Visual Attention and Consciousness

ISBN-13: 9781848726192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 166 str.

Jay Friedenberg

Opis

This text begins with a philosophical approach to consciousness, examining some key questions such as what is meant by the term 'conscious, ' and how this applies to vision. The book then explores the major visual phenomena related to attention and conscious experience - including filling-in processes, aftereffects, multi-stability, forms of divided attention, models of visual attention, priming effects, types of attentional blindness, as well as various visual disorders

Spis treści

1. Introduction. 2. Neural Underpinnings. 3. Under Construction. 4: I’m Getting Tired of This. 5. Same But Different. 6. One or Many? 7. Varieties of Visual Attention. 8. Your Attention Please. 9. Now You See it, Now You Don’t. 10. Looking without Seeing. 11. The Damaged Brain: Agnosias. 12. The Damaged Brain: Other Disorders. 13. Conclusion.

O autorze

Jay Friedenberg is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Manhattan College. He has previously written textbooks on artificial intelligence, dynamical systems and cognitive science, and he has published articles on center estimation, symmetry perception and the perceived aesthetics of geometric forms.