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What are the prospects for a higher‐order stimulus theory of perception?
Author(s) -
EPSTEIN WILLIAM
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1977.tb00273.x
Subject(s) - percept , perception , stimulus (psychology) , psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , cognitive science , neuroscience
.— Gibson has advocated a pure higher‐order stimulus theory of perception. Johansson has agreed that the stimuli for perception are higher order variables of stimulation. However, unlike Gibson, Johansson assigns an important role to decoding principles in determining perception. Evidence is reviewed to show that percept‐percept relations are involved in perception. On this ground it was argued that the prospects for a successful pure‐stimulus theory are poor and that Johansson's views should be elaborated to include various types of decoding principles.