Perception beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes

✍ Scribed by Liliana Albertazzi, Liliana Albertazzi, Gert J. van van Tonder, Gert J. van van Tonder, Dhanraj Vishwanath, Dhanraj Vishwanath (editors)

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 462
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A truly novel contribution to the problem of perception and vision...This excellent and demanding book opens up the door to a deeply informed attitude in cognitive science...By putting together such a rich collection of chapters, the editors have contributed to the renaissance of the autonomy and dignity of cognitive science. -- Minds & Machines

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 Vision and Information......Page 40
I Time and Dynamics......Page 72
2 Riddle of the Past, Puzzle for the Future......Page 74
3 Extending Prägnanz......Page 88
4 Informing through an Imperfect Retina......Page 122
5 Perceptual Organization in the Visual Cortex......Page 150
II Color, Shape, and Space......Page 170
6 The Perception of Material Qualities and the Internal Semantics of the Perceptual System......Page 172
7 Visual Information in Surface and Depth Perception......Page 214
8 Good Continuation in Layers......Page 254
9 Illusory Contours and Neon Color Spreading Reconsidered in the Light of Petter’s Rule......Page 274
III Language and Perception......Page 298
10 From Grouping to Visual Meanings......Page 300
11 The Perceptual Roots of Metaphor......Page 358
IV Perception in Art, Design, and Computation......Page 404
12 Becoming Information......Page 406
13 Becoming......Page 424
Contributors......Page 434
Author Index......Page 436
Subject Index......Page 448
Insert......Page 459