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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
- Edited 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…
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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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Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action
- Edited by Roberta L. Klatzky, Brian MacWhinney and Marlene Behrmann.
Published June 2008
The majority of research on human perception and action examines sensors and effectors in relative isolation. What is less often considered in these research domains is that humans interact with a perceived world in which they themselves are part of the perceptual representation, as are the…
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Space and Sense
- By Susanna Millar.
Published April 2008
How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute?
This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on…
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The Frog who Croaked Blue
Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses
- By Jamie Ward.
Published March 2008
As little Edgar Curtis lay on his porch, he remarked to his mother how the noise of the rifle range was black, the chirp of the cricket was red, and the croak of the frog was bluish. Edgar, like many other people, has synesthesia - a fascinating condition in which music can have color, words can…
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Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception
- Edited by John J. Rieser, Daniel H. Ashmead, Ford Ebner and Anne L. Corn.
Published August 2007
Research into the development of sensory structures in the brains of blind or visually-impaired individuals has opened a window into important ways in which the mind works. In these individuals, the part of the brain that is usually devoted to processing visual information is given over to…
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Studies in Perception and Action IX
Fourteenth International Conference on Perception and Action
- Edited by Sarah Cummins-Sebree, Michael A. Riley and Kevin Shockley.
Published July 2007
The edited book series Studies in Perception and Action contains a collection of research presented at the International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA). The Studies series has appeared in conjunction with the biennial ICPA since 1991. ICPA provides a forum for presenting new data,…
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