Why vision and hearing dominate experience: bigger cortical regions, not a saliency system
Sauers_ · x · 2026-10-01
神经科学家 wmayner 转发讨论意识感官占比问题：视觉与听觉之所以在体验中占主导，并非存在独立的「感官相关性系统」来提升其显著性（虽然通用注意力机制确实存在），而是因为视觉和听觉由远大于其他感官的皮层区域支撑。作者观点是这些皮层区域直接构成意识——即视觉/听觉体验的物质基底，因此它们占据体验的更大比重，只因在物理基底中占比更大。其实验室有相关论文支撑该论断。
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