Perceptual Ecology

Author : Edward C. Carterette,Morton P. Friedman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483276236

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Perceptual Ecology by Edward C. Carterette,Morton P. Friedman Pdf

Handbook of Perception, Volume X: Perceptual Ecology, deals with perceptual aspects of the study of interaction of persons with their environment. The book is organized into six parts. Part I examines an ecological approach to the perceptual systems and cultural differences in perception. Part II is devoted to impaired perception and action. It includes studies on perception by the deaf and blind, and outlines the intellectual principles necessary for understanding sensory aids. Part III on aesthetics covers central problem of aesthetic theories and the generation and measurement of aesthetic forms. Part IV on architecture, music, art, and cinema discusses the perceptual aspects of architecture; the psychology of music; and the perception of art and motion pictures. Part V deals with the role of olfactory hedonics in perfumery and the assessment and abatement of noxious odors; and food habits, gastronomy, and analysis of flavors and foods. Part VI focuses on parapsychology. It reviews experimental evidence on telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis in order to assess the status of parapsychology and show why it is paradoxy, outside of accepted opinion, after some 100 years of psychic research.

Author : Michael T. Turvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429813382

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Lectures on Perception by Michael T. Turvey Pdf

Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (e.g., difflugia) to multi-celled organisms (e.g., primates)—perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively. It focuses on the fundamental ability that relates each and every organism to its surroundings, namely, the ability to perceive things in the sense of how to get about among them and what to do, or not to do, with them. The book’s core thesis breaks from the conventional interpretation of perception as a form of abduction based on innate hypotheses and acquired knowledge, and from the historical scientific focus on the perceptual abilities of animals, most especially those abilities ascribed to humankind. Specifically, it advances the thesis of perception as a matter of laws and principles at nature’s ecological scale, and gives equal theoretical consideration to the perceptual achievements of all of the classically defined ‘kingdoms’ of organisms—Archaea, Bacteria, Protoctista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.

Author : James J. Gibson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135059736

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The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception by James J. Gibson Pdf

This is a book about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures); where we are in the environment; whether or not we are moving and, if we are, where we are going; what things are good for; how to do things (to thread a needle or drive an automobile); or why things look as they do. The basic assumption is that vision depends on the eye which is connected to the brain. The author suggests that natural vision depends on the eyes in the head on a body supported by the ground, the brain being only the central organ of a complete visual system. When no constraints are put on the visual system, people look around, walk up to something interesting and move around it so as to see it from all sides, and go from one vista to another. That is natural vision -- and what this book is about.

Author : Mitchell Thomashow
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262264927

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Bringing the Biosphere Home by Mitchell Thomashow Pdf

A guide for understanding the ecological and existential aspects of global environmental change. This book shows how to make global environmental problems more tangible, so that they become an integral part of everyday awareness. At its core is a simple assumption: that the best way to learn to perceive the biosphere is to pay close attention to our immediate surroundings. Through local natural history observations, imagination and memory, and spiritual contemplation, we develop a place-based environmental view that can be expanded to encompass the biosphere. Interweaving global change science, personal narrative, and commentary on a wide range of scientific and literary works, the book explores both the ecological and existential aspects of urgent issues such as the loss of biodiversity and global climate change. Written in a warm, engaging style, Bringing the Biosphere Home considers the perceptual connections between the local and global, how the ecological news of the community is of interest to the world, and how the global movement of people, species, and weather systems affects the local community. It shows how global environmental change can become the province of numerous educational initiatives—from the classroom to the Internet, from community forums to international conferences, from the backyard to the biosphere. It explains important scientific concepts in clear, nontechnical language and provides dozens of ideas for learning how to practice biospheric perception.

Author : Morton P. Friedman,Edward C. Carterette
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780080529271

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Cognitive Ecology by Morton P. Friedman,Edward C. Carterette Pdf

Cognitive Ecology identifies the richness of input to our sensory evaluations, from our cultural heritage and philosophies of aesthetics to perceptual cognition and judgment. Integrating the arts, humanities, and sciences, Cognitive Ecology investigates the relationship of perception and cognition to wider issues of how science is conducted, and how the questions we ask about perception influence the answers we find. Part One discusses how issues of the human mind are inseparable from the culture from which the investigations arise, how mind and environment co-define experience and actions, and how culture otherwise influences cognitive function. Part Two outlines how philosophical themes of aesthetics have guided psychological research, and discuss the physical and aesthetic perception of music, film, and art. Part Three presents an overview of how the senses interact for sensory evaluation.

Author : John M. Flach,Peter A. Hancock,Jeff Caird,Kim J. Vicente
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351444651

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Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems by John M. Flach,Peter A. Hancock,Jeff Caird,Kim J. Vicente Pdf

There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a viable alternative, presenting a richer view of human behavior that is holistic and contextualized. The papers presented in these two volumes show the conceptual impact that ecological psychology can have on HF/E, as well as presenting a number of specific examples illustrating the ecological approach to human-machine systems. It is the first collection of papers that explicitly draws a connection between these two fields. While work in this area is only just beginning, the evidence available suggests that taking an ecological approach to human factors/ergonomics helps bridge the existing gap between basic research and applied problems.

Author : Thomas J. Lombardo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315514390

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The Reciprocity of Perceiver and Environment by Thomas J. Lombardo Pdf

Originally published in 1987, this title intended to historically reveal, through tracing Gibson’s development, the substance of his views and how they bore upon general philosophical issues in theories of knowledge, and to investigate in detail the historical context of Gibson’s theoretical position within psychology. Though the author has included a history of Gibson’s perceptual research and experimentation, the focus is to explicate the ‘dynamic abstract form’ of Gibson’s ecological approach. His emphasis is philosophical and theoretical, attempting to bring out the direction Gibson was moving in and how such changes could restructure the theoretical fabric of psychology. He devotes considerable attention to the Greeks, Medievalists, and the founders of the Scientific Revolution. This is because Gibson’s theoretical challenge runs deep into the structure of western thought. The authors’ central goal was to set Gibson’s ecological theory within the historical context of fundamental philosophical-scientific issues.

Author : Edward C. Carterette,Morton P. Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0121619109

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Handbook of perception by Edward C. Carterette,Morton P. Friedman Pdf

Author : Eleanor J. Gibson,Anne D. Pick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0195347390

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An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development by Eleanor J. Gibson,Anne D. Pick Pdf

The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being "blank slates" that passively absorb environmental stimuli, infants are active learners who perceptually engage their environments and extract information from them before language is available. The ecological approach to perceiving-defined as "a theory about perceiving by active creatures who look and listen and move around"-was spearheaded by Eleanor and James Gibson in the 1950s and culminated in James Gibson's last book in 1979. Until now, no comprehensive theoretical statement of ecological development has been published since Eleanor Gibson's Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development (1969). In An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development, distinguished experimental psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Anne D. Pick provide a unique theoretical framework for the ecological approach to understanding perceptual learning and development. Perception, in accordance with James Gibson's views, entails a reciprocal relationship between a person and his or her environment: The environment provides resources and opportunities for the person, and the person gets information from and acts on the environment. The concept of affordance is central to this idea; the person acts on what the environment affords, as it is appropriate. This extraordinary volume covers the development of perception in detail from birth through toddlerhood, beginning with the development of communication, going on to perceiving and acting on objects, and then to locomotion. It is more than a presentation of facts about perception as it develops. It outlines the ecological approach and shows how it underlies "higher" cognitive processes, such as concept formation, as well as discovery of the basic affordances of the environment. This impressive work should serve as the capstone for Eleanor J. Gibson's distinguished career as a developmental and experimental psychologist.

Author : Leslie Main Johnson,Eugene S. Hunn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857456328

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Landscape Ethnoecology by Leslie Main Johnson,Eugene S. Hunn Pdf

Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored "place" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of "kinds of place," or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective. In this volume, indigenous and local understandings of landscape are investigated in order to better understand how human communities relate to their terrestrial and aquatic resources. The contributors go beyond the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) literature and offer valuable insights on ecology and on land and resources management, emphasizing the perception of landscape above the level of species and their folk classification. Focusing on the ways traditional people perceive and manage land and biotic resources within diverse regional and cultural settings, the contributors address theoretical issues and present case studies from North America, Mexico, Amazonia, tropical Asia, Africa and Europe.

Author : Edward C. Carterette,Morton P. Friedman
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483276229

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Perceptual Coding by Edward C. Carterette,Morton P. Friedman Pdf

Handbook of Perception, Volume VIII: Perceptual Coding covers perceptual coding of space, time, and objects, including sensory memory systems and the relations between verbal and perceptual codes. This volume contains contributions that focus on such subjects as the compound eye; the problems of the perceptual constancies and of intersensory coordination in perceptual development; the visual perception of objects in space; and perception of motion. Topics on the perception of color, the representation of temporal, auditory, and haptic perception; and the relationship between verbal and perceptual codes are discussed in detail as well. This book will be of use to psychologists, biologists, and those interested in the study of perceptual codes.

Author : Jeffrey B. Wagman,Julia J. C. Blau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000063851

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Perception as Information Detection by Jeffrey B. Wagman,Julia J. C. Blau Pdf

This book provides a chapter-by-chapter update to and reflection on of the landmark volume by J.J. Gibson on the Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979). Gibson’s book was presented a pioneering approach in experimental psychology; it was his most complete and mature description of the ecological approach to visual perception. Perception as Information Detection commemorates, develops, and updates each of the sixteen chapters from Gibson’s volume. The book brings together some of the foremost perceptual scientists in the field, from the United States, Europe, and Asia, to reflect on Gibson’s original chapters, expand on the key concepts discussed and relate this to their own cutting-edge research. This connects Gibson’s classic with the current state of the field, as well as providing a new generation of students with a contemporary overview of the ecological approach to visual perception. Perception as Information Detection is an important resource for perceptual scientists as well as both undergraduates and graduates studying sensation and perception, vision, cognitive science, ecological psychology, and philosophy of mind.

Author : Ronald G. Boothe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780387987903

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Perception of the Visual Environment by Ronald G. Boothe Pdf

Aimed at students taking a course on visual perception, this textbook considers what it means for a man, a monkey and a computer to perceive the world. After an introduction and a discussion of methods, the book deals with how the environment produces a physical effect, how the resulting "image" is processed by the brain or by computer algorithms in order to produce a perception of "something out there". It also discusses color, form, motion, distance, and also the sensing of three dimensionality, before dealing with visual perception and its role in awareness and consciousness. The book concludes with discussions of perceptual development, blindness, and visual disorders. Visual perception is by its very nature an interdisciplinary subject that requires a basic understanding of a range of topics from diverse fields, and this is a very readable guide to all students whether they come from a neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, robotics, or philosophy background.

Author : Jesse Matz
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421427003

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Modernist Time Ecology by Jesse Matz Pdf

Modernist Time Ecology is a deeply interdisciplinary book that changes what we think literature and the arts can do for the world at large.

Author : SWAINE
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483297576

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Handbook of Perception: Perceptual Processing by SWAINE Pdf

Handbook of Perception: Perceptual Processing v. 9