Visual Form Detection in Three-dimensional Space

Visual Form Detection in Three-dimensional Space
Author: W. R. Uttal
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134922469

Published in the year 1982, Visual Form Detection in Three-dimensional Space is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.

The Detection of Nonplanar Surfaces in Visual Space

The Detection of Nonplanar Surfaces in Visual Space
Author: W. R. Uttal
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317768388

First published in 1984. This monograph is the third in a series that examines the nature of a midlevel visual process relatively uncontaminated by either peripheral receptor or central cognitive processing. The paradigm utilized in this study selectively assays what seems to be a relatively fixed algorithmic mechanism involved in the extraction of dotted stimulus-forms from masks consisting of random dots.

On Seeing Forms

On Seeing Forms
Author: William R. Uttal
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317668928

Originally published in 1988, this is the final volume in the set. The original intent of the tetralogy was to review neural explanations of high level perceptual and cognitive processes. However, at this point, it became clear that there were few neural explanations of perceptual topics – a situation that still persists today. This book, therefore, used a different framework examining the role of detection, discrimination, and recognition at the behavioral level.

The Uttal Tetralogy of Cognitive Neuroscience

The Uttal Tetralogy of Cognitive Neuroscience
Author: William R. Uttal
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 2995
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317669045

These four volumes, originally published between 1973 and 1988, were intended to provide a broad survey of cognitive neuroscience, a field known variously as physiological psychology or psychobiology in the 1970s and 1980s when the books were written. The general goal was to summarize what was known about the relation between brain and mind at that time, with an emphasis on sensory and perceptual topics. Out of print for many years, the Tetralogy is now available again, as a set for the first time (which is as the author envisaged it), or as individual volumes.

The Swimmer

The Swimmer
Author: William R. Uttal
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317782410

This research monograph describes a large programming project in which an underwater organism, capable of perceiving, learning, deciding, and navigating, is computationally simulated. The developed computational model serves as a contemporary theory of perceptual-motor performance, embodying much of what is known about human vision and some of what is known about other cognitive processes. This artificial intelligence project has substantial contributions to make to the development of autonomous underwater vehicles. It also makes a specific theoretical statement about the organization and nature of organic perceptual motor systems that may be useful to psychologists, neuroscientists, and theoreticians in a number of other fields.

Time, Space, and Number in Physics and Psychology (Psychology Revivals)

Time, Space, and Number in Physics and Psychology (Psychology Revivals)
Author: William R. Uttal
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317557530

The crux of the debate between proponents of behavioral psychology and cognitive psychology focuses on the issue of accessibility. Cognitivists believe that mental mechanisms and processes are accessible, and that their inner workings can be inferred from experimental observations of behavior. Behaviorists, on the contrary, believe that mental processes and mechanisms are inaccessible, and that nothing important about them can be inferred from even the most cleverly designed empirical studies. One argument that is repeatedly raised by cognitivists is that even though mental processes are not directly accessible, this should not be a barrier to unravelling the nature of the inner mental processes and mechanisms. Inference works for other sciences, such as physics, so why not psychology? If physics can work so successfully with their kind of inaccessibility to make enormous theoretical progress, then why not psychology? As with most previous psychological debates, there is no "killer argument" that can provide an unambiguous resolution. In its absence, author William Uttal explores the differing properties of physical and psychological time, space, and mathematics before coming to the conclusion that there are major discrepancies between the properties of the respective subject matters that make the analogy of comparable inaccessibilities a false one. This title was first published in 2008.

A Behaviorist Looks at Form Recognition

A Behaviorist Looks at Form Recognition
Author: William R. Uttal
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135636389

For many years behaviorism was criticized because it rejected the study of perception. This rejection was based on the extreme view that percepts were internal subjective experiences and thus not subject to examination. This book argues that this logic is incorrect and shows how visual perception, particularized in the study of form recognition, can be carried out from the behavioral point of view if certain constraints and limitations are understood and accepted. The book discusses the idea of representation of forms, considers the major historical neural, psychological, and computational theories of form recognition, and then concludes by presenting a modern approach to the problem. In this book, William Uttal continues his critical analysis of the foundations of modern psychology. He is particularly concerned with the logical and conceptual foundations of visual perception and uses form recognition as a vehicle to rationalize the discrepancies between classic behaviorism and what we now appreciate are legitimate research areas.

The Perception of Dotted Forms

The Perception of Dotted Forms
Author: William R. Uttal
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317766822

First published in 1987. This book is the fourth in a series of research monographs reporting the results of a continuing study that deals with the perception of form in two- and three-dimensional space.

Perceptual Organization in Computer and Biological Vision

Perceptual Organization in Computer and Biological Vision
Author: James Elder
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2024-08-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2832553451

A principal challenge for both biological and machine vision systems is to integrate and organize the diversity of cues received from the environment into the coherent global representations we experience and require to make good decisions and take effective actions. Early psychological investigations date back more than 100 years to the seminal work of the Gestalt school. Yet in the last 50 years, neuroscientific and computational approaches to understanding perceptual organization have become equally important, and a full understanding requires integration of all three approaches. This highly interdisciplinary Research Topic welcomes contributions spanning Computer Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience, with the aim of presenting a single, unified collection that will encourage integration and cross-fertilization across disciplines.

Computational, Geometric, and Process Perspectives on Facial Cognition

Computational, Geometric, and Process Perspectives on Facial Cognition
Author: Michael J. Wenger
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2005-04-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 113566949X

Within the last three decades, interest in the psychological experience of human faces has drawn together cognitive science researchers from diverse backgrounds. Computer scientists talk to neural scientists who draw on the work of mathematicians who explicitly influence those conducting behavioral experiments. The chapters in this volume illustrate the breadth of the research on facial perception and memory, with the emphasis being on mathematical and computational approaches. In pulling together these chapters, the editors sought to do much more than illustrate breadth. They endeavored as well to illustrate the synergies and tensions that inevitably result from adopting a broad view, one consistent with the emerging discipline of cognitive science.