Evaluating cognitive penetrability of perception across the senses
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- Vetter, Petra ORCID Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Badde, Stephanie ORCID Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
- Ferrè, Elisa Raffaella School of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
- Seubert, Janina Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden
- Shinn-Cunningham, Barbara Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- 2024
Submitted to:
- Nature Reviews Psychology. - Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2024, vol. 3, p. 804-820
Cognitive penetrability
Perception
Cognition
Vision
Audition
Somatosensation
Proprioception
Pain
Vestibular perception
Chemosensation
Olfaction
Gustation
Chemesthesis
English
A central question about the human mind is whether perception is an encapsulated process purely driven by sensory information or whether perception is intricately linked with cognitive processes. This debate about the cognitive penetrability of perception is discussed in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy. So far, the debate has centered on vision, without major attempts to examine other senses. In this Review, we provide an overview of the key empirical evidence about cognitive penetrability of perception in vision, audition, somatosensation (including proprioception and pain perception), vestibular perception, and chemosensation (gustation, chemesthesis and olfaction). We conclude that many, but not all, of the senses are cognitively penetrable. Specifically, cognitive penetrability seems to vary with the extent to which a sense is intrinsically multimodal, receives indirect cognitive influences, and whether hedonic evaluation is an integral aspect of the perceptual experience. We suggest that the debate about cognitive penetrability needs to be more differentiated with respect to the sensory modality of the perceptual experience and the diversity of cognitive influences on that modality.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de Psychologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Psychology
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- Open access status
- green
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- DOI 10.1038/s44159-024-00382-1
- ISSN 2731-0574
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/336211
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