Perception, action, and consciousness Sensorimotor Dynamics and Two Visual Systems

by Gangopadhyay, Nivedita; Madary, Michael; Spicer, Finn

• ISBN13: 9780199551118
• ISBN10: 0199551111
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

What is the relationship between perception and action? This question is bound up with issues which are at the heart of the philosophy and sciences of the mind.

Author Biography

Nivedita Gangopadhyaypursued her doctoral degree at the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS/EHESS/ENS), Paris, France under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Casati. She received her PhD in 2007 with the mention of "Tres Honorable Avec Felicitations" with a unanimous jury. In 2007 she joined the Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK as the Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the CONTACT project funded by the AHRC under the ESF Eurocores Consciousness in Natural and Cultural Contexts (CNCC) scheme. She worked with Professor Susan Hurley and Dr. Finn Spicer in the CONTACT project. She participated in the CONTACT project till February 2010.

She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Michael Madary received his Ph.D. from Tulane University in 2007. He participated in the Consciousness in Interaction (CONTACT) research project at the University of Bristol with Susan Hurley and Finn Spicer as Principal Investigators from 2007 to 2009. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Tulane University

Finn Spicer is a philosopher of mind, and epistemologist.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Perception, action, and consciousness	p. 1
Consciousness and sensorimotor dynamics: methodological issues	p. 19
Computational consciousness	p. 21
Explaining what people say about sensory qualia	p. 31
Perception, action, and experience: unravelling the golden braid	p. 51
The two-visual systems hypothesis	p. 69
Cortical visual systems for perception and action	p. 71
Hermann Lotze's Theory of 'Local Sign': evidence from pointing responses in an illusory figure	p. 95
Understanding agency and object perception	p. 105
Two visual systems and the feeling of presence	p. 107
Spatial coordinates and phenomenology in the two visual systems model	p. 125
Perceptual experience and the capacity to act	p. 145
Perception and action: studies in cognitive neuroscience	p. 161
Why does the perception-action functional dichotomy not match the ventral-dorsal streams anatomical segregation: optic ataxia and the function of the dorsal stream	p. 163
Mapping the neglect syndrome onto neurofunctional streams	p. 183
Motor representations and the perception of space: perceptual judgments of the boundary of action space	p. 217
The role of action and sensorimotor knowledge in sensorimotor theories of perception	p. 243
Vision without representation	p. 245
Sensorimotor knowledge and the contents of experience	p. 257
Boundaries of the agent	p. 275
Extended vision	p. 277
Author Index	p. 291
Subject Index	p. 297
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