Perception

by Tom Troscianko

• ISBN13: 9781848600935
• ISBN10: 1848600933
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-26
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

This collection brings together the major papers in the field of Perception. This is a rich area, both in terms of history, and the breadth of the subject, which covers all five sensory modalities. The articles included range from recent influential reviews to introduce an area and historical and classic material to leading-edge recent work which may challenge accepted practice. The aim is to provide a feel for the dynamism of the field - this is often illustrated by major debates between various positions.Perception begins with an introduction by the editors. Tom Troscianko has been Executive Editor of the journal Perception for twenty years, and has published widely in the area. Alastair Smith is a researcher who has published influential papers and whose interests lie at the intersection of several of the sets making up this work. The introductory chapter serves as a navigation guide through the rest of the collection, and summarises the major debates and advances from what was, initially, a topic within philosophy through to the present neuroscientific basis of the field.Volumes One and Two focuses on visual perception as vision is the most widely-researched modality, and these volumes include classic readings on the topic, from the perception of form, colour, and motion, to the grouping of these elements to facilitate the recognition. Volume Three covers hearing and touch; papers on hearing cover basic perception of acoustic signals, typified by the fundamental research carried out by Bell Laboratories, and continue this through to work by Bregman that describes auditory stream segregation and auditory illusions. Touch is represented by research on low-level perception of physical stimuli through to the feeling of pain. Volume Four looks the chemical senses of taste and smell - two closely-related systems. Furthermore, this volume illustrates how theorists have characterised the integration of perceptual systems, and how they interact in the multi-modal world.This major work will prove to be a valuable resource for scholars in Psychology and related disciplines who wish to access this body of knowledge.

Table of Contents

Visual Sensation

Single Units and Sensation: A neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology?

On the Existence of Neurones in the Human Visual System Selectively Sensitive to the Orientation and Size of Retinal Images

Innate and Environmental Factors in the Development of the Kitten's Visual Cortex

The Information Available in Pictures

Perceived Lightness Depends on Perceived Spatial Arrangement

Inhibitory Interaction of Receptor Units in the Eye of Limulus

The Dark Adaptation of Retinal Fields of Different Size and Location

Receptive Fields, Binocular Interaction and Functional Architecture in the Cat's Visual Cortex

Texton Gradients: The texton theory revisited

Preattentive Texture Discrimination with Early Vision Mechanisms

Theory of Edge Detection

"Tho' she kneel'd in that place where they grew" - The Uses and Origins of Primate Colour Vision

Neural Foundations of Visual Motion Perception

The Law which Underlies Protective Coloration

Camouflage and Visual Perception

Selective Disturbance of Movement Vision after Bilateral Brain Damage

Visual Perception

Activity in the Fusiform Gyrus Predicts Conscious Perception of Rubin's Vase-Face Illusion

Recognition-by-Components: A theory of human image understanding

The Neural Correlates of Conscious Experience: An experimental framework

Perceptual Awareness and its Loss in Unilateral Neglect and Extinction

Visual Search and Stimulus Similarity

Identification of Familiar and Unfamiliar Faces from Internal and External Features: Some implications for theories of face recognition

Knowledge in Perception and Illusion

Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision

Neural Representation of Objects in Space: A dual coding account

Common Mechanisms of Visual Imagery and Perception

Gestalt Psychology

To See or Not To See: The need for attention to perceive changes in scenes

Gorillas in Our Midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events

Margaret Thatcher: A new illusion

Two Categorical Stages of Object Recognition

A Saliency-Based Search Mechanism for Overt and Covert Shifts of Visual Attention

Audition and Haptic

Auditory Segregation: Stream or Streams?

Some Experiments on the Recognition of Speech with One and with Two Ears

The Active Cochlea

Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition: Past and present

Music and the Brain: Disorders of musical listening

The Nature of Music from a Biological Perspective

Selective Attention in Man

Auditory Induction: Perceptual synthesis of absent sounds

Why Can't You Tickle Yourself?

The Frequency Selectivity of Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System

Neural Coding in the Sense of Touch: Human sensations of skin indentation compared with the responses of slowly adapting mechanoreceptive afferents innervating the hairy skin of monkeys

Parallel and Serial Processing of Haptic Information in Man: Effects of parietal lesions on sensorimotor hand function

Pain Mechanisms: A new theory

Hand Movements: A window into haptic object recognition

The Perception of Phantom Limbs

Mass Discrimination during Prolonged Weightlessness

Chemical Senses and Perceptual Integration

Cognitive Modulation of Olfactory Processing

The Psychophysics of Taste

Duplexity Theory of Taste

Development of Taste Perception in Humans: Sensitivity and preference throughout the life span

Olfactory Coding in the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb

Taste Reception

Brain Mechanisms for Extracting Spatial Information from Smell

Taste Perception in Patients with Insular Cortex Lesions

The Human Sense of Smell: Are we better than we think?

Odor/Taste Integration and the Perception of Flavor

Crossmodal Attention

Separate Neural Pathways for the Viisual Analysis of Object Shape in Perception and Prehension

The Nose Smells What the Eye Sees: Crossmodal visual facilitation of Human olfactory perception

The Roles of Vision and Eye Movements in the Control of Activities of Daily Living

On the Similarity of Odor and Language Perception

Activation of Auditory Cortex During Silent Lipreading

Visual Capture of Touch: Out-of-the-body experiences with rubber gloves

Mechanisms of Synaesthesia: Cognitive and physiological constraints

On the Use of Drawing Tasks in Neuropsychological Assessment

Cross-modal Recognition of Shape from Hand to Eyes in Human Newborns

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