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V. V. Stolin
To cite this article: V. V. Stolin (1975) Problems of Meaning in Perception and the Units of the
Sensory Image, Soviet Psychology, 13:3, 33-49
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34 SOVIET PSYCHOLOGY
were - but then, with the left hand, they would retrieve
the match from a series of objects. After each correct
response, the subject was asked what had been retrieved.
All replied they didn't know."
Consequently, visual recognition of semantically relatively rich
objects is possible, and even intermodal transfer (tactile selec-
tion), without objective o r subjective speech control!
Gazzaniga's data, which directly indicate the possibility of
"speechless" object perception, accord well with the results
of clinical observations of patients with local brain damage.
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meaning that they share. The sensory form has its own orga-
nization, evidently basically subordinating topological principles.
The laws of sensory organization m a y also have an effect on
the conditions of subjective perception if we organize it in a
particular way. Some laws of perceptual organization described
by Gestalt psychologists, such as its subordination to factors
of "good line," "closedness," and "inclusion without a remain-
der," are, from the viewpoint we a r e developing, nothing but
laws of sensory (not perceptual) organization that appear with-
in a subject perception in which for the observer there is an
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