A Dilemma for ‘Selection-for-Action’

Buehler, Denis

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“… Cf. Buehler (: 142) who comments: “Individuals typically cannot suppress exogenous orientation to a stimulus, even if they know that the stimulus interferes with their ongoing actions, and even if they try to suppress the reflex.” Buehler cites Giordano, McElree, and Carrasco (: 8) and Carrasco (: 1488). …”

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Unconscious Perception Reconsidered

Phillips

2018

Philosophical Books

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“…Is (SfA*) prima facie plausible? Several authors have pointed out that common sense offers apparent counterexamples to (SfA*) (Watzl 2011;2017;Jennings & Nanay 2016;Buehler 2018a;2018b;Jennings 2020). Let us scrutinize the necessary and sufficient condition embedded in (SfA*) in turn.…”

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“…More importantly, lowering the requirements on selection will over-generate attentional episodes as per the sufficient condition. See Buehler (2018a) for discussion of this point. coupled to a response.…”

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“…More generally, the literature seems unequivocal in associating attentional selection (for further processing) with the N2pc component-no matter what kind of visual attention is at issue. Different kinds of attention, including spatial visual attention, might be allocated to a stimulus without this allocation being sufficient for attentional selection Zivony & Lamy 2016;2018a;2018b). 14 Any attempt to appeal to different kinds of visual attention as sufficient for selection would hence go against what appears to be the consensus in cognitive science.…”

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Seeing Circles: Inattentive Response-Coupling

Buehler

2023

Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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What is attention? On one influential position, attention constitutively is the selection of some stimulus for coupling with a response. Wayne Wu has proposed a master argument for this position that relies on the claim that cognitive science commits to an empirical sufficient condition (ESC), according to which, if a subject S perceptually selects (or response-couples) X to guide performance of some experimental task T, she therein attends to X. In this paper I show that this claim about cognitive science is false. Cognitive science allows for inattentive selection-for-task, or inattentive response-coupling. This means that Wu’s account is without independent support.

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“…But that is not the view of his that I discuss in this paper. For critical discussion of this other view, see Jennings and Nanay (2016), Buehler (2018a), and Buehler (2018b).…”

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Unity in the Scientific Study of Intellectual Attention

Fortney

2019

Can. J. of Philosophy

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I argue that using information from a cognitive representation to guide the performance of a primary task is sufficient for intellectual attention, and that this account of attention is endorsed by scientists working in the refreshing, n-back, and retro-cue paradigms. I build on the work of Wayne Wu (2014), who developed a similarly motivated account, but for perceptual attention rather than intellectual attention. The way that I build on Wu’s account provides a principled way of responding to Watzl’s (2011a, 2017) challenge to Wu, according to which Wu’s style of account is unintuitively broad. The fact that I find unity in the practice of science puts us in a position to resist the claim that scientists studying intellectual attention are frequently failing to study the same thing.

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A Dilemma for ‘Selection-for-Action’

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Unconscious Perception Reconsidered

Unconscious Perception Reconsidered

Seeing Circles: Inattentive Response-Coupling

Unity in the Scientific Study of Intellectual Attention

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