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Alva Noë
Department of Philosophy
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
Office phone: (831) 459-5723
Office fax: (813) 459-4880
Email: anoe@cats.ucsc.edu
Home page: http://www2.ucsc.edu/people/anoe/
Change Detection Research Interests
I am a philosopher of mind interested in the broad implications of work on change blindness as well as that of related phenomena such as inattentional blindness. In particular, I have criticized the often-made claim that such phenomena demonstrate that the visual world is a "grand illusion". In my view, the real significance of change blindness (and related phenomena) is the weight they carry against the idea that vision is a neural process whereby a detailed representation of the environment is produced from retinal input.
Other Research Interests
Inattentional blindness, perceptual completion, the neural correlates of consciousness for vision, the relation between perception and action, the philosophy of perception
Change Detection Publications
Pessoa, L., Thompson, E., & Noë, A. (1998) Finding out about filling in: a guide to perceptual completion for visual science and the philosophy of perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 (6), 723-802.
Noë, A., Pessoa, L., Thompson, E. (2000) Beyond the grand illusion: what change blindness really teaches us about vision. Visual Cognition, 7 (1-3), 93-106.
Noë, A. & O'Regan, J. K. (2000) Perception, attention and the grand illusion. Psyche 6 (15). URL: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v6/psyche-6-15-noe.html
Noë, A. (in press) Experience and the active mind. Synthese.
O'Regan, J. K. & Noë, A. (in press) A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5).
O'Regan, J. K. & Noë, A. (in press b) What it is like to see. Synthese.
Noë, A. & O'Regan, J. K. (in press). On the brain-basis of visual consciousness. In Noë, A. & Thompson, E. (eds.) Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
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