Perception beyond inference : the information content of visual processes /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 445 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Visual perception. Cognitive neuroscience. Cognition. Visual Perception Cognition Cognition. Cognitive neuroscience. Visual perception.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256592

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Other authors / contributors:	Albertazzi, Liliana. Van Tonder, Gert J., 1970- Vishwanath, Dhanraj, 1967-
ISBN:	9780262295550 0262295555 9780262015028 0262015021
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	Proposing a new paradigm for perceptual science that goes beyond standard information theory and digital computation. This book breaks with the conventional model of perception that views vision as a mere inference to an objective reality on the basis of "inverse optics." The authors offer the alternative view that perception is an expressive and awareness-generating process. Perception creates semantic information in such a way as to enable the observer to deal efficaciously with the chaotic and meaningless structure present at the physical boundary between the body and its surroundings. Vision is intentional by its very nature; visual qualities are essential and real, providing an aesthetic and meaningful interface to the structures of physics and the state of the brain. This view brings perception firmly in line with ethology and modern evolutionary biology and suggests new approaches in all disciplines that study, or require an understanding of, the ontology of mind. The book is the joint effort of a multidisciplinary group of authors. Topics covered include the relationships among stimuli, neuronal processes, and visual awareness. After considering the mind-dependent growing of information, the book treats time and dynamics; color, shape, and space; language and perception; perception, art, and design
Other form:	Print version: Perception beyond inference. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010 9780262015028

Table of Contents:

Vision and information / Jan J. Koenderink
Riddle of the past, puzzle for the future / Ilona Kovács
Extending Prägnanz: dynamic aspects of mental representation and Gestalt principles / Timothy L. Hubbard
Informing through an imperfect retina / Gert J. van Tonder
Perceptual organization in the visual cortex / Shinsuke Shimojo
The perception of material qualities and the internal semantics of the perceptual system / Rainer Mausfeld
Visual information in surface and depth perception: reconciling pictures and reality / Dhanraj Vishwanath
Good continuation in layers: shading flows, color flows, surfaces, and shadows / Ohad Ben-Shahar, Steven W. Zucker
Illusory contours and neon color spreading reconsidered in the light of Petter's rule / Baingio Pinna
From grouping to visual meanings: a new theory of perceptual organization / Baingio Pinna, Liliana Albertazzi
The perceptual roots of metaphor / Liliana Albertazzi
Becoming information: Paul Cézanne and Prägnanz / Amy Ione
Becoming: generative art and the production of information / Ernest Edmonds.

Perception beyond inference : the information content of visual processes /

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