2013 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Understanding Perceptual Representation
| Project/Area Number |
25770003
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
オデイ ジョン 東京大学, 教養学部, 准教授 (50534377)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 知覚哲学 / perceptual constancy / 知覚の恒常性 / 分析哲学 / analytic philosophy |
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| Research Abstract |
The main breakthrough on this project last year was the discovery of a problem with the use of quality spaces to describe the structure of perceptual experience. This points the way forward to a better description of that structure, and of the "phenomenal binding problem".
In Japan, I presented results on a problem with sound perception to the Tokyo Colloquium of Cognitve Phillosophy on May 7th, 2013 at the University of Tokyo, and then gave a talk on the structure in perception at the annual meeting of the Philosophy Society of Japan on Oct 10.
Internationally I talked at an interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Glasgow, UK on March 17th, 2014. While in Glasgow I also met with Professor Fiona Macpherson, a collaborator on this project, to discuss the problem of structure in perceptual experience. I then delivered a Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture on perceptual constancy and experiential structure on March 24th at the university of Birmingham.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
As per the initial grant application, I may have found a way of understanding the links between perceptual representations by using the idea of a quality space. This development, together with very useful feedback received at conferences in Japan and the UK, indicates that the research is progressing along the lines originally planned.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The next stage of the project will be an attempt to explore further the use of quality spaces in describing the structure of perceptual experience, and if possible even extend this idea to problem of the sense modalities. This will be based on the idea, which I have explored previously, that the sense modalities can be characterized partly according to a link between properties as perceived; for example, that we see shapes via colour differences or gradients. The idea that sense modalities can be partly defined in this way is a new and interesting way both to explore the nature of the sense modalities and the structure of perceptual representation.
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[Presentation] The Problem of Sound2013
Author(s)
John O'Dea
Organizer
Tokyo Colloquium of Cognitive Philosophy
Place of Presentation
University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo
Year and Date
20130507-20130507
