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Book Hypothesis and Perception

Download or read book Hypothesis and Perception written by Errol E. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Hypothesis and Perception

    Book Details:
  • Author : Errol E. Harris, Errol E
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-02-09
  • ISBN : 9781138871168
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Hypothesis and Perception written by Errol E. Harris, Errol E and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book The Two Sides of Perception

Download or read book The Two Sides of Perception written by Richard B. Ivry and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anatomically, the central nervous system looks remarkably symmetrical--from the relatively simple structures of the spinal cord to the extensively convoluted folds of the cerebral hemispheres. At the functional level, however, there are striking differences between the left and right hemispheres. Although popular writings attribute language abilities to the left hemisphere and spatial abilities to the right, differences in hemispheric function appear to be more subtle. According to Ivry and Robertson, asymmetries over a wide range of perceptual tasks reflect a difference in strength rather than kind, with both hemispheres contributing to the performance of complex tasks, whether linguistic or spatial. After an historical introduction, the authors offer a cognitive neuroscience perspective on hemispheric specialization in perception. They propose that the two hemispheres differ in how they filter task-relevant sensory information. Building on the idea that the hemispheres construct asymmetric representations, the hypothesis provides a novel account of many laterality effects. A notable feature of the authors' work is their attempt to incorporate hemispheric specialization in vision, audition, music, and language within a common framework. In support of their theory, they review studies involving both healthy and neurologically impaired individuals. They also provide a series of simulations to demonstrate the underlying computational principles of their theory. Their work thus describes both the cognitive and neurological architecture of hemispheric asymmetries in perception.

Book Theory of Perception

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  • Author : George Pitcher
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2015-03-08
  • ISBN : 1400873053
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Theory of Perception written by George Pitcher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented here in a lucid, simple style is an extended defense of a behavioral and direct-realist theory of sense perception. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Perception

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  • Author : Brian J. Rogers
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0198791003
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Perception written by Brian J. Rogers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in psychology, and it raised some profound philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to inform our behaviour, and to create our subjective experience of the surrounding world. Brian Rogers discusses the philosophical question of what it means to perceive, and describes how we are able to perceive the particular characteristics of objects and scenes such as their lightness, colour, form, depth, and motion. He argues that perception should not be seen as a separate process but rather as part of a 'perceptual system', involving both the extraction ofperceptual information and the control of action--Amazon.com.

Book Hypothesis Testing Reconsidered

Download or read book Hypothesis Testing Reconsidered written by Gregory Francis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypothesis testing is a common statistical analysis for empirical data generated by studies of perception, but its properties and limitations are widely misunderstood. This Element describes several properties of hypothesis testing, with special emphasis on analyses common to studies of perception. The author also describes the challenges and difficulties with using hypothesis testing to interpret empirical data. Many common applications of hypothesis testing inflate the intended Type I error rate. Other aspects of hypothesis tests have important implications for experimental design. Solutions are available for some of these difficulties, but many issues are difficult to deal with.

Book Modularity and the Motor Theory of Speech Perception

Download or read book Modularity and the Motor Theory of Speech Perception written by Alvin Meyer Liberman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Contemporary Theory and Research in Visual Perception

Download or read book Contemporary Theory and Research in Visual Perception written by Ralph Norman Haber and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception

Download or read book The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception written by John Zeimbekis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nature of cognitive penetrability hypothesis, which holds that our beliefs, desires, and possibly our emotions literally affect how we see the world. Assesses both cognitive penetrability and impenetrability and explores their philosophical consequences.

Book Theories of Perception and the Concept of Structure

Download or read book Theories of Perception and the Concept of Structure written by Floyd Henry Allport and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perception

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  • Author : Frank Jackson
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1977-05-05
  • ISBN : 9780521215503
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Perception written by Frank Jackson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1977-05-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the nature of, and what is the relationship between, external objects and our visual perceptual experience of them? In this book, Frank Jackson defends the answers provided by the traditional Representative theory of perception. He argues, among other things that we are never immediately aware of external objects, that they are the causes of our perceptual experiences and that they have only the primary qualities. In the course of the argument, sense data and the distinction between mediate and immediate perception receive detailed defences and the author criticises attempts to reduce perceiving the believing and to show that the Representative theory makes the external world unknowable. Jackson recognises that his views are unfashionable but argues in detail that they are to be preferred to their currently favoured competitors. It will become an obvious point of reference for all future work on the philosophy of perception.

Book The Problems of Perception

Download or read book The Problems of Perception written by R J Hirst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Written in 1959, this volume looks at the philosophical problems of perception, that arise mainly because our traditional common-sense notions clash with the factual evidence concerning not only the occurrence of illusions and hallucinations but also the essential role played by complex causal and psychological processes in perceiving.

Book System Theories and A Priori Aspects of Perception

Download or read book System Theories and A Priori Aspects of Perception written by J.S. Jordan and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1998-04-21 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes as a starting point, John Dewey's article, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, in which Dewey was calling for, in short, the utilisation of systems theories within psychology, theories of behaviour that capture its nature as a vastly-complex dynamic coordination of nested coordinations. This line of research was neglected as American psychology migrated towards behaviourism, where perception came to be thought of as being both a neural response to an external stimulus and a mediating neural stimulus leading to, or causing a muscular response. As such, perception becomes a question of how it is the perceiver creates neural representations of the physical world. Gestalt psychology, on the other hand, focused on perception itself, utilising the term Phenomenological Field; a term that elegantly nests perception and the organism within their respective, as well as relative, levels of organisation. With the development of servo-mechanisms during the second world war, systems theory began to take on momentum within psychology, and then in the 1970s William T Powers brought the notion of servo-control to perception in his book, Behavior: The Control of Perception. Since then, scientists have come to see nature not as linear chain of contingent cause-effect relationships, but rather, as a non linear, unpredictable nesting of self referential, emergent coordinations, best described as Chaos theory. The implications for perception are astounding, while maintaining the double-aspect nature of perception espoused by the Gestalt psychologists. In short, system theories model perception within the context of a functioning organism, so that objects of experience come to be seen as scale-dependent, psychophysically-neutral, phenomenological transformations of energy structures, the dynamics of which are the result of evolution, and therefore, a priori to the individual case. This a priori, homological unity among brain perception and world is revealed through the use of systems theories and represents the thrust of this book. All the authors are applying some sort of systems theory to the psychology of perception. However, unlike Dewey we have close to a century of technology we can bring to bear upon the issue. This book should be seen as a collection of such efforts.

Book Indirect Perception

Download or read book Indirect Perception written by Irvin Rock and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This posthumous volume, the culmination of a long and distinguished career, brings together an original essay by the author together with a careful selection of previously published articles (most by Rock) on the theory that perception is an indirect process in which visual experience is derived by inference, rather than being directly and independently determined by retinal stimulation.

Book Perception  Physics  and Reality

Download or read book Perception Physics and Reality written by Charlie Dunbar Broad and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sense Perception And Matter

Download or read book Sense Perception And Matter written by Lean, Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. This is Volume IX of twenty-one of a series on Cognitive Psychology. Written in 1953, this book offers a critical analysis of C.D. Broad’s argument in Chapter IV The Mind and Its Place in Nature concerning ‘Sense Perception and Matter’ and his Theory of Perception.