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Perceptual Coherence book of Hearing and Seeing by Stephen Handel 2006 Hardcover
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Book Title
- Perceptual Coherence
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Subject
- Science & Tech
- Educational Level
- College
- ISBN
- 9780195169645
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195169646
ISBN-13
9780195169645
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46873599
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
492 Pages
Publication Name
Perceptual Coherence : Hearing and Seeing
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Subject
Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
28.5 Oz
Item Length
6.3 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2005-013750
Reviews
"Stephen Handel's book Perceptual Cohenerence reframes object and event perception in a coherent theoretical scheme based on the dynamic perceiving of "things" in space and time. The text is written with Handel's habitual crystal clarity, depth of thought, and pedagogical talent. It willcertainly be a treasure trove of facts, concepts, and new directions for researchers and students alike." --Stephen McAdams, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology (CIRMMT) and Faculty of Music, McGill University, "Far from being a dry recitation of the facts of seeing and hearing, Handel's book is a unique attempt to dig out the similarities and interactions between these two modes of perception. Full of interesting analogies, the book is very provocative and contains enough challenging ideas forindividual readers to be able to find specific ones to puzzle over, whether they are students or professional researchers--and regardless of their theoretical views of perception." --Albert S. Bregman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, McGill University, "Stephen Handel's book Perceptual Coherence reframes object and event perception in a coherent theoretical scheme based on the dynamic perceiving of "things" in space and time. The text is written with Handel's habitual crystal clarity, depth of thought, and pedagogical talent. It will certainly be a treasure trove of facts, concepts, and new directions for researchers and students alike." --Stephen McAdams, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media & Technology (CIRMMT) and Faculty of Music, McGill University"Far from being a dry recitation of the facts of seeing and hearing, Handel's book is a unique attempt to dig out the similarities and interactions between these two modes of perception. Full of interesting analogies, the book is very provocative and contains enough challenging ideas for individual readers to be able to find specific ones to puzzle over, whether they are students or professional researchers--and regardless of their theoretical views of perception." --Albert S. Bregman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, McGill University, "Stephen Handel's bookPerceptual Coherencereframes object and event perception in a coherent theoretical scheme based on the dynamic perceiving of "things" in space and time. The text is written with Handel's habitual crystal clarity, depth of thought, and pedagogical talent. It will certainly be a treasure trove of facts, concepts, and new directions for researchers and students alike." --Stephen McAdams, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media & Technology (CIRMMT) and Faculty of Music, McGill University "Far from being a dry recitation of the facts of seeing and hearing, Handel's book is a unique attempt to dig out the similarities and interactions between these two modes of perception. Full of interesting analogies, the book is very provocative and contains enough challenging ideas for individual readers to be able to find specific ones to puzzle over, whether they are students or professional researchers--and regardless of their theoretical views of perception." --Albert S. Bregman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, McGill University, "Stephen Handel's book Perceptual Coherence reframes object and event perception in a coherent theoretical scheme based on the dynamic perceiving of "things" in space and time. The text is written with Handel's habitual crystal clarity, depth of thought, and pedagogical talent. It will certainly be a treasure trove of facts, concepts, and new directions for researchers and students alike." --Stephen McAdams, Director, Centre for InterdisciplinaryResearch in Music, Media & Technology (CIRMMT) and Faculty of Music, McGill University"Far from being a dry recitation of the facts of seeing and hearing, Handel's book is a unique attempt to dig out the similarities and interactions between these two modes of perception. Full of interesting analogies, the book is very provocative and contains enough challenging ideas for individual readers to be able to find specific ones to puzzle over, whether they are students or professional researchers--and regardless of their theoretical views ofperception." --Albert S. Bregman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, McGill University"Stephen Handel's book Perceptual Cohenerence reframes object and event perception in a coherent theoretical scheme based on the dynamic perceiving of "things" in space and time. The text is written with Handel's habitual crystal clarity, depth of thought, and pedagogical talent. It will certainly be a treasure trove of facts, concepts, and new directions for researchers and students alike." --Stephen McAdams, Director, Centre for InterdisciplinaryResearch in Music, Media & Technology (CIRMMT) and Faculty of Music, McGill University"Far from being a dry recitation of the facts of seeing and hearing, Handel's book is a unique attempt to dig out the similarities and interactions between these two modes of perception. Full of interesting analogies, the book is very provocative and contains enough challenging ideas for individual readers to be able to find specific ones to puzzle over, whether they are students or professional researchers--and regardless of their theoretical views ofperception." --Albert S. Bregman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, McGill University, "Stephen Handel's book Perceptual Coherence reframes object and event perception in a coherent theoretical scheme based on the dynamic perceiving of "things" in space and time. The text is written with Handel's habitual crystal clarity, depth of thought, and pedagogical talent. It will certainly be a treasure trove of facts, concepts, and new directions for researchers and students alike." --Stephen McAdams, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media & Technology (CIRMMT) and Faculty of Music, McGill University "Far from being a dry recitation of the facts of seeing and hearing, Handel's book is a unique attempt to dig out the similarities and interactions between these two modes of perception. Full of interesting analogies, the book is very provocative and contains enough challenging ideas for individual readers to be able to find specific ones to puzzle over, whether they are students or professional researchers--and regardless of their theoretical views of perception." --Albert S. Bregman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, McGill University
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
152.1
Table Of Content
1. Basic Concepts2. Transformation of Sensory Information into Perceptual Information3. Characteristics of Auditory and Visual Scenes4. The Transition between Noise (Disorder) and Structure (Order)5. Perception of Motion6. Gain Control and External and Internal Noise7. The Perception of Quality: Visual Color8. Auditory Timbre9. Auditory and Visual Segmentation10. Summing Up
Synopsis
The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and correlated change across space and time, so that perceiving occurs at several spatial and temporal scales in parallel. Given that the perceptual goals and perceptual variables are equivalent, the rules of perceiving will be the same for all senses. The goal of this book is to describe these conceptual similarities and differences between hearing and seeing. Although it is mathematical and conceptually analytical, the book does not make explicit use of advanced mathematical concepts. Each chapter combines information on hearing and seeing, and gives a detailed treatment of a small number of topics. The first three chapters present introductory information, including properties of auditory and visual worlds, how receptive fields are organized to pick out those properties, and whether the receptive fields are optimized to pick up the structure of the sensory world. Each subsequent chapter considers one type of perceptual element: texture, motion, contrast and noise, color, timbre, and object segmentation. Each type of perceptual situation is described as a problem of discovering the correlated energy, and the research presented focuses on how humans manage to perceive given the complicated set of skills required. This book is intended for use in upper-division undergraduate coursesin perception and sensation, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. It will fill the slot between textbooks that cover perception and sensory physiology and neuroscience, and more advanced monographs that cover one sense or topic in detail., This volume's comparison of hearing and seeing, or "listening to" and "looking at", provides the means to isolate what is common to perception and what is specific to each sensory system., The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and correlated change across space and time, so that perceiving occurs at several spatial and temporal scales in parallel. Given that the perceptual goals and perceptual variables are equivalent, the rules of perceiving will be the same for all senses. The goal of this book is to describe these conceptual similarities and differences between hearing and seeing. Although it is mathematical and conceptually analytical, the book does not make explicit use of advanced mathematical concepts. Each chapter combines information on hearing and seeing, and gives a detailed treatment of a small number of topics. The first three chapters present introductory information, including properties of auditory and visual worlds, how receptive fields are organized to pick out those properties, and whether the receptive fields are optimized to pick up the structure of the sensory world. Each subsequent chapter considers one type of perceptual element: texture, motion, contrast and noise, color, timbre, and object segmentation. Each type of perceptual situation is described as a problem of discovering the correlated energy, and the research presented focuses on how humans manage to perceive given the complicated set of skills required. This book is intended for use in upper-division undergraduate courses in perception and sensation, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. It will fill the slot between textbooks that cover perception and sensory physiology and neuroscience, and more advanced monographs that cover one sense or topic in detail., There are auditory books and visual books, but neither type of book uses the other sense to illustrate the common issues in perception. This volume's comparison of hearing and seeing, or "listening to" and "looking at" provides the means to isolate what is common to perception and what is specific to each sensory system. There are only 3 or 4 types of visual receptors, each with overlapping but different wavelength sensitivity, but there are about 2,000 auditory receptors, again with overlapping wavelength sensitivity. Through comparisons such as this one, Handel illustrates how the number and sensitivity of the receptors match the properties of the stimuli."Far from being a dry recitation of the facts of seeing and hearing, Handel's book is a unique attempt to dig out the similarities and interactions between these two modes of perception. While providing a detailed account of many aspects of our perceptual systems, at both a functional and a physiological level, the author always bears in mind what the incoming sensory information is about (a single world containing objects, events, and various sources of light and of acoustic energy). He explains how this fact of a single world shaped the heuristic methods used by these systems - some described by the Gestalt psychologists - to build a coherent perceived world. The focus is always on this coherence and how it emerges from specialised processes at many levels. Full of interesting analogies, the book is very provocative and contains enough challenging ideas for individual readers to be able to find specific ones to puzzle over, whether they be students or professional researchers, and regardless of their theoretical views of perception." - Albert Bregman, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, McGill University"Stephen Handel's book "Perceptual Coherence: Seeing and Hearing" reframes object and event perception in a coherent theoretical scheme based on the dynamic perceiving of "things" in space and time. The subject of "thing-based" perceptual coherence is timely and of crucial importance with the increasing interest in multisensory integration in the realms of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. The text is written with Handel's habitual crystal clarity, depth of thought and pedagogical talent. It will certainly be a treasure trove of facts, concepts and new directions for researchers and students alike. - Stephen McAdams, PhD, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media & Technology.
LC Classification Number
QP447.H36 2005
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