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Book Remote Sensing and Cognition

Download or read book Remote Sensing and Cognition written by Raechel A. White and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human factors play a critical role in the design and interpretation of remotely sensed imagery for all Earth sciences. Remote Sensing and Cognition: Human Factors in Image Interpretation brings together current topics widely recognized and addressed regarding human cognition in geographic imagery, especially remote sensing imagery with complex data. It addresses themes around expertise including methods for knowledge elicitation and modeling of expertise, the effects of different aspects of realism on the interpretation of the environment, spatial learning using imagery, the effect of visual perspective on interpretation, and a variety of technologies and methods for utilizing knowledge in the analysis of remote sensing imagery. Written by leaders in the field, this book provides answers to the host of questions raised at the nexus of psychology and remote sensing. Academics and researchers with an interest in the human issues surrounding the use of remote sensing data will find this book to be an invaluable resource. The topics covered in this book are useful for both the scientific analysis of remote sensing imagery as well as the design and display of remote sensing imagery to facilitate a variety of other tasks including education and wayfinding. Features Brings together remote sensing, environmental, and computer scientists discussing their work from a psychological or human factors perspective Answers questions related to aesthetics of scientific visualization and mathematical analysis of perceptible objects Explains the perception and interpretation of realistic representations Provides illustrative real-world examples Shows how the features of display symbols, elements, and patterns have clear effects on processes of perception and visual search

Book Religious Narrative  Cognition and Culture

Download or read book Religious Narrative Cognition and Culture written by Armin W. Geertz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture' brings together some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science and comparative religion. The essays range across diverse fields: the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged; the possible phylogenetic routes in the development of language and culture; the complex interrelations between the ontogenesis and the sociogenesis of cognitive processes; the value of a combination of neurology, narratology and a reworked speech-act approach that focuses on narrative; how the psychology of ritual helps make narrative beliefs possible; religious narratives; emotional communication; the role of gossip as religious narrative; area studies of religious narrative and cognition in the Bible; Indian Epic literature; Australian Aboriginal mythology and ritual; modern religious forms such as New Age, Asatro, astrological narrative and virtual rituals in cyberspace.

Book Image and Cognition

Download or read book Image and Cognition written by Michel Denis and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Image and Mind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Michael Kosslyn
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9780674443662
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book Image and Mind written by Stephen Michael Kosslyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kosslyn makes an impressive case for the view that images are critically involved in the life of the mind. In a series of ingenious experiments, he provides hard evidence that people can construct elaborate mental images, search them for specific information, and perform such other internal operations as mental rotation.

Book Image et cognition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michel Denis
  • Publisher : Presses Universitaires de France - PUF
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Image et cognition written by Michel Denis and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage retrace les débats théoriques et fait le point des recherches expérimentales les plus récentes sur le rôle de l'image dans la cognition humaine; il fournit une analyse détailée des propriétés de l'image mentale et des relations avec l'activité perceptive.

Book Image  Imagination  and Cognition

Download or read book Image Imagination and Cognition written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How were the relations among image, imagination and cognition characterized in the period 1500 – 1800? The authors of this volume argue that in those three centuries, a thoroughgoing transformation affected the following issues: (i) what it meant to understand phenomena in the natural world (cognition); (ii) how such phenomena were visualized or pictured (images, including novel types of diagrams, structural models, maps, etc.); and (iii) what role was attributed to the faculty of the imagination (psychology, creativity). The essays collected in this volume examine the new conceptions that were advanced and the novel ways of comprehending and expressing the relations among image, imagination, and cognition. They also shed light, from a variety of perspectives, on the elusive nexus of conceptions and practices.

Book From Perception to Meaning

Download or read book From Perception to Meaning written by Beate Hampe and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1987 landmark publications by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson made image schema one of the cornerstone concepts of the emerging experientialist paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics, a framework founded upon the rejection of the mind-body dichotomy and stressing the fundamentally embodied nature of meaning, imagination and reason - hence language. Conceived of as the pre-linguistic, dynamic and highly schematic gestalts arising directly from motor movement, object manipulation, and perceptual interaction, image schemas served to anchor abstract reasoning and imagination to sensori-motor patterns in the conceptual theory of metaphor. Being itself informed by preceding crosslinguistic work on semantic primitives in the linguistic representations of spatial relations (carried out by L. Talmy, R. Langacker, and others), the notion has inspired a large amount of subsequent research and debate on diverse issues ranging from the meaning, structure and acquisition of natural languages to the embodied mind itself. From Perception to Meaning is the first survey of current image-schema theory and offers a collection of original and innovative essays by leading scholars, many of whom have shaped the theory from the very beginning. The edition unites essays on major issues in recent research on image-schemas - from aspects of their definition and linguistic formalization, their psychological status and neural grounding to their role as semantic universals and primitives in language acquisition. The book will thus not only be welcomed by linguists of a cognitive orientation, but will prove relevant to philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists interested in language, and indeed to anyone studying the embodied mind.

Book Image and Environment

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Stea
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-12
  • ISBN : 135151363X
  • Pages : 501 pages

Download or read book Image and Environment written by David Stea and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive mapping is a construct that encompasses those processes that enable people to acquire, code, store, recall, and manipulate information about the nature of their spatial environment. It refers to the attributes and relative locations of people and objects in the environment, and is an essential component in the adaptive process of spatial decision-making--such as finding a safe and quick route to from work, locating potential sites for a new house or business, and deciding where to travel on a vacation trip. Cognitive processes are not constant, but undergo change with age or development and use or learning. Image and Environment, now in paperback, is a pioneer study. It brings a new academic discipline to a wide audience. The volume is divided into six sections, which represent a comprehensive breakdown of cognitive mapping studies: "Theory"; "Cognitive Representations"; "Spatial Preferences"; "The Development of Spatial Cognition"; "Geographical and Spatial Orientation"; and "Cognitive Distance." Contributors include Edward Tolman, James Blaut, Stephen Kaplan, Terence Lee, Donald Appleyard, Peter Orleans, Thomas Saarinen, Kevin Cox, Georgia Zannaras, Peter Gould, Roger Hart, Gary Moore, Donald Griffin, Kevin Lynch, Ulf Lundberg, Ronald Lowrey, and Ronald Briggs.

Book Image Formation and Cognition

Download or read book Image Formation and Cognition written by Mardi Jon Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language

Download or read book From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language written by Michel Denis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing the state-of-the-art research in the field of imagery, visuo-spatial memory, spatial representation and language, with special emphasis on their interactions, the volume addresses the issues in depth, presenting new evidence through contributions from both behavioural and neuroimaging studies.

Book The Actor  Image  and Action

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  • Author : Rhonda Blair
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2007-11-30
  • ISBN : 1135976244
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book The Actor Image and Action written by Rhonda Blair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhonda Blair examines the physiological relationship between bodily action and emotional experience, in the first full-length study of actor training using the insights of cognitive neuroscience and their crucial importance to an actor’s engagement with a role.

Book Image and Mind

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  • Author : Gregory Currie
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1995-09-29
  • ISBN : 0521453569
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Image and Mind written by Gregory Currie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a theory of the nature of the cinematic medium, of the psychology of film viewing, and of film narrative.

Book Imagery and Spatial Cognition

Download or read book Imagery and Spatial Cognition written by Tomaso Vecchi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationships between perception and imagery, imagery and spatial processes, memory and action: These are the main themes of this text The interest of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience on imagery and spatial cognition is remarkably increased in the last decades. Different areas of research contribute to the clarification of the multiple cognitive processes subserving spatial perception and exploration, and to the definition of the neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning these cognitive functions. The aim of this book is to provide the reader (post-graduate students as well as experts) with a complete overview of this field of research. It illustrates the way how brain, behaviour and cognition interact in normal and pathological subjects in perceiving, representing and exploring space. (Series B).

Book Image Formation and Cognition

Download or read book Image Formation and Cognition written by Mardi Jon Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language

Download or read book From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language written by Valérie Gyselinck and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of mental images and their relation to language has caused controversy amongst psychologists for years, and the so-called "imagery debate" is still unresolved. Fresh light is now being shed on this topic using recent findings in neuroscience and the development of behavioural studies. Reviewing state-of-the-art research in the field of imagery, visuo-spatial memory, spatial representation and language, with special emphasis on their interactions, the volume shows how, and to what extent, findings from the studies on imagery can positively influence and enrich other psychological areas such as: Working memory Space and time representation Language and embodiment Chapter 9, written by Michel Denis, to whom this book is dedicated, analyses more than three decades of research, and outlines the shared scientific journey of friendship and discovery that has developed across various cognitive topics, all of which are linked to, and inspired by, imagery conceptualization. This is the only book to present a critical outline of research on these topics in a single volume, and as such will be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in such fields as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science and neuropsychology.

Book Image and Cognition

Download or read book Image and Cognition written by Michel Denis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denis explores the role of imagery in reasoning, in resolving problems and in planning human action, and more generally, in human thought. The text is designed for the upper-level undergraduate or postgraduate in cognitive psychology or neuroscience.

Book Image and Brain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Michael Kosslyn
  • Publisher : Mit Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780262111843
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Image and Brain written by Stephen Michael Kosslyn and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Image and Brain attempts what is rarely seen in cognitive neuroscience: The Big Picture. To be sure, it is Kosslyn's Big Picture, but that is probably the best there is." -- Irving Biederman, William M. Keck Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Southern California. This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image and Brain marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision, neuroscience, and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery, its relation to visual perception, and its implementation in the human brain. It offers a definitive resolution to the long-standing debate about the nature of the internal representation of visual mental imagery. Kosslyn reviews evidence that perception and representation are inextricably linked, and goes on to show how "quasi-pictorial" events in the brain are generated, interpreted, and used in cognition. The theory is tested with brain- scanning techniques that provide stronger evidence than has been possible in the past. Known for his work in high-level vision, one of the most empirically successful areas of experimental psychology, Kosslyn uses a highly interdisciplinary approach. He reviews and integrates an extensive amount of literature in a coherent presentation, and reports a wide range of new findings using a host of techniques. A Bradford Book