Author: D. Algom
Publisher: North Holland
Keywords: cognition, approaches, psychophysical
Number of Pages: 628
Published: 1992-08-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0444889787
ISBN-13: 9780444889782

Our lives are informed by perceptual and cognitive processes at all levels, from instrumental learning to metaphorical discourse to memorial representation. Yet, historically, these two branches of experimental psychology, perception and cognition, have developed separately using independent methods of experimentation and analysis. This volume is motivated by the assumption that a fundamental integration of the two fields is fruitful methodologically and indispensable theoretically. It explores how the notion of psychophysics aligned with cognitive processes shapes the study of perception and

Author: Takeo Watanabe
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: psychophysical, perspectives, neurobiological, computational, motion, processing, level
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1998-10-20
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0262231956
ISBN-13: 9780262231954

"Takeo Watanabe’s collection of essays brings together a fascinating variety of theoretical, experimental and historical information about this important and rapidly developing topic." -- Horace Barlow, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge Motion perception is fundamental to survival. Until recently, research on motion perception emphasized such basic aspects of motion as sampling and filtering. In the past decade, however, the emphasis has gradually shifted to higher-level motion processing--i.e., processing that takes place not only in the primary visual cortex b