The Myth of Color Sensations, or How Not to See a Yellow Banana.
Topics in cognitive science January 1, 2017 Pete Mandik 20 citations
Color illusions are best explained by high-level, conceptualized knowledge about object identity, lighting conditions, and material composition, not by nonconceptual mental intermediaries called color sensations. The author argues against philosophical views that posit such sensations between the stimulus and perceptual judgment. These illusions do not require appealing to nonconceptual mental links in the causal chain leading to conceptualized color discriminations.