Perceptual Learning: Policy Insights From Basic Research to Real-World Applications

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We recently put forward an argument, the Unfolding Argument (UA), that integrated information theory (IIT) and other causal structure theories are either already falsified or unfalsifiable, which provoked significant criticism. It seems that we and the cri ...

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Perceptual Learning: Policy Insights From Basic Research to Real-World Applications

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