Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception

French, Craig

Abstract

Ordinary cases of object seeing involve the visual perception of space and spatial location. But does seeing an object require such spatial perception? An empirical challenge to the idea that it does comes from reflection upon Bálint's syndrome, for some suppose that in Bálint's syndrome subjects can see objects without seeing space or spatial location. In this article, I question whether the empirical evidence available to us adequately supports this understanding of Bálint's syndrome, and explain how the aforementioned empirical challenge can be resisted.

Citation

French, C. (in press). Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception. Mind and Language, https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12187

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 23, 2018
• Online Publication Date: May 17, 2018
• Deposit Date: May 31, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: May 18, 2020
• Journal: Mind & Language
• Print ISSN: 0268-1064
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-0017
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12187
• Keywords: Visual perception; Spatial perception; Bálint’s syndrome; Object seeing; Visual experience
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/933057
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12187
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: French C. Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception. Mind Lang. 2018. which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12187. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.