Coherence (of perceptual experience) Author: Elena Pasquinelli [INSTNICOD], Giovanna Varni [DIST] Contributors: none Current version (on 2005-07-04) Not only perceptual experience is usually multimodal, but the integration of information from different sensory modalities allows subject to get a consistent, reinforced knowledge about the surrounding world, thus giving rise to behaviourally relevant information. This added value of multisensoriality for the production of behaviourally efficient actions has been understood in the framework of new interfaces, such as enactive interfaces. However, multimodal interfaces put perceivers in the condition of experiencing perceptual conflicts that put believability at risk. The existence of spontaneous solutions to perceptual and cognitive conflicts put in evidence the adaptive value of coherence for adaptive and epistemic behaviours. The conflict or disaccord between experiences is a form of inconsistency, thus of violation of the coherence of experience. Coherence is defined as a consistent relation of members of a set. A set is coherent if and only if each member of the set is consistent with the other members and each member is implied by the others. Consistency is defined as an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another. Coherence is then an internal characteristic, which does not imply the confrontation with conditions external to the set. Violations of the coherence of experience can be both synchronic and diachronic: violations of diachronic coherence arise when previously acquired knowledge or previous experiences are inconsistent with actually gathered information, thus when actual experience is in disaccord with some expectation violations of synchronic coherence depend on the contradiction between two or more synchronic experiences; examples are represented by intersensory conflicts and

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In both cases the awareness that coherence is violated alerts the perceiver to the presence of some error and a reaction of surprise arises. This reaction has an epistemic value for the perceiver. However, different mechanisms exist for maintaining coherence in presence of discrepant perceptual stimuli and even in presence of cognitive dissonances [Stein & Meredith, 1993; Bruner & Postman, 1949; Festinger, 1957]. It is hence proposed that coherence has a positive adaptive value and that violations of coherence present a disruptive effect on adaptive behaviors [Stein & Meredith, 1993; Bruner & Postman, 1949].

References: Bruner, J., & Postman, L. (1949). On the perception of incongruity: A paradigm. Journal of Personality, 18, 206-223. Festinger, L. A. (1957). A theory of cognitive dissonance. Evanston, IL: Row & Peterson.

Stein, B. E., & Meredith, M. E. (1993). The merging of the senses. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

References: none Related items: none Binding problem Cognitive dissonance Cross-modal perception Perceptual conflicts

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Coherence (of perceptual experience)

In both cases the awareness that coherence is violated alerts the perceiver to the presence of some error and a reaction of surprise arises. This reaction has an epistemic value for the perceiver. However, different mechanisms exist for maintaining coherence in presence of discrepant perceptual stimuli and even in presence ...

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