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Perception and cognition at century's end

Title: Perception and cognition at century's end / edited by Julian Hochberg.
Publication: San Diego : Academic Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Hochberg, Julian E.

Description

xix, 487 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Perception and Cognition at Century's End contains cognitive psychology surveys that are up-to-date and historically based, as well as references to the development of cognitive psychology over the past century. This book can serve as a central or specialized text for a range of psychology courses.

Series Statement

Handbook of perception and cognition (2nd ed.)

Uniform Title

Handbook of perception and cognition (2nd ed.)

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. A Context for the Second Half of the Century: One View / Julian Hochberg -- 2. Philosophy, Perception, and Cognitive Science / Mark Rollins -- 3. Consciousness and Mind as Philosophical Problems and Psychological Issues / George Mandler -- 4. Information from the World around Us / James E. Cutting -- 5. Illusions at Century's End / Barbara J. Gillam -- 6. Pictures and Their Special Status in Perceptual and Cognitive Inquiry / James E. Cutting and Manfredo Massironi -- 7. The Internalization of Perceptual Processing Constraints / Dennis R. Proffitt and Mary K. Kaiser -- 8. A Century of Human Information-Processing Theory: Vision, Attention, and Memory / Barbara Anne Dosher and George Sperling -- 9. Gestalt Theory and Its Legacy: Organization in Eye and Brain, in Attention and Mental Representation / Julian Hochberg -- 10. Vision Fin de Siecle: A Reductionistic Explanation of Perception for the 21st Century? / Ken Nakayama --
11. Nature, Nurture, and Development / Elizabeth S. Spelke -- 12. Language and Action: Current Challenges / Charles E. Wright and Barbara Landau -- 13. Concepts and Categorization / Douglas L. Medin and John D. Coley -- 14. Imagery, Visualization, and Thinking / P. N. Johnson-Laird.

ISBN

0123011604

LCCN

98084439

OCLC

ocm39955566

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries