2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Understanding Perceptual Representation
| Project/Area Number |
25770003
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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 | 知覚の哲学 |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the past year, I worked on the idea of dimensions in experience. We are familiar with the idea that colour has dimensions, given by the colour solid, a 3-dimensional structure with axes for hue, brightness and saturation. But as for colour generally, there is confusion as to whether it is physical colour that has these dimensions, or our experience of colour. There is also confusion as to how dimensions are reflected in perceptual experience. For example, the idea of dimensions originates in multi-dimensional scaling, which is one way of measuring and representing similarity judgements (or matching judgements) in terms of relative distances in an abstract space. The dimensions of this space are simply ways of representing distance, but are often reflexively taken as concrete aspects of experience itself. To clarify the relationship between the dimensions of features experienced, and experience itself, is therefore an important task. A manuscript paper which sets out to do this is currently in preparation.
Finally, I organised an international workshop on perception at the University of Tokyo. This workshop brought together both established figures in perception research, such as Fiona Macpherson, Derek Brown, and Aleksandra Mroczko-Wasowicz, and early career researchers. The workshop was held over two days, and seven papers were given.
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