Perception
Elizabeth Akins(Editor)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 25. April 1996
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-19-508461-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is the fifth volume in the Vancouver Studies of Cognitive Science Series, an interdisciplinary series bringing together topics of interest to psychologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and linguists. Perception covers the problem of depth perception, the interaction of perception and memory, the perception of time, and principles of vision. All chapters focus on fundamental questions about the nature of visual perception.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
707 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-508461-0 (9780195084610)
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Kathleen Akins
Perception
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12/1996
1st Edition
Oxford University Press
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Professor . Department of PhilosophyProfessor . Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
Content
1. Introduction; 2. Explaining Why Things Look the Way They Do; 3. A Feedforward Network for Fast Stereo Vision with Movable Fusion Plane; 4. On the Failure to Detect Changes in Scenes across Saccades; 5. On the Function of Visual Representation; 6. Filling In: Why Dennett Is Wrong; 7. Seeing Is Believing; 8. Ships in the Night: Churchland and Ramachandran on Dennett's Theory of Consciousness; 9. Lewis on What Distinguishes Perception from Hallucination; 10. Intentionality and the Theory of Vision; 11. Success-Orientation and Individualism in Marr's Theory of Vision; 12. Objective Perception; 13. Visual Attention and the Attention-Action Interface; 14. The Perception of Time