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social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > consciousness > content of perceptual experience

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content of perceptual experience  

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  • Suppose a subject recognizes George Washington on a dollar bill. It is an open question whether this is part of the subject's perceptual (in this case, visual) experience that the person depicted is George Washington, or whether all that is visually experienced are colors and shapes, with the judgment that it is George Washington occurring farther downstream (later in the perceptual system). [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Content of Perceptual Experience]

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