Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Effects of Perception on Perception
The influence of vision o on the general ideas is pretty clear. It isn't just didactic really. I mean, i think that's the way i see things, so not ye. Another thing in suc a background. As i my second year psychology course as an undergraduate, the thing that flipped me into doing third year psychology, switching back to natural sciences. And i was a pretty pretty broad brush, but it was taken by a psychologist called john mollan, who works on color vision. He spent so much time telling us amazing things about perception,. and giving us lots of amazing perceptual demonstrations. You really have an intuition for how it works, and it really doesn't work like
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