Ten Lectures On The Representation Of Events In Language Perception Memory And Action Control

Author : Jeffrey M. Zacks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004395164

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Ten Lectures on the Representation of Events in Language, Perception, Memory, and Action Control by Jeffrey M. Zacks Pdf

"The representation of events is a central topic for cognitive science. In this series of lectures, Jeffrey M. Zacks situates event representations and their role in language within a theory of perception and memory. Event representations have a distinctive structure and format that result from computational and neural mechanisms operating during perception and language comprehension. A crucial aspect of the mechanisms is that event representations are updated to optimize their predictive utility. This updating has consequences for action control and for long-term memory. Event cognition changes across the adult lifespan and can be impaired by conditions including Alzheimer's disease. These mechanisms have broad impact on everyday activity, and have shaped the development of media such as cinema and narrative fiction"--

Author : Gabriel A. Radvansky,Jeffrey M. Zacks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199898145

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Event Cognition by Gabriel A. Radvansky,Jeffrey M. Zacks Pdf

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world, simulate events that we hear or read about, and use our knowledge of events to solve problems. In this book, Gabriel A. Radvansky and Jeffrey M. Zacks provide the first integrated framework for event cognition and attempt to synthesize the available psychological and neuroscience data surrounding it. This synthesis leads to new proposals about several traditional areas in psychology and neuroscience including perception, attention, language understanding, memory, and problem solving. Radvansky and Zacks have written this book with a diverse readership in mind. It is intended for a range of researchers working within cognitive science including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, and education. Readers curious about events more generally such as those working in literature, film theory, and history will also find it of interest.

Author : Thomas F. Shipley,Jeffrey M. Zacks
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015073868666

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Understanding Events by Thomas F. Shipley,Jeffrey M. Zacks Pdf

This book is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. It provides a comprehensive collection of the latest research in these diverse fields.

Author : Lawrence Weiskrantz,Martin Davies
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191552748

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Frontiers of Consciousness by Lawrence Weiskrantz,Martin Davies Pdf

In recent years consciousness has become a significant area of study in the cognitive sciences. The 'Frontiers of Consciousness' is a major interdisciplinary exploration of consciousness. The book stems from the Chichele lectures held at All Souls College in Oxford, and features contributions from a 'who's who' of authorities from both philosophy and psychology. The result is a truly interdisciplinary volume, which tackles some of the biggest and most impenetrable problems in consciousness. The book includes chapters considering the apparent explanatory gap between science and consciousness, our conscious experience of emotions such as fear, and of willed actions by ourselves and others. It looks at subjective differences between two ways in which visual information guides behaviour, and scientific investigation of consciousness in non-human animals. It looks at the challenges that the mind-brain relation presents for clinical practice as well as for theories of consciousness. The book draws on leading research from philosophy, experimental psychology, functional imaging of the brain, neuropsychology, neuroscience, and clinical neurology. Distinctive in its accessibility, authority, and its depth of coverage, 'Frontiers of Consciousness' will be a groundbreaking and influential addition to the consciousness literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107421195

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The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Perception Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anol Bhattacherjee
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1475146124

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Social Science Research by Anol Bhattacherjee Pdf

This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199385157

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Seeing Things as They are by John R. Searle Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the objective field is either perceived or can be perceived. Nothing in the subjective field is perceived nor can be perceived precisely because the events in the subjective field consist of the perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in the objective field. Searle begins by criticizing the classical theories of perception and identifies a single fallacy, what he calls the Bad Argument, as the source of nearly all of the confusions in the history of the philosophy of perception. He next justifies the claim that perceptual experiences have presentational intentionality and shows how this justifies the direct realism of his account. In the central theoretical chapters, he shows how it is possible that the raw phenomenology must necessarily determine certain form of intentionality. Searle introduces, in detail, the distinction between different levels of perception from the basic level to the higher levels and shows the internal relation between the features of the experience and the states of affairs presented by the experience. The account applies not just to language possessing human beings but to infants and conscious animals. He also discusses how the account relates to certain traditional puzzles about spectrum inversion, color and size constancy and the brain-in-the-vat thought experiments. In the final chapters he explains and refutes Disjunctivist theories of perception, explains the role of unconscious perception, and concludes by discussing traditional problems of perception such as skepticism.

Author : Cornell University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : CORNELL:31924058982731

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Cornell University Courses of Study by Cornell University Pdf

Author : A. Mark Williams,Keith Davids,John Garrett Pascoe Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 041918290X

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Visual Perception and Action in Sport by A. Mark Williams,Keith Davids,John Garrett Pascoe Williams Pdf

This book provides a detailed review of much of the existing research on visual perception and sports performance. It summarises and integrates the findings of up to five hundred articles from areas as diverse as cognitive and ecological psychology.

Author : Thomas Parr,Giovanni Pezzulo,Karl J. Friston
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262362283

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Active Inference by Thomas Parr,Giovanni Pezzulo,Karl J. Friston Pdf

The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines. Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior—a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking research, active inference provides an integrated perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior that is increasingly used across multiple disciplines including neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Active inference puts the action into perception. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of active inference, covering theory, applications, and cognitive domains. Active inference is a “first principles” approach to understanding behavior and the brain, framed in terms of a single imperative to minimize free energy. The book emphasizes the implications of the free energy principle for understanding how the brain works. It first introduces active inference both conceptually and formally, contextualizing it within current theories of cognition. It then provides specific examples of computational models that use active inference to explain such cognitive phenomena as perception, attention, memory, and planning.

Author : M.H. Bickhard,L. Terveen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780444825209

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Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science by M.H. Bickhard,L. Terveen Pdf

The book focuses on a conceptual flaw in contemporary artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Many people have discovered diverse manifestations and facets of this flaw, but the central conceptual impasse is at best only partially perceived. Its consequences, nevertheless, visit themselves as distortions and failures of multiple research projects - and make impossible the ultimate aspirations of the fields. The impasse concerns a presupposition concerning the nature of representation - that all representation has the nature of encodings: encodingism. Encodings certainly exist, but encodingism is at root logically incoherent; any programmatic research predicted on it is doomed too distortion and ultimate failure. The impasse and its consequences - and steps away from that impasse - are explored in a large number of projects and approaches. These include SOAR, CYC, PDP, situated cognition, subsumption architecture robotics, and the frame problems - a general survey of the current research in AI and Cognitive Science emerges. Interactivism, an alternative model of representation, is proposed and examined.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011999476

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The Publishers' Trade List Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307819253

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The Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault Pdf

Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of "things aid" and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methadological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now. Challenging, at times infuriating, it is an absolutey indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time.

Author : Laura Carlson,Emile van der Zee
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199264322

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Functional Features in Language and Space by Laura Carlson,Emile van der Zee Pdf

Notions of 'function', 'feature' and 'functional feature' are associated with relatively new developments and insights in several areas of cognition. This book brings together definitions, insights and research related to defining these notions from diverse areas, including language and perception.

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry