Basic Sensible Qualities and the Structure of Appearance

Byrne, Alex; Hilbert, David

doi:10.1111/j.1533-6077.2008.00153.x

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“…Byrne and Hilbert, 2008). Ultimately, if the concept of primary odors is useful or a red herring, remains to be seen.…”

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Understanding smell—The olfactory stimulus problem

Auffarth

2013

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Please cite this article as: Auffarth, B., Understanding smell -the olfactory stimulus problem, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.06.009. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.Page 1 of 27 A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t -For the olfactory system, a topographic organization is disputed. -However, work on different species suggests a topography in olfaction.-We compare other modalities such as taste and color vision.-We discuss the utility of a categorization of smell perception. *Highlights (for review)Page 2 of 27 A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews The main problem with sensory processing is the difficulty in relating sensory input to physiological responses and perception. This is especially problematic at higher levels of processing, where complex cues elicit highly specific responses. In olfaction, this relationship is particularly obfuscated by the difficulty of characterizing stimulus statistics and perception. The core questions in olfaction are hence the so-called stimulus problem, which refers to the understanding of the stimulus, and the structure-activity and structure-odor relationships, which refer to the molecular basis of smell. It is widely accepted that the recognition of odorants by receptors is governed by the detection of physico-chemical properties and that the physical space is highly complex. Not surprisingly, ideas differ about how odor stimuli should be classified and about the very nature of information that the brain extracts from odors. Even though there are many measures for smell, there is none that accurately describes all aspects of it. Here, we summarize recent developments in the understanding of olfaction. We argue that an approach to olfactory function where information processing is emphasized could contribute to a high degree to our understanding of smell as a perceptual phenomenon emerging from neural computations. Further, we argue that combined analysis of the stimulus, biology, physiology, and behavior and perception can provide new insights into olfactory function. We hope that the reader can use this review as a competent guide and overview of research activities in olfactory physiology, psychophysics, computation, and psychology. We propose avenues for research, particularly in the systematic characteriza...

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“…Byrne and Hilbert, 2008). Ultimately, if the concept of primary odors is useful or a red herring, remains to be seen.…”

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Understanding smell—The olfactory stimulus problem

Auffarth

2013

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…Rather, a phenomenally uncomposed colour like unique yellow appears neither reddish nor greenish nor bluish, whereas a phenomenally composed colour like orange appears both reddish and yellowish (for further discussion, see e.g. Byrne and Hilbert 2008).…”

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Revelation and the Nature of Colour

Allen¹

2011

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“…9 For recent philosophical discussion on this topic, see in particular Hardin (1988Hardin ( , 2008; Byrne & Hilbert (2008);Allen (2011).…”

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Is Purple a Red and Blue Chessboard? Brentano on Colour Mixtures

Massin¹,

Hämmerli²

2017

The Monist

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Abstract. Can we maintain that purple seems composed of red and blue without giving up the impenetrability of the red and blue parts that compose it? Brentano thinks we can. Purple, according to him, is a chessboard of red and blue tiles which, although individually too small to be perceived, are together indistinctly perceived within the purple. After a presentation of Brentano's solution, we raise two objections to it. First, Brentano's solution commits him to unperceivable intentional objects (the chessboard's tiles). Second, his chessboard account fails in the end to explain the phenomenal spatial continuity of compound colours. We then sketch an alternative account, which, while holding fast to the phenomenal compoundedness of the purple and to the impenetrability of component colours, avoids introducing inaccessible intentional objects and compromising on the continuity of the purple. According to our proposal, instead of being indistinctly perceived spatial parts of the purple, red and blue are distinctly perceived nonspatial parts of it.Purple contains red and blue, orange contains red and yellow and (albeit more controversially) green contains yellow and blue. "Elementary colours" are colours such as yellow, blue, or red, which are not constituted by other colours but can themselves constitute other colours; "compound colours," by contrast, are colours such as green, purple, or orange, which are constituted by more elementary colours. A compound colour is a colour that consists of a mixture of two or more elementary colours different from itself. This paper aims to present and evaluate Brentano's theory of compound

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Basic Sensible Qualities and the Structure of Appearance

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

Understanding smell—The olfactory stimulus problem

Understanding smell—The olfactory stimulus problem

Revelation and the Nature of Colour

Is Purple a Red and Blue Chessboard? Brentano on Colour Mixtures

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