{"pk":49809,"title":"Do perceivers contribute to object perception?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we argue that the contributions of perceivers to object perception can substantially affect what objects are represented in perceptual experience. To capture the scalar nature of these perceiver-contingent contributions, we discuss two grades of subject-dependency in object perception. The first grade, weak subject-dependency, concerns attentional changes to perceptual content like, for instance, when a perceiver is turning her head, plugging her ears, or her attention is primed for a particular cue.  The second grade, strong subject-dependency, concerns generating perceptual objects whose existence depends upon their perceivers' sensory contributions. We offer evidence from the future-directed anticipation of perceptual experts and from the feature binding of synesthetes to exemplify this nonstandard, subject-dependent form of object perception. We conclude that strongly subject-dependent perceptual objects are more than mere material objects, but are rather a necessary combination of material objects with the contributions of a perceiving subject.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Cognitive Neuroscience; Philosophy; Psychology; Perception; Representation; Sensory Processing; Vision"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8057r6jx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Spencer","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ivy","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Warsaw","department":""},{"first_name":"Aleksandra","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mroczko-Wasowicz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Warsaw","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49809/galley/37771/download/"}]}