sound, a blink of the target stimulus, or the blink together with the sound. The delay between the initi...

Motion Braking and the Perception of Causality*

Motion Braking and the Perception of Causality*

Motion Braking and the Perception of Causality*

Perception Preattentive and Phenomenal

Recent work in experimental psychology and neuroscience has revealed a rather surprising architecture for early (or preattentive) perceptual processes. This paper will describe some of the surprising features of that architecture, and how they bear on recent philosophical debates about the notion of phenomenal consciousness. I will argue that the common sense idea that states of phenomenal cons...