Perception
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Face Perception
- By Vicki Bruce, and Andy Young.
Published December 2011
Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In…
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Measurement With Persons
Theory, Methods, and Implementation Areas
- Edited by Birgitta Berglund, Giovanni B. Rossi, James T. Townsend and Leslie R. Pendrill.
Published December 2011
Measurements with persons are those in which human perception and interpretation are used for measuring complex, holistic quantities and qualities, which are perceived by the human brain and mind. Providing means for reproducible measurement of parameters such as pleasure and pain has important…
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Phenomenology of Perception
- By Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
- Translated by Donald Landes.
- Foreword by Taylor Carman.
- Introduction by Claude Lefort.
Published November 2011
First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Phénoménologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the…
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Studies in Perception and Action XI
Sixteenth International Conference on Perception and Action
- Edited by Eric P. Charles, and L. James Smart.
Published August 2011
This volume is the 11th in the Studies in Perception and Action series and contains research presented at the 16th International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA) meeting in the summer of 2011.
ICPA provides a forum for presenting new data, theory, and methodological developments relevant…
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Essentials of Sensation and Perception
- By George Mather.
Published May 2011
The study of sensation and perception looks at how we acquire, process, and interpret information about the outside world. By describing key ideas from first principles, this straightforward introduction provides easy access to the basic concepts in the subject, and incorporates the most recent…
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Tutorials in Visual Cognition
- Edited by Veronika Coltheart.
Published January 2010
In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many remarkable new aspects of the processing of…
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Studies in Perception and Action X
Fifteenth International Conference on Perception and Action
- Edited by Jeffrey B. Wagman, and Christopher C. Pagano.
Published June 2009
This volume is the 10th in the Studies in Perception and Action series and contains research presented at the 15th International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA) meeting in the summer of 2009.
ICPA provides a forum for presenting new data, theory, and methodological developments relevant…
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Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System
A Psychophysical and Physiological Analysis
- By George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright and Ronald T. Verrillo.
Published December 2008
Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System addresses the fundamental question of whether sensory channels, similar to those known to operate in vision and audition, also operate in the sense of touch. Based on the results of psychophysical and neurophysiological experimentation…
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Foundations of Sensation and Perception
Second Edition
- By George Mather.
Published December 2008
This comprehensive introduction to Sensation and Perception has been highly praised for its unique approach, which begins with the minor senses and progresses to vision.
The book begins with an introductory chapter on general physiological, perceptual and theoretical principles which…
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Integrative Approaches to Perception and Action
A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Edited by Nicola Bruno, and P. Paolo Battaglini.
Published December 2008
The special issue aims at providing a forum for empirical and theoretical research on the integration of perceptual and motor processes in the human mind. Integrative approaches to perception and action have proved fruitful in several areas, including large-scale questions pertaining to the…
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