Mental representation: always delayed but not always ephemeral

Article Abstract:

The brain undergoes functions of perceptual 'filling in' or processes of mental 'rotation' on apparent motion. For example, a subject shown a vertical and a horizontal bar alternately at close time intervals will report the perception of a rotating bar even if it were not so. This perception of apparent motion might be termed as the brain's 'analog' processes that activate and correspond to intermediate states that would have happened in the external world. It shows that the brain goes through the trouble of 'filling in' for the adaptive value of representing external events in the most accurate, significant, complete, perceptual and memorable form.

Brain research, Mental representation, Consciousness, Mental representations

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Global pattern perception and temporal order judgments

Article Abstract:

Dennett and Kinsbourne's position that events are perceived rather than an ordered series of discrete elements or attributes is analyzed. Experiments with sensorimotor processes have indicated that subjects' reports on perception of temporal order are based on a familiar and recognized pattern by the brain. Empirical findings on these experiments yield a two-step process, that subjects recognize a familiar pattern based on previous experience and that their reports are analytical descriptions based on these experiences.

Time perception, Perception, Perception (Psychology)

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