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dc.contributor.authorVishwanath, Dhanraj
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-09T12:30:02Z
dc.date.available2021-04-09T12:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-01
dc.identifier.citationVishwanath , D 2021 , ' The conscious awareness of visual space : a tripartite encoding model ' , Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice , vol. First Online . https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000280en
dc.identifier.issn2326-5523
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 271487980
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 123be234-5094-4ab1-bf8d-f1ccda0928cd
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8095-0537/work/92019879
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000669745600005
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85125218233
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/22996
dc.descriptionDhanraj Vishwanath was supported by a Leverhulme Foundation Grant RPG-2016-269.en
dc.description.abstractThe prevailing model of 3D vision proposes that the visual system recovers a single internally consistent representation of physical 3D space based on a process of ideal-observer probabilistic inference. A significant challenge for this model has been in explaining our subjective awareness of visual space. Here it is argued that integrating phenomenological observations, empirical data, evolutionary logic, and neurophysiological evidence leads to the conjecture that the human conscious awareness of visual space is underwritten by multiple, sometimes mutually inconsistent, spatial encodings. By assessing four primary competencies in the conscious awareness of space, three major types of spatial encodings are conjectured. Among the most primitive of these is proposed to support the competency of the conscious awareness of distance at an ambulatory scale and is hypothesized to originate in medial temporal areas in allocortex. The second is proposed to support the competency of awareness of object layout and 3D shape without scale (operationally defined as relative depth) hypothesized to have evolved from primitive encodings that provide a depth-ordered segmentation of the visual field. The third encoding is proposed to support the competency of fine-grained awareness of intra- and inter-object distances and object scale in near space (operationally defined as scaled depth), likely involving the posterior parietal cortex and is conjectured to underlie the phenomenology of tangibility, spatial separation (negative space) and object realness that is often referred to as stereopsis. The first and third encoding are conjectured to contribute to the feeling of spatial immersion and presence.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPsychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practiceen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2021, American Psychological Association. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000280en
dc.subjectStereopsisen
dc.subjectSpace perceptionen
dc.subjectDepth perceptionen
dc.subjectDistance perceptionen
dc.subjectImmersion and presenceen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectRC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatryen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.subject.lccRC0321en
dc.titleThe conscious awareness of visual space : a tripartite encoding modelen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorThe Leverhulme Trusten
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000280
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2021-04-01
dc.identifier.grantnumberRPG-2016-269en


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