According to an image theory of classical conditioning and a theory of images, after viewing a visual complex consisting of S1 and S2, focusing on S1 should lead to two types of temporary brain events (Ts), Ta1, produced directly by receptor stimulation, and Ts2, produced through learning by way of S1. It is assumed that in everyday perception Ts1 and Ts2 combine by a binocular-fusion-like process. This idea makes sense, partly because both in everyday perception and in binocular fusion Ts1 and Ts2 appear to combine to yield a report of a single, composite, smoothly integrated whole. The present proposal is compared to Hebb's and Konorski's views of perception.
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