| 研究概要 |
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.
|
| 現在までの達成度 (区分) |
現在までの達成度 (区分)
2: おおむね順調に進展している
理由
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.
|
| 今後の研究の推進方策 |
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.
|
