Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): The Case of Complexity and Context-Sensitivity in Vision
I review the data on human visual perception that reveal the critical role played by non-visual contextual factors influencing visual activity. The global perspective that progressively emerges reveals that vision is sensitive to multiple couplings with other systems whose nature and levels of abstr...
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| description | I review the data on human visual perception that reveal the critical role played by non-visual contextual factors influencing visual activity. The global perspective that progressively emerges reveals that vision is sensitive to multiple couplings with other systems whose nature and levels of abstraction in science are highly variable. Contrary to some views where vision is immersed in modular hard-wired modules, rather independent from higher-level or other non-cognitive processes, converging data gathered in this article suggest that visual perception can be theorized in the larger context of biological, physical, and social systems with which it is coupled, and through which it is enacted. Therefore, any attempt to model complexity and multiscale couplings, or to develop a complex synthesis in the fields of mind, brain, and behavior, shall involve a systematic empirical study of both connectedness between systems or subsystems, and the embodied, multiscale and flexible teleology of subsystems. The conceptual model (MEM) that is introduced in this paper finally relates empirical evidence gathered from psychology to biocomputational data concerning the human brain. Both psychological and biocomputational descriptions of MEM are proposed in order to help fill in the gap between scales of scientific analysis and to provide an account for both the autopoiesis-driven search for information, and emerging perception. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9a00bf649d53414bb0fbe55ca6a8d0602022-12-22T03:53:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782014-12-01510.3389/fpsyg.2014.01425111980Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): The Case of Complexity and Context-Sensitivity in VisionÉric eLAURENT0University of Franche-ComtéI review the data on human visual perception that reveal the critical role played by non-visual contextual factors influencing visual activity. The global perspective that progressively emerges reveals that vision is sensitive to multiple couplings with other systems whose nature and levels of abstraction in science are highly variable. Contrary to some views where vision is immersed in modular hard-wired modules, rather independent from higher-level or other non-cognitive processes, converging data gathered in this article suggest that visual perception can be theorized in the larger context of biological, physical, and social systems with which it is coupled, and through which it is enacted. Therefore, any attempt to model complexity and multiscale couplings, or to develop a complex synthesis in the fields of mind, brain, and behavior, shall involve a systematic empirical study of both connectedness between systems or subsystems, and the embodied, multiscale and flexible teleology of subsystems. The conceptual model (MEM) that is introduced in this paper finally relates empirical evidence gathered from psychology to biocomputational data concerning the human brain. Both psychological and biocomputational descriptions of MEM are proposed in order to help fill in the gap between scales of scientific analysis and to provide an account for both the autopoiesis-driven search for information, and emerging perception.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01425/fullDehydrationMotivationPerceptionTheory of Minddynamical systemssituated cognition |
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| title | Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): The Case of Complexity and Context-Sensitivity in Vision |
| title_full | Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): The Case of Complexity and Context-Sensitivity in Vision |
| title_fullStr | Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): The Case of Complexity and Context-Sensitivity in Vision |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): The Case of Complexity and Context-Sensitivity in Vision |
| title_short | Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): The Case of Complexity and Context-Sensitivity in Vision |
| title_sort | multiscale enaction model mem the case of complexity and context sensitivity in vision |
| topic | Dehydration Motivation Perception Theory of Mind dynamical systems situated cognition |
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