{"product_id":"perception-beyond-inference-isbn-9780262549172","title":"Perception beyond Inference","description":"\u003cb\u003eProposing a new paradigm for perceptual science that goes beyond standard information theory and digital computation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.Preface vii \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1 \u003cbr\u003eLiliana Albertazzi, Gert J. van Tonder, and Dhanraj Vishwanath \u003cbr\u003e1 Vision and Information 27 \u003cbr\u003eJan J. Koenderink I Time and Dynamics 59 \u003cbr\u003e2 Riddle of the Past, Puzzle for the Future 61 \u003cbr\u003eIlona Kovács \u003cbr\u003e3 Extending Prägnanz: Dynamic Aspects of Mental Representation and Gestalt Principles 75 \u003cbr\u003eTimothy L. Hubbard \u003cbr\u003e4 Informing through an Imperfect Retina 109 \u003cbr\u003eGert J. van Tonder \u003cbr\u003e5 Perceptual Organization in the Visual Cortex 137 \u003cbr\u003eShinsuke Shimojo \u003cbr\u003eII Color, Shape, and Space 157 \u003cbr\u003e6 The Perception of Material Qualities and the Internal Semantics of the Perceptual System 159\u003cbr\u003eRainer Mausfeld \u003cbr\u003e7 Visual Information in Surface and Depth Perception: Reconciling Pictures and Reality 201 \u003cbr\u003eDhanraj Vishwanath \u003cbr\u003e8 Good Continuation in Layers: Shading Flows, Color Flows, Surfaces, and Shadows 241 \u003cbr\u003eOhad Ben-Shahar and Steven W. Zucker \u003cbr\u003e9 Illusory Contours and Neon Color Spreading Reconsidered in the Light of Petter’s Rule 261 \u003cbr\u003eBaingio Pinna \u003cbr\u003eIII Language and Perception 285 \u003cbr\u003e10 From Grouping to Visual Meanings: A New Theory of Perceptual Organization 287 \u003cbr\u003eBaingio Pinna and Liliana Albertazzi \u003cbr\u003e11 The Perceptual Roots of Metaphor 345 Liliana Albertazzi\u003cbr\u003e IV Perception in Art, Design, and Computation 391 \u003cbr\u003e12 Becoming Information: Paul Cézanne and Prägnanz 393 \u003cbr\u003eAmy Ione \u003cbr\u003e13 Becoming: Generative Art and the Production of Information 411 \u003cbr\u003eErnest Edmonds\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 421 \u003cbr\u003eAuthor Index 423 \u003cbr\u003eSubject Index 435Liliana Albertazzi is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Cognitive Science at Trento University, Italy.\u003cbr\u003eGert J. van Tonder is Professor of Vision Research and Adjunct Professor at the Laboratory of Visual Psychology, Department of Architecture and Design, at Kyoto Institute of Technology.\u003cbr\u003eDhanraj Vishwanath is RCUK (Research Councils UK) Academic Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305242185957,"sku":"NP9780262549172","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262549172.jpg?v=1767734639","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/perception-beyond-inference-isbn-9780262549172","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}