Sensory Perception: Mind and Matter

✍ Scribed by Stephan Frings (auth.), Friedrich G. Barth, Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch, Hans-Dieter Klein (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 396
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sensory perception: mind and matter aims at a deeper understanding of the many facets of sensory perception and their relations to brain function and cognition. It is an attempt to promote the interdisciplinary discourse between the neurosciences and psychology, which speaks the language of cognitive experiences, and philosophy, which has been thinking about the meaning and origin of consciousness since its beginning. Leading experts contribute to such a discourse by informing the reader about exciting modern developments, both technical and conceptual, and by pointing to the big gaps still to be bridged. The various chapters provide access to scientific research on sensory perception and the mind from a broad perspective, covering a large spectrum of topics which range from the molecular mechanisms at work in sensory cells to the study of the unconscious and to neurophilosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-4
Sensory cells and sensory organs....Pages 5-21
Vertebrate hearing: Origin, evolution and functions....Pages 23-40
Principles of function in the visual system....Pages 41-56
What binds it all together? Synchronized oscillatory activity in normal and pathological cognition....Pages 57-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-74
Between biology and philosophy: Our knowledge of the real world....Pages 75-88
Sensory perception: Adaptation to lifestyle and habitat....Pages 89-107
Visual learning in social insects: From simple associations to higher-order problem solving....Pages 109-133
Evolution of cognition: A comparative approach....Pages 135-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-160
Understanding color vision, with comments on mind and matter....Pages 161-174
Pictures as strange objects of perception....Pages 175-181
Towards an understanding of the psychostimulant action of amphetamine and cocaine....Pages 183-203
A biological basis for musical tonality....Pages 205-214
Synaesthesia and synergy in art. Gustav Mahler’s “Symphony No. 2 in C minor” as an example of interactive music visualization....Pages 215-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-243
Perception, conscious and unconscious processes....Pages 245-264
Consciousness, states of consciousness, unconscious psychological processes, and psychological states....Pages 265-273
Explicit and implicit memory....Pages 275-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-297
Colour ordered and disordered....Pages 299-311
The sense of smell in historical perspective....Pages 313-332
Front Matter....Pages 333-338
Neurophilosophy....Pages 339-356
Sensory perception, body and mind in Indian Buddhist philosophy....Pages 357-368
Front Matter....Pages 333-338
The ‘eye of the mind’ and the ‘eye of the body’: Descartes and Leibniz on truth, mathematics, and visuality....Pages 369-382
Free will....Pages 383-390
Back Matter....Pages 391-404

✦ Subjects

Neurosciences; Philosophy of Mind; Psychoanalysis; Psychiatry; Neurobiology; Psychology, general