Perception and Visual Cognition
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A Behaviorist Looks at Form Recognition
For many years behaviorism was criticized because it rejected the study of perception. This rejection was based on the extreme view that percepts were internal subjective experiences and thus not subject to examination. This book argues that this logic is incorrect and shows how visual perception,...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Attention in Vision
Perception, Communication and Action
Attention in Vision is an important work which aims to identify, address and solve some major problems and issues in the psychology of visual perception, attention and intentional control. The central aim is to investigate how people use their visual perception in the performance of tasks and to...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Auditory Sound Transmission
An Autobiographical Perspective
Auditory Sound Transmission provides an integrated, state-of-the-art description and quantitative analysis of sound transmission from the outer ear to the sensory cells in the cochlea of the inner ear. It describes in detail the structures and mechanisms involved and gives their input and...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Computational, Geometric, and Process Perspectives on Facial Cognition
Contexts and Challenges
Series: Scientific Psychology Series
Within the last three decades, interest in the psychological experience of human faces has drawn together cognitive science researchers from diverse backgrounds. Computer scientists talk to neural scientists who draw on the work of mathematicians who explicitly influence those conducting behavioral...
Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press
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Introduction to the Theories of Measurement and Meaningfulness and the Use of Symmetry in Science
Series: Scientific Psychology Series
This book is designed to be an introduction to the theories of measurement and meaningfulness, and not a comprehensive study of those topics. A major theme of this book is the psychophysical measurement of subjective intensity. This has been a subject of intense interest in psychology from the very...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Measurement and Representation of Sensations
Series: Scientific Psychology Series
Measurement and Representation of Sensations offers a glimpse into the most sophisticated current mathematical approaches to psychophysical problems. In this book, editors Hans Colonius and Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, top scholars in the field, present a broad spectrum of innovative approaches and...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Perceiving the Affordances
A Portrait of Two Psychologists
Perceiving the Affordances is a personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, the groundbreaking research psychologist who was influential in the founding of the theory of perceptual development. It is also a biography of her husband, James J. Gibson, who was a major perceptual...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Psychology of Music
From Sound to Significance
Why are some disturbances of air molecules heard as 'noise' while others are perceived as music? What happens at the level of the sound wave, the ear, and the brain when we perform or listen to music? How do musical abilities emerge and develop, and become refined as one acquires musical expertise?...
Published January 14th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Psychophysics Beyond Sensation
Laws and Invariants of Human Cognition
Series: Scientific Psychology Series
This volume presents a series of studies that expand laws, invariants, and principles of psychophysics beyond its classical domain of sensation. This book's goal is to demonstrate the extent of the domain of psychophysics, ranging from sensory processes, through sensory memory and short-term memory...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Purkinje's Vision
The Dawning of Neuroscience
The life of Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869) has fascinated students from many disciplines. Histologists marvel at his early descriptions of cells; physiologists admire his attempts to relate structure to function; pharmacologists view in awe his heroic experiments on self-administered drugs;...
Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Rehabilitation of Visual Disorders After Brain Injury
2nd Edition
Series: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: A Modular Handbook
This thoroughly updated and extended edition covers the various cerebral visual disorders acquired after brain injury, as well as the rehabilitation techniques used to treat them. These are described within a brain plasticity framework, using data from single and group case studies along with...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Space and Sense
Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology
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...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Space, Objects, Minds and Brains
Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology
Lynn Robertson has been studying how brain lesions affect spatial abilities for over 20 years, and her work has revealed some surprising facts about space and its role in visual perception. In this book she combines evidence collected in her laboratory with findings from others to explore the...
Published December 4th 2012 by Psychology Press
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Studies in Perception and Action VIII
Thirteenth international Conference on Perception and Action
Series: Studies in Perception and Action
Since 1991, the edited book series Studies in Perception and Action has appeared in conjunction with the biennial International Conference of Perception and Action (ICPA), a conference that provides an opportunity for individuals who share interests in ecological psychology to come together to...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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The Auditory Cortex
A Synthesis of Human and Animal Research
Understanding human hearing is not only a scientific challenge but also a problem of growing social and political importance, given the steadily increasing numbers of people with hearing deficits or even deafness. This book is about the highest level of hearing in humans and other mammals. It...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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The Intelligent Ear
On the Nature of Sound Perception
Plomp's Aspects of Tone Sensation--published 25 years ago--dealt with the psychophysics of simple and complex tones. Since that time, auditory perception as a field of study has undergone a radical metamorphosis. Technical and methodological innovations, as well as a considerable increase in...
Published May 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press
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The Orienting Response in Information Processing
This book is a testimony to Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov's years of work in developing knowledge in the areas of perception, information processing and attention, and to the research it has spawned. It presents a historical account of a research program, leading the reader toward a cognitive science...
Published May 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press