# Gabriele's thing- Corrections - Pictures - Synthese Revised **Opening (not a real abstract):** The most important question concerning picture perception is (1) What perceptual state are we in when we see an object in a picture? Here I maintain the classical philosophical terminology used in the literature in saying that our visual system uses perceptual representations and thus perceptually represents certain entities as having certain properties; it perceptually attributes certain properties to certain entities 1. So, (1) can be reformulated: (1) what kinds of properties does our visual system attribute to the depicted object?2 In order to answer (1), philosophers have used the results of the two visual systems model, according to which our visual system can be divided into two streams, a ventral stream for object recognition, allowing one to perceive from an allocentric frame of reference, and a dorsal stream for **Authors:** [[Gabriele Ferretti]]