TY - JOUR
T1 - We are better off without perfect perception
AU - Brenner, E.
AU - Smeets, J. B J
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Stoffregen & Bardy's target article is based on the assumption that our senses' ultimate purpose is to provide us with perfect information about the outside world. We argue that it is often more important that information be available quickly than that it be perfect. Consequently our nervous system processes different aspects of information about our surrounding as separately as possible. The separation is not between the senses, but between separate aspects of our surrounding. This results in inconsistencies between judgments: sometimes because different frames of reference are used. Such inconsistencies are fundamental to the way the information is picked up, however, and hence cannot be avoided with clearer instructions to the subjects.
AB - Stoffregen & Bardy's target article is based on the assumption that our senses' ultimate purpose is to provide us with perfect information about the outside world. We argue that it is often more important that information be available quickly than that it be perfect. Consequently our nervous system processes different aspects of information about our surrounding as separately as possible. The separation is not between the senses, but between separate aspects of our surrounding. This results in inconsistencies between judgments: sometimes because different frames of reference are used. Such inconsistencies are fundamental to the way the information is picked up, however, and hence cannot be avoided with clearer instructions to the subjects.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X01243945
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X01243945
M3 - Comment / Letter to the editor
AN - SCOPUS:0034903001
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 24
SP - 215
EP - 216
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
IS - 2
ER -