@article {Dilworth:September 2005:0039-7857:225,
author = "Dilworth, John",
title = "The Double Content of Perception",
journal = "Synthese",
volume = "146",
year = "September 2005",
abstract = "Clearly we can perceive both objects, and various aspects or appearances of those objects. But how should that complexity of perceptual content be explained or analyzed? I argue that perceptual representations normally have a double or two level nested structure of content, so as to adequately incorporate information both about contextual aspects Y(X) of an object X, and about the object X itself. On this double content (DC) view, perceptual processing starts with aspectual data Y
(X) as a higher level of content, which data does not itself provide lower level X-related content, but only an aspectually encoded form of such data. Hence the relevant perceptual data Y(X) must be ’de-contextualized’ or decoded to arrive at the X-related content X, resulting in a double content structure for perceptual data, that persists in higher-order conscious perceptual content. Some implications and applications of this DC view are also discussed.",
pages = "225-243(19)",
url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/synt/2005/00000146/00000003/00006209"
doi = "doi:10.1007/s11229-004-6209-3"
}