{"product_id":"percept-decision-action-isbn-9780470012338","title":"Percept, Decision, Action","description":"Seemingly simple behaviours turn out, on reflection, to be discouragingly complex. For many years, cognitive operations such as sensation, perception, comparing percepts to stored models (short-term and long-term memory), decision-making and planning of actions were treated by most neuroscientists as separate areas of research. This was not because the neuroscience community believed these operations to act independently—it is intuitive that any common cognitive process seamlessly interweaves these operations—but because too little was known about the individual processes constituting the full behaviour, and experimental paradigms and data collection methods were not sufficiently well developed to put the processes in sequence in any controlled manner. These limitations are now being overcome in the leading cognitive neuroscience laboratories, and this book is a timely summary of the current state of the art.  \u003cp\u003eThe theme of the book is how the brain uses sensory information to develop and decide upon the appropriate action, and how the brain determines the appropriate action to optimize the collection of new sensory information. It addresses several key questions. How are percepts built up in the cortex and how are judgments of the percept made? In what way does information flow within and between cortical regions, and what is accomplished by successive (and reverberating) stages of processing? How are decisions made about the percept subsequently acted upon, through their conversion to a response according to the learned criterion for action? How does the predicted or expected sensation interact with the actual incoming flow of sensory signals?  The chapters and discussions in the book reveal how answering these questions requires an understanding of sensory–motor loops: our perception of the world drives new actions, and the actions undertaken at any moment lead to a new ‘view’ of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is a fascinating read for all clinical and experimental psychologists  and neuroscientists, as well as anyone interested in how we perceive the world and act within it.\u003c\/p\u003e  Chair’s introduction (Ranulfo Romo).  \u003cp\u003eActive construction of percepts about object location (Dori Derdikman, Marcin Szwed, Knarik Bagdasarian, Per Magne Knutsen, Maciej Pietr, Chunxiu Yu, Amos Arieli and Ehud Ahissar).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeuronal encoding of natural stimuli: the rat tactile system Mathew E. Diamond, Erik Zorzin and Ehsan Arabzadeh).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCortical commands in active touch (Michael Brecht).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeneral discussion I\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSwitching of sensorimotor transformations: antisaccades and parietal cortex (Shabtai Barash and Mingsha Zhang).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaccade initiation and the reliability of motor signals involved in the generation of saccadic eye movements (David L. Sparks and Xintian Hu).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMultiple roles of experience in decoding the neural representation of sensory stimuli (Joshua I. Gold).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeneral discussion II\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComputational approaches to visual decision making (Jochen Ditterich).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe inferior parietal lobule: where action becomes perception (Giacomo Rizzolatti, Pier Francesco Ferrari, Stefano Rozzi and Leonardo Fogassi).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe evolution of the neocortex in mammals: intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to the cortical phenotype (Sarah J. Karlen and Leah Krubitzer).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeneral discussion III\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDecoding the temporal evolution of a simple perceptual act (Ranulfo Romo, Adrián Hernández, Antonio Zainos, Luis Lemus, Victor de Lafuente, Rogelio Luna and Verónica Nacher).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProbabilistic mechanisms in sensorimotor control (Konrad P. Körding and Daniel M. Wolpert).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuman brain activation during viewing of dynamic natural scenes (Uri Hasson and Rafael Malach).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresentation of object images by combinations of visual features in the macaque inferior temporal cortex (Manabu Tanifuji, Kazushige Tsunoda and Yukako Yamane).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeneral discussion IV\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychophysical investigations into cortical encoding of vibrotactile stimuli (Justin A. Harris).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy is language unique to humans (\u003cb\u003eJacques Mehler, Marina Nespor, Mohinish Shukla\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eMarcela Peña)\u003c\/b\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinal general discussion\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index.\u003c\/p\u003e  The Novartis Foundation is an international scientific and educational charity which promotes the study and general knowledge of science and in particular encourages international co-operation in scientific research.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChair:\u003c\/b\u003e RANULFO ROMO, Instituto de Fisiologia Celular, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  Seemingly simple behaviours turn out, on reflection, to be discouragingly complex. For many years, cognitive operations such as sensation, perception, comparing percepts to stored models (short-term and long-term memory), decision-making and planning of actions were treated by most neuroscientists as separate areas of research. This was not because the neuroscience community believed these operations to act independently—it is intuitive that any common cognitive process seamlessly interweaves these operations—but because too little was known about the individual processes constituting the full behaviour, and experimental paradigms and data collection methods were not sufficiently well developed to put the processes in sequence in any controlled manner. These limitations are now being overcome in the leading cognitive neuroscience laboratories, and this book is a timely summary of the current state of the art.  \u003cp\u003eThe theme of the book is how the brain uses sensory information to develop and decide upon the appropriate action, and how the brain determines the appropriate action to optimize the collection of new sensory information. It addresses several key questions. How are percepts built up in the cortex and how are judgments of the percept made? In what way does information flow within and between cortical regions, and what is accomplished by successive (and reverberating) stages of processing? How are decisions made about the percept subsequently acted upon, through their conversion to a response according to the learned criterion for action? How does the predicted or expected sensation interact with the actual incoming flow of sensory signals?  The chapters and discussions in the book reveal how answering these questions requires an understanding of sensory–motor loops: our perception of the world drives new actions, and the actions undertaken at any moment lead to a new ‘view’ of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will prove a fascinating read for all clinical and experimental psychologists  and neuroscientists, as well as anyone interested in how we perceive the world and act within it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989763506405,"sku":"NP9780470012338","price":211.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470012338.jpg?v=1761785386","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/percept-decision-action-isbn-9780470012338","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}