Perception Beyond Inference

Unmarked. Dust jacket. 525p. Illustrated.

Authors include Liliana Albertazzi, Ohad Ben-Sahar. Ernest Edmonds, Timothy L. Hubbard, Amy Ione, Jan J. Koenderink, Ilona Kovacs, Rainer Mausfeld, Baingio Pinna, Shinsuke Shimojo, Gert J. van Tonder, Dhanraj Vishwanath and Stephen W. Zucker.

From Publisher:

This book breaks with the conventional model of perception that views vision as a mere inference to an objective reality on the basis of inverse optics. The authors offer the alternative view that perception is an expressive and awareness-generating process. Perception creates semantic information in such a way as to enable the observer to deal efficaciously with the chaotic and meaningless structure present at the physical boundary between the body and its surroundings. Vision is intentional by its very nature; visual qualities are essential and real, providing an aesthetic and meaningful interface to the structures of physics and the state of the brain. This view brings perception firmly in line with ethology and modern evolutionary biology and suggests new approaches in all disciplines that study, or require an understanding of, the ontology of mind.

The book is the joint effort of a multidisciplinary group of authors. Topics covered include the relationships among stimuli, neuronal processes, and visual awareness. After considering the mind-dependent growing of information, the book treats time and dynamics; color, shape, and space; language and perception; perception, art, and design.

Product Info

ISBN: 0262015021

ISBN-13: 9780262015028

Publisher: MIT Press

Year: 2011

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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