Human Perception
Published on 21. September 2006
Book
Hardback
510 pages
978-0-7546-2607-7 (ISBN)
Description
Covers areas such as attention, brain systems, object perception, and information processing. The study of human perception during the second half of the twentieth century provides the focus of this collection.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-2607-7 (9780754626077)
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Persons
Dr Marco Bertamini is from the School of Psychology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Michael Kubovy is Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, USA.
Content
Introduction. Attention: A.M. Treisman and G. Gelade (1980), Feature-integration theory of Attention; M.I. Posner, C.R.R. Snyder, BJ Davidson (1980), Attention and the detection of signals; S. Yantis and J. Jonides (1990), Abrupt visual onsets and selective attention - voluntary versus automatic allocation; J. Wolfe and T. S Horowitz (2004), What attributes guide the deployment of visual attention and how do they do it?. Brain Systems: B.G. Breitmeyer and L. Ganz (1976), Implications of sustained and transient channels for theories of visual-pattern masking, saccadic suppression, and information-processing; N.K. Logothetis and J.D. Schall (1989), Neuronal correlates of subjective visual-perception; M.A. Goodale and A.D. Milner (1992), Separate visual pathways for perception and action. Object Interpolation and Completion: G. Kanizsa (1976), Subjective contours; P.J. Kellman and T.F Shipley (1992), Perceiving objects across gaps in space and time; R. Baillargeon (2004), Infants' physical world. Object Recognition and Classification: B. Tversky and K. Hemenway (1984), Objects, parts, and categories; D.D. Hoffman and W.A. Richards (1984), Parts of recognition; I. Biederman (1987), Recognition-by-components - a theory of human image understanding. Different Types of Objects: M.J. Farah, K.D. Wilson, M. Drain, et al. (1998), What is "special" about face perception?; D. Kahneman, A. Treisman, B.J. Gibbs (1992), The reviewing of object files - object-specific integration of information; M. Kubovy and D. Van Valkenburg (2001), Auditory and visual objects; M. Bertamini and C. J. Croucher (2003), The shape of holes. Information Processing and Models: S. Sternberg (1969), Discovery of processing stages - extensions of donders method; R.N. Shepard (1984), Ecological constraints on internal representation - resonant kinematics of perceiving, imagining, thinking, and dreaming; S. Grossberg and E. Mingolla (1985), Neural dynamics of perceptual grouping - textures, boundaries, and emergent segmentations; S.P. Tipper (1985), The negative priming effect - inhibitory priming by ignored objects; Index.