Do we know what we see?
Do we know what we see?
- July 31, 2014
- Research by George Sperling, cognitive sciences Distinguished Professor, is featured in The Wall Street Journal July 31, 2014
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From The Wall Street Journal:
A new paper in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences by the New York University
philosopher Ned Block demonstrates just how hard it is to tell if we really know what
we see. … Prof. Block focuses on a classic experiment originally done in 1960 by George
Sperling, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Irvine.
For the full story, please visit http://online.wsj.com/articles/do-we-know-what-we-see-an-experiment-sows....
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