Download or read book A Developmental Investigation of Perceptual Stability written by Zelda (Sobel) Klapper and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perceptual Learning written by Barbara Dosher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and integrated introduction to the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning, focusing on the visual domain. Practice or training in perceptual tasks improves the quality of perceptual performance, often by a substantial amount. This improvement is called perceptual learning (in contrast to learning in the cognitive or motor domains), and it has become an active area of research of both theoretical and practical significance. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning, focusing on the visual domain. Perceptual Learning explores the tradeoff between the competing goals of system stability and system adaptability, signal and noise, retuning and reweighting, and top-down versus bottom-down processes. It examines and evaluates existing research and potential future directions, including evidence from behavior, physiology, and brain imaging, and existing perceptual learning applications, with a focus on important theories and computational models. It also compares visual learning to learning in other perceptual domains, and considers the application of visual training methods in the development of perceptual expertise and education as well as in remediation for limiting visual conditions. It provides an integrated treatment of the subject for students and researchers and for practitioners who want to incorporate perceptual learning into their practice.Practice or training in perceptual tasks improves the quality of perceptual performance, often by a substantial amount. This improvement is called perceptual learning, in contrast with learning in the cognitive or motor domains. Perceptual learning has been a very active area of research of both theoretical and practical interest. Research on perceptual learning is of theoretical significance in illuminating plasticity in adult perceptual systems, and in understanding the limitations of human information processing and how to improve them. It is of practical significance as a potential method for the development of perceptual expertise in the normal population, for its potential in advancing development and supporting healthy aging, and for noninvasive amelioration of deficits in challenged populations by training. Perceptual learning has become an increasingly important topic in biomedical research. Practitioners in this area include science disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, computer sciences, and optometry, and developers in applied areas of learning game design, cognitive development and aging, and military and biomedical applications. Commercial development of training products, protocols, and games is a multi-billion dollar industry. Perceptual learning provides the basis for many of the developments in these areas. This book is written for anyone who wants to understand the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning or to apply the technology of perceptual learning to the development of training methods and products. Our aim is to provide an introduction to those researchers and students just entering this exciting field, to provide a comprehensive and integrated treatment of the phenomena and the theories of perceptual learning for active perceptual learning researchers, and to describe and develop the basic techniques and principles for readers who want to successfully incorporate perceptual learning into applied developments. The book considers the special challenges of perceptual learning that balance the competing goals of system stability and system adaptability. It provides a systematic treatment of the major phenomena and models in perceptual learning, the determinants of successful learning and of specificity and transfer. The book provides a cohesive consideration of the broad range of perceptual learning through the theoretical framework of incremental learning of reweighting evidence that supports successful task performance. It provides a detailed analysis of the mechanisms by which perceptual learning improves perceptual limitations, the relationship of perceptual learning and the critical period of development, and the semi-supervised modes of learning that dominate perceptual learning. It considers limitations and constraints on learning multiple tasks and stimuli simultaneously, the implications of training at high or low levels of performance accuracy, and the importance of feedback to perceptual learning. The basis of perceptual learning in physiology is discussed along with the relationship of visual perceptual learning to learning in other sensory domains. The book considers the applications of perceptual learning in the development of expertise, in education and gaming, in training during development and aging, and applications to remediation of mental health and vision disorders. Finally, it applies the phenomena and models of perceptual learning to considerations of optimizing training.
Download or read book A Developmental Investigation of Perceptual Filtering Using Errors in Memory and Sorting Speed as Dependent Measures written by Richard Lorentz Smith and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Perception and Action III written by Benoit G. Bardy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, a posterbook based on the seventh biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Psychology, is a collection of compact empirical and/or theoretical articles on the study of perception and action.
Download or read book Perceptual Modification written by Robert B. Welch and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perceptual Modification: Adapting to Altered Sensory Environments is about the study of human perception using a particular research strategy: the systematic alteration of vision or audition. It is assumed that by observing how the sensory apparatus copes with this disturbance it will be possible to formulate valuable hypotheses about the structure and development of ""normal"" perception and perceptual-motor coordination. The specific goals of this book are, first, to organize the vast and confusing literature on adaptation to perceptual rearrangement and, second, to assess its contribution to the understanding of ""normal"" perception and perceptual learning. The book begins with discussions of adaptation to small prism-induced displacements of the visual field. Separate chapters follow on the proposition that adaptation to prismatic displacement and other forms of rearrangement is actually a form of learning; adaptation to inverted and reversed vision; optical tilt; illusory motions of the visual field; size-depth distortions; and distortions of form. Subsequent chapters deal with studies of auditory rearrangement; examine individual and interspecies differences in adaptability; and the study of adaptation to the visual distortions encountered by the underwater observer. The book is written for researchers and graduate students in experimental psychology. It will be of value and interest whether the reader is a specialist in the area of perceptual modification, or indeed a generalist.
Download or read book The Study of Behavioral Development written by Joachim F. Wohlwill and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Child Psychology Series: The Study of Behavioral Development concerns the formulation of general laws of development, transcending the realm of the development of the individual from infancy to maturity. This book provides a systematic treatment of problems of research design, strategy, and data analysis that relate specifically to the study of developmental changes in behavior. The topics discussed include developmental psychology in the 1970s, age variable in psychological research, and programmatic view of the task of developmental psychology. The problems of measurement and quantification in developmental psychology, correlational methods in the study of developmental change, and experimental manipulation of developmental change are also elaborated. This publication is recommended for psychologists, specialists, and students learning the nature of behavioral change.
Download or read book Perceptual Organization Stability Attraction and Volition written by Leroy H. Pelton and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Perception and Action XII written by Tehran J. Davis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1991, the edited book series Studies in Perception and Action has appeared in conjunction with the biennial International Conference of Perception and Action (ICPA). ICPA provides a forum for researchers and academics who share a common interest in ecological psychology to come together, present new research, and foster ideas towards the advancement of the field. This volume highlights research presented at the 17th ICPA meeting in the summer of 2013. The short papers and empirical articles presented in this book represent the contributions of researchers and laboratories from across the globe. The reader will find new, cutting-edge research on a wide variety of topics in perception and action. This volume will especially appeal to those that are interested in James J. Gibson's ecological approach to psychology, as well as, more broadly, students and researchers of visual and haptic perception, perceptual development, human movement dynamics, human factors, and social processes.
Download or read book Issues in Perception Cognition Development and Personality 2013 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Personality Research. The editors have built Issues in Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Personality Research in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Download or read book Issues in Perception Cognition Development and Personality 2011 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality. The editors have built Issues in Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development Volume 1 written by J. Gavin Bremner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now part of a two-volume set, the fully revised and updated second edition of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, Volume 1: Basic Research provides comprehensive coverage of the basic research relating to infant development. Updated, fully-revised and expanded, this two-volume set presents in-depth and cutting edge coverage of both basic and applied developmental issues during infancy Features contributions by leading international researchers and practitioners in the field that reflect the most current theories and research findings Includes editor commentary and analysis to synthesize the material and provide further insight The most comprehensive work available in this dynamic and rapidly growing field
Download or read book Studies in Perception and Action II written by S. Stavros Valenti and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive view of posters presented at the VIIth International Conference on Event Perception and Action. Arranged in order of appearance of their corresponding symposia on the conference program, this collection of 80 miniature articles on event perception and action represents the work of 136 researchers from 13 countries.
Download or read book Age related Deficits in Perceptual Stability written by Senay Aydin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's population is ageing, which represents challenges and opportunities concerning different aspects of life. Some older people exhibit various perceptual and cognitive declines, which are related to their inability to construct a stable representation of the external world, it being usually ambiguous and degraded. These declines require thorough research in order to understand their cortical mechanisms. Changes in perceptual stability as a function of ageing were explored in this PhD work using methods of psychophysics, visual evoked potentials, and eye- movement recordings. Specifically studied were attentional control in perceptual rivalry, the ability to construct a stable and efficient internal representation of degraded words and finally, saccadic suppression as an important contributory factor to the underlying perceptual stability of the visual world during saccadic eye movements. Perceptual rivalry, produced by an ambiguous Rubin vase-faces figure, was slower in older people during passive viewing than in young participants. Additionally, older adults, in contrast to young adults, were unable to hold the dominant percept longer than in passive viewing. Using current models of perceptual rivalry and studies of age-related changes in cortical activity, the increased response gain in older adults might be a possible factor leading to prolonged dominance durations in older people during passive viewing as well as impaired ability to hold the dominant percept longer. Visual evoked potentials, elicited by frequency-tagged stimulation, showed that perceptual rivalry under passive viewing caused in both age group suppression of visual evoked potentials to a contrast-modulated pattern. This finding is only true for the vase percept, when the vase percept was not dominant. Thus, the mechanism, underlying perceptual rivalry under passive viewing in early visual cortical areas, could be inhibition of neuronal populations associated with the non-dominant percept, rather than excitation of neuronal populations, corresponding to the dominant percept. Attentional control of holding the dominant percept caused an enhancement of the visual evoked potentials, representing the dominant percept, in young subjects but not in older people. Holding and switching the dominant percept also produced enhancement of gamma activity, recorded with electrodes over the occipital and parietal cortices, only in young adults. These results could be related to age-related deficits in top-down modulated attentional and figure-ground segregation processes. A novel paradigm for recognising words embedded in positional letter noise and a model for estimating internal noise components were developed. Older people showed noise-exclusion deficits when reading normal words and reversed words, but not when reading nonwords. These deficits suggest that older people may experience perceptual instability of words due to inefficient noisy perceptual representations of words. This method has the potential for use as a tool in the clinical testing of noise- exclusion deficits in normal and pathological ageing and in children with reading dysfunctions. Investigation of age-related changes in saccadic suppression revealed for the first time that older adults experienced reduced and delayed saccadic suppression compared to young adults. This could result in perceiving instability of the external world and thus affect their mobility and performance in everyday environments. The results of this thesis provide evidence of age-related deficits in the ability of older people to voluntarily perceive a stable dominant percept during perceptual rivalry, to efficiently exclude positional noise during reading degraded words and to suppress visual information during saccadic eye movements. Although these deficits involve different cortical mechanisms, the underlying cause for them could be related to impairments in inhibitory mechanisms at various cortical processing stages.
Download or read book The Development Of Sensory Motor And Cognitive Capacities In Early Infancy written by George Butterworth and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the development of human infants has revealed remarkable capacities in recent years. Instead of stressing the limitations of the newborn, the modern approach is now more optimistically based on an assessment of the adaptive capabilities of the infant. Innate endowment, coupled with interaction with the physical and social environment, enables a developmental transition from processes deeply rooted in early perception and action to the cognitive and language abilities typical of the toddler.; This book reviews a number of issues in early human development. It includes a reconceptualization of the role of perception at the origins of development, a reconciliation of psychophysical and ecological approaches to early face perception, and building bridges between biological and psychological aspects of development in terms of brain structure and function. Topics covered include basic exploratory processes of early visual systems in early perception and action; face perception in newborns, species typical aspects of human communication, imitation, perception of the phonetic structure of speech, origins of the pointing gesture, handedness origins and development, theoretical contributions on perception and cognition, implicit and explicit knowledge in babies; sensory-motor coordination and cognition, information processing and cognition, perception, habituation and the development of intelligence from infancy.
Download or read book Perception written by R. Held and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was designed to focus on the problems of perception and originally was to have been solely edited by Professor Hans-Lukas Teuber who was a member of the editorial board which initiated production of the Handbook. Accordingly, he issued invitations to a number of researchers III perception asking them to contribute chapters written in a style described III his words: " . . . Ire hope that no author lI'ill feel COl/strained to undertake a major search of the literature: he could In'ite, instead. on an area in which he has been quite actire himse?t~ and II'here most of the issues are immediately obt"ious to him. In this Iray, the IITiting of the chapter should be cnjoyable rather than a chore . . it should result in a personal account of the state of a given area rather than in an encyclopedic treatise . . . the field deserves this sort of summary ret'iell", particularly (f it is pointed toward the future and speeds the convergence of det'elopments in sensory physiology and psychological studies of perception, " With the growing burden of national and international commitments includ ing departmental headship, Professor Teuber felt that it would be wise to share the editorial responsibilities for this volume and accordingly, asked Professors Richard Held and Herschel Leibowitz to co-edit the volume with him in the same spirit as outlined in his invitation to authors. They agreed to help in this task.
Download or read book Issues in Perception Cognition Development and Personality 2012 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality: 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Vision and Perception Psychology. The editors have built Issues in Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality: 2012 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Vision and Perception Psychology in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Perception, Cognition, Development, and Personality: 2012 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Download or read book Government wide Index to Federal Research Development Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-10 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
