Theoretical critique highlights fundamental evidence for the visual binding problem in human perception, indicating that visual features require active integration across processing streams.
Scholte & de Hann (2025) have recently argued that there is no need to integrate information about different types of visual feature – the so-called visual binding problem. Here I argue that they are mistaken, and have ignored key evidence.
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Derek H. Arnold (2026) studied this question.
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