Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Detection Theory
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Detection Theory is an introduction to one of the most important tools for analysis of data where choices must be made and performance is not perfect. Originally developed for evaluation of electronic detection, detection theory was adopted by psychologists as a way to understand sensory decision...
Psychophysics
The Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This third edition of a classic text which was first published in 1976 is the only comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of psychophysics currently available. It has been used by undergraduate and graduate students, and scholars throughout the world and is consistently thought of as the best single...
Geometric Representations of Perceptual Phenomena
Papers in Honor of Tarow indow on His 70th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Based on a conference held in honor of Professor Tarow Indow, this volume is organized into three major topics concerning the use of geometry in perception:
* space -- referring to attempts to represent the subjective space within which we locate ourselves and perceive objects to reside;
* color --...
Computational, Geometric, and Process Perspectives on Facial Cognition
Contexts and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
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...
Grounds for Cognition
How Goal-guided Behavior Shapes the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Q: Why do organisms need cognition?
A: To get information about their environments.
Q: Why such information?
A: Because organisms need to guide their behaviors to goals.
Q: Why guidance?
A: Because it leads to goal satisfaction.
Q: Why goals?
Cognition...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
There has been an increasing interest in the application of dynamical systems to the study of development over the last decade. The explosion of the dynamical systems framework in the physical and biological sciences has opened the door to a new Zeitgeist for studying development. This appeal to dynamical...
Brain and Values
Is A Biological Science of Values Possible?
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This 5th volume of the Appalachian Conference discusses how the brain processes information, the role of memory and value, and models of creativity. It pursues aspects of cognitive neuroscience and behavioral neurodynamics, such as the topic of values and quantum-distributed processing in the brain.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A year before his death, B.F. Skinner wrote that "There are two unavoidable gaps in any behavioral account: one between the stimulating action of the environment and the response of the organism and one between consequences and the resulting change in behavior. Only brain science can fill those...
Persistence and Change
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Event Perception
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Perceptual Organization in Vision
Behavioral and Neural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
This book presents an overview of different frameworks for understanding perceptual organization, and a state-of-the-art summary of the domain. It describes findings from visual search, illusory contours, and object recognition using electrophysiological measures.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The chapters in this book are based on papers presented at the 23rd Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition. At this exciting event, speaker after speaker presented new discoveries about infants' visual perception in areas ranging from sensory processes to visual cognition. The field continues to make...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Beginning with his doctoral dissertation in 1950 which introduced the study of event perception and the application of vector analysis to perception, Gunnar Johansson has been a seminal figure in the field of perception. His work on biomechanical motion in the 1970s challenged conventional notions...
by William R. Uttal
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Originally published in 1973, this book deals with what were, even at that time, the well-known neural coding processes of the sensory transmission processes. The book was written to demonstrate the common features of the various senses. It concentrates on the most peripheral neural aspects of the...
Designing for Science
Implications From Everyday, Classroom, and Professional Settings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
This volume explores the integration of recent research on everyday, classroom, and professional scientific thinking. It brings together an international group of researchers to present core findings from each context; discuss connections between contexts, and explore structures; technologies, and...