Indirect Perception

Indirect Perception
Author: Irvin Rock
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780262181778

This posthumous volume, the culmination of a long and distinguished career, brings together an original essay by the author together with a careful selection of previously published articles (most by Rock) on the theory that perception is an indirect process in which visual experience is derived by inference, rather than being directly and independently determined by retinal stimulation.

Perception

Perception
Author: Brian J. Rogers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198791003

Brian J. Rogers analyses the psychological and philosophical aspects of perception, and argues that what we see is not what we perceive. He investigates recent insights gained from the use of imaging techniques, and the attempts to model perceptual processes in AI systems.

Direct Perception

Direct Perception
Author: Claire F. Michaels
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1981
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Skepticism and the Veil of Perception

Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
Author: Michael Huemer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780742512535

In opposition to both skeptics and representationalists, Huemer (philosophy, U. of Colorado, Boulder) presents a theory of perceptual awareness, according to which perception gives us direct awareness of real objects and non-inferential knowledge of the properties of these objects. He responds to the major arguments for skepticism, including the infinite regress argument, the problem of the criterion, the brain in the vat, and the impossibility of verification. c. Book News Inc.

Lectures on Perception

Lectures on Perception
Author: Michael T. Turvey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2018-10-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429813384

Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (e.g., difflugia) to multi-celled organisms (e.g., primates)—perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively. It focuses on the fundamental ability that relates each and every organism to its surroundings, namely, the ability to perceive things in the sense of how to get about among them and what to do, or not to do, with them. The book’s core thesis breaks from the conventional interpretation of perception as a form of abduction based on innate hypotheses and acquired knowledge, and from the historical scientific focus on the perceptual abilities of animals, most especially those abilities ascribed to humankind. Specifically, it advances the thesis of perception as a matter of laws and principles at nature’s ecological scale, and gives equal theoretical consideration to the perceptual achievements of all of the classically defined ‘kingdoms’ of organisms—Archaea, Bacteria, Protoctista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.

Perception and its Objects

Perception and its Objects
Author: Bill Brewer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191511625

Bill Brewer presents, motivates, and defends a bold new solution to a fundamental problem in the philosophy of perception. What is the correct theoretical conception of perceptual experience, and how should we best understand the most fundamental nature of our perceptual relation with the physical objects in the world around us? Most theorists today analyse perception in terms of its representational content, in large part in order to avoid fatal problems attending the early modern conception of perception as a relation with particular mind-dependent objects of experience. Having set up the underlying problem and explored the lessons to be learnt from the various difficulties faced by opposing early modern responses to it, Bill Brewer argues that this contemporary approach has serious problems of its own. Furthermore, the early modern insight that perception is most fundamentally to be construed as a relation of conscious acquaintance with certain direct objects of experience is, he claims, perfectly consistent with the commonsense identification of such direct objects with persisting mind-independent physical objects themselves. Brewer here provides a critical, historical account of the philosophy of perception, in order to present a defensible vindication of empirical realism.

Perception and Its Modalities

Perception and Its Modalities
Author: Dustin Stokes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199832811

This volume is about the many ways we perceive. Contributors explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell us about the world, and how they interrelate. The volume begins to develop better paradigms for understanding the senses and perception.

Visual Perception and Action in Sport

Visual Perception and Action in Sport
Author: A. Mark Williams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1999
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780419182900

This book provides a detailed review of much of the existing research on visual perception and sports performance. It summarises and integrates the findings of up to five hundred articles from areas as diverse as cognitive and ecological psychology.

The Problem of Perception

The Problem of Perception
Author: A. D. Smith
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005
Genre: Perception (Philosophy)
ISBN: 9788120820241

In a major Contribution to the theory of perception, A.D.Smith presents a truly original defense of direct realism the view that in perception we are directly aware of things in a physical world. It offers two arguements against direct realism-one conceening illusion, and one concerning hallueination that upto now no theory of perception could adequately rebut.At the heart of Smiths theory is a new way of drawing the distinction between perception and sensation alone with an unusual treatment of the nature of object of halluecination .

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology
Author: Michael W. Eysenck
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2000
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780863775505

This is a thorough revision and updating of the extremely successful third edition. As in previous editions, the following three perspectives are considered in depth: experimental cognitive psychology; cognitive science, with its focus on cognitive modelling; and cognitive neuropsychology with its focus on cognition following brain damage. In addition, and new to this edition, is detailed discussion of the cognitive neuroscience perspective, which uses advanced brain-scanning techniques to clarify the functioning of the human brain. There is detailed coverage of the dynamic impact of these four perspectives on the main areas of cognitive psychology, including perception, attention, memory, knowledge representation, categorisation, language, problem-solving, reasoning, and judgement. The aim is to provide comprehensive coverage that is up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible. All existing chapters have been extensively revised and re-organised. Some of the topics receiving much greater coverage in this edition are: brain structures in perception, visual attention, implicit learning, brain structures in memory, prospective memory, exemplar theories of categorisation, language comprehension, connectionist models in perception, neuroscience studies of thinking, judgement, and decision making. Cognitive Psychology: A Students Handbookwill be essential reading for undergraduate students of psychology. It will also be of interest to students taking related courses in computer science, education, linguistics, physiology, and medicine.