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Book Downward Processes In The Perception Representation Mechanisms   Proceedings Of The International School Of Biocybernetics

Download or read book Downward Processes In The Perception Representation Mechanisms Proceedings Of The International School Of Biocybernetics written by Cloe Taddei-ferretti and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-12-24 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perception is the first step in the whole of the cognitive processes (attention, learning, memory, categorization, imagery, intuition, inference, comprehension, thought, judgement, expression) which culminate in the reasoning activity and to which emotions make a contribution. The production of perception representations is correlated with the perception events. Such perception representations occur by means of the contribution of two kinds of factors: sensory signals which reproduce the spatio-temporal characteristics of the receptor modifications, and interpretation of the intrinsic ambiguity of such signals by means of unconscious inferences. Various interactions intervene between bottom-up signals from peripheral receptors and top-down signals from higher centres.

Book Downward Processes in the Perception Representation Mechanisms

Download or read book Downward Processes in the Perception Representation Mechanisms written by Cloe Taddei-Ferretti and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perception is the first step in the whole of the cognitive processes (attention, learning, memory, categorization, imagery, intuition, inference, comprehension, thought, judgement, expression) which culminate in the reasoning activity and to which emotions make a contribution. The production of perception representations is correlated with the perception events. Such perception representations occur by means of the contribution of two kinds of factors: sensory signals which reproduce the spatio-temporal characteristics of the receptor modifications, and interpretation of the intrinsic ambiguity of such signals by means of unconscious inferences. Various interactions intervene between bottom-up signals from peripheral receptors and top-down signals from higher centres. This is a useful book on downward processes in the perception representation mechanisms.

Book From Structure To Information In Sensory Systems   Proceedings Of The International School Of Biophysics

Download or read book From Structure To Information In Sensory Systems Proceedings Of The International School Of Biophysics written by Cloe Taddei-ferretti and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-12-07 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sequel on the topics of photoreception and phototransduction covered by Volume I of the series (Biophysics of Photoreception: Molecular and Phototransductive Events), adding the analysis of two other modalities of sensory reception and transduction — the chemical and mechanical ones, which are phylogenetically older. This characterization results not in a succession of three different and uncorrelated moments, but in a fruitful confrontation between experts which usually act separately and in an integration between various particular knowledges. This approach highlights the basic strategies common to different sensory modalities and specializations, as well as the ecological adaptations of each of them.

Book Memory And Emotion  Proceedings Of The International School Of Biocybernetics

Download or read book Memory And Emotion Proceedings Of The International School Of Biocybernetics written by Pasquale Calabrese and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-10-14 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals primarily with the role of emotions in the mechanisms of memory. It is a compilation of the lectures given at a course conducted at the International School of Biocybernetics.

Book Neuronal Bases And Psychological Aspects Of Consciousness   Proceedings Of The International School Of Biocybernetics

Download or read book Neuronal Bases And Psychological Aspects Of Consciousness Proceedings Of The International School Of Biocybernetics written by Cloe Taddei-ferretti and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-05-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a few decades, the puzzle of consciousness, which for centuries was analysed by philosophers, has been finding a wide interest in the scientific field, where previously it was not entitled to be a member. It has become one of the most-debated problems in the cognitive sciences. The anatomical bases, neurophysiological correlates and elementary mechanisms underlying complex processes arising with consciousness have been compared with the psychological (perceptive, cognitive, volitive, emotional) aspects of conscious expressions, in normal and pathological conditions. Various theories, which attempt to fit systematically and coherently neural and psychological data, have been debated, proving the emergence of the phenomenon of consciousness.

Book Neuronal Coding of Perceptual Systems

Download or read book Neuronal Coding of Perceptual Systems written by W Backhaus and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-10-29 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a most complete overview of physiological and psychophysical properties of perceptual systems in man and animals. The information processing chains are described step-by-step from the stimuli of the respective environments, via the perceptual neuronal coding networks to conscious sensations and behaviour. Articles by W G K Backhaus, A G Clark, B Hiley, A Iznak, M Kavaliers, B Kramer, A Michelsen, C Neumeyer, G A Orban, T Radil, D G Stavenga, M Stengl, U Thurm, R L DeValois, R Wehner, J S Werner, W Wiltschko, and related short articles. Contents:PrefaceIntroductory LectureNeuronal Coding:Vision: Neuronal Coding of Colour, Space, Form, Motion, and Polarised Light PerceptionHearing and Touch: Neuronal Coding of Auditory and Mechano PerceptionTaste and Smell: Neuronal Coding of Chemical PerceptionNeuronal Coding of Temperature, Electro, Magneto, and Pain PerceptionNeuronal Network SimulationsInternal Representations:Neuronal Coding, Qualia, and Sensations (Consciousness)Participants Readership: Students and researchers in biophysics, neurosciences and physiology. Keywords:Neuronal Coding;Perceptual Systems;Biophysics;Biocybernetics;Physiology;Psychology

Book Vision  The Approach Of Biophysics And Neuroscience   Proceedings Of The International School Of Biophysics

Download or read book Vision The Approach Of Biophysics And Neuroscience Proceedings Of The International School Of Biophysics written by C Musio and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The light sense is conceivably the key sense in both the animal and the plant kingdom. Vision research, undoubtedly a fast-growing field, is providing impressive results — thanks to modern theoretical and methodological advances. The approach of biophysics and neuroscience seems to be of great benefit and, for this reason, the present book gives an outline of recent acquisitions and updated advanced methods concerning this approach. Visual mechanisms and processes are analysed at several (molecular, cellular, integrative, computational and cognitive) levels by different methodologies (from molecular biology to computation) applied to different living models (from protists to humans, via invertebrates and lower vertebrates).

Book Emotions  Qualia  and Consciousness

Download or read book Emotions Qualia and Consciousness written by Alfred W. Kaszniak and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of emotion is a ubiquitous component of the stream of consciousness; emotional qualia interact with other contents and processes of consciousness in complex ways. Recent research has supported the hypothesis that important functional aspects of emotion can operate outside the conscious awareness. Primary types of emotions are found in animals, while secondary, more complex types are involved in interpersonal relationships. Emotions both influence genetic repair mechanisms of individuals and are responsible for group behavior. Many scholars and scientists believe that no scientific or philosophic account of consciousness can be complete without an understanding of the role of emotion. Contents: Emotion and Consciousness: Current Research and Controversies (A W Kaszniak); The Nature of Typical Emotions (A Ben-Ze''ev); Emotions Associated to Cognitive Revision as a Basis for Values (P Livet); Neuro-Affective Processes and the Brain Substrates of Emotion: Emerging Perspective and Dilemmas (J Pankseep); Imagery and Emotion: Information Networks in the Brain (P J Lang); Hemispheric Asymmetries in Representation and Control of Emotions: Evidence from Unilateral Brain Damage (G Gainotti); Hierarchical Organization of Emotional Experience and Its Neural Substrates (R Lane); Metal Representations, the Reticular Activating System and Emotions (B Cabott); Antecedents and Functions of Emotion Episodes (N H Frijda); The Communication of Emotion (U Hess); The Mental Representation of Romantic Jealousy: A Blended Emotion (and More) (D J Sharpsteen); and other papers. Readership: Postdoctoral students and researchers in biocybernetics, neurosciences, cognitive sciences and psychology.

Book Proceedings  International Conference on Image Processing

Download or read book Proceedings International Conference on Image Processing written by and published by Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE). This book was released on 1997 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from this conference on image processing are aimed at researchers, professors, practitioners, students, and other computing professionals.

Book 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics  Speech  and Signal Processing  Multidimensional signal processing  neural networks

Download or read book 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Multidimensional signal processing neural networks written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Agriculture

Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Animal Spatial Cognition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Thinus-Blanc
  • Publisher : World Scientific
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9789810228187
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Animal Spatial Cognition written by Catherine Thinus-Blanc and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ?Cognitive Map? (Tolman, 1948) is a key notion in spatial processing studies. It refers to high level spatial representations. Although widely used, this term remains ambiguous. The aim of this book is two-fold: (1) to examine the most noteworthy studies (in laboratory settings) which have contributed during the last five decades to a better understanding of animal spatial representations; (2) to provide some hints for future research.Spatial tests designed by psychologists are useful tools for understanding the brain substrates of spatial memory. Conversely, brain treatments allow us to analyse the complex psychological mechanisms underlying spatial orientation. Within this interdisciplinary context, it is extremely important to take stock of a notion used (and sometimes misused) in cognitive neurosciences.

Book Books In Print 2004 2005

Download or read book Books In Print 2004 2005 written by Ed Bowker Staff and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2004 with total page 3274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Telematic Embrace

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  • Author : Roy Ascott
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780520218031
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Telematic Embrace written by Roy Ascott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Telematic Embrace combines a provocative collection of writings from 1964 to the present by the preeminent artist and art theoretician Roy Ascott, with a critical essay by Edward Shanken that situates Ascott's work within a history of ideas in art, technology, and philosophy.

Book Understanding Understanding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heinz von Foerster
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2007-05-08
  • ISBN : 0387217223
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Understanding Understanding written by Heinz von Foerster and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these ground-breaking essays, Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge. The author was one of the founders of the science of cybernetics.

Book Bioengineering and Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

Download or read book Bioengineering and Biomedical Signal and Image Processing written by Ignacio Rojas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-10-09 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Bioengineering and Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, BIOMESIP 2021, held in Meloneras, Gran Canaria, Spain, in July 2021. The 41 full and 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical issues on biomedical applications in molecular, structural, and functional imaging; biomedical computing; biomedical signal measurement, acquisition and processing; computerized medical imaging and graphics; disease control and diagnosis; neuroimaging; pattern recognition and machine learning for biosignal data; personalized medicine; and COVID-19.

Book Essential Readings in Biosemiotics

Download or read book Essential Readings in Biosemiotics written by Donald Favareau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems. Seeking to advance a naturalistic understanding of the evolution and development of sign-dependent life processes, contemporary biosemiotic theory offers important new conceptual tools for the scientific understanding of mind and meaning, for the development of artificial intelligence, and for the ongoing research into the rich diversity of non-verbal human, animal and biological communication processes. Donald Favareau’s Essential Readings in Biosemiotics has been designed as a single-source overview of the major works informing this new interdiscipline, and provides scholarly historical and analytical commentary on each of the texts presented. The first of its kind, this book constitutes a valuable resource to both bioscientists and to semioticians interested in this emerging new discipline, and can function as a primary textbook for students in biosemiotics, as well. Moreover, because of its inherently interdisciplinary nature and its focus on the ‘big questions’ of cognition, meaning and evolutionary biology, this volume should be of interest to anyone working in the fields of cognitive science, theoretical biology, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology, communication studies or the history and philosophy of science.