Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

I examine the representational formats of perceptual states andcognitive states related to perception, such as perceptual beliefsstored in long term memory, and argue, first, that despite theirimportant differences they both have an iconic ingredient.Then, I explain how this common iconic component ofperceptual and cognitive contents allow cognitive states tomodulate perceptual processing focusing on a recent argumentmade by Burnston (2017) to the effect that owing to theirdiffering representational formats cognition cannot affectdirectly perception.