Citation

Briscoe RE. Cogn. Sci. 2010; 34(8): 1530-1542.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01121.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Mark Changizi et al. (2008) claim that it is possible systematically to organize more than 50 kinds of illusions in a 7 × 4 matrix of 28 classes. This systematization, they further maintain, can be explained by the operation of a single visual processing latency correction mechanism that they call "perceiving the present" (PTP). This brief report raises some concerns about the way a number of illusions are classified by the proposed systematization. It also poses two general problems--one empirical and one conceptual--for the PTP approach.

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