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    It is not the case that The falsity of the linearity assumption does not undermine the meaningfulness of the early/late debate in selective attention research.

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    • 1.The falsity of the linearity assumption about processes supporting personal-level awareness creates only methodological problems.
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    • 2.Methodological problems do not, by themselves, imply that a debate between competing theories was misconceived.
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    • 1.Early and late selection theories make distinct, empirically distinguishable predictions about when stimulus features influence perceptual processing, independent of linearity assumptions.
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    • 2.Marr's tri-level framework shows that computational-level questions about what a system does remain meaningful even when implementational assumptions prove incorrect.
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    • 3.The early/late debate concerns the functional architecture of attention, a level of analysis that survives revision of substrate-level assumptions about neural processing stages.
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    • 1.Dennett's multiple drafts model shows that rejecting strict serial processing preserves substantive theoretical disagreements about when selection occurs relative to semantic analysis.
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    • 2.The phenomenological difference between Broadbent's capacity-limited filter and Deutsch-Norman's post-categorical selection constitutes a genuine theoretical disagreement about cognitive architecture, not merely a methodological dispute.
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