Perception, action, and consciousness : sensorimotor dynamics and two visual systems / edited by Nivedita Gangopadhyay, Michael Madary, Finn Spicer.

Other author Gangopadhyay, Nivedita.
Other author Madary, Michael.
Other author Spicer, Finn.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Descriptionxii, 303 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Perception.
Consciousness.
Cognitive neuroscience.

Contents Perception, action and consciousness / N. Gangopadhyay, M. Madary, F. Spicer -- Computational consciousness / Dana H. Ballard -- Explaining what people say about sensory qualia / J. Kevin O'Regan -- Perception, action, and experience: unraveling the golden braid / Andy Clark -- Cortical visual systems for perception and action / A. David Milner and Melvyn A. Goodale -- Hermann Lotze's Theory of 'Local Sign': evidence from pointing responses in an illusory figure / Dean R. Melmoth, Marc S. Tibber, and Michael J. Morgan -- Two visual systems and the feeling of presence / Mohan Matthen -- Spatial coordinates and phenomenology in the two-visual systems model / Pierre Jacob and Frederique. de Vignemont -- Perceptual experience and the capacity to act / Susanna Schellenberg -- Why does the perception-action functional dichotomy not match the ventral-dorsal streams in anatomical segregation: optic ataxia and the function of the dorsal stream / Yves Rossetti [and others] -- Mapping the neglect syndrome onto neurofunctional streams / Giuseppe Vallar and Flavia Mancini -- Motor representations and the perception of space: perceptual judgments of the boundary of action space / Yvonne Delevoye-Turrell, Angela Bartolo, and Yonn Coello -- Vision without representation, Alva Noe -- Sensorimotor knowledge and the contents of experience / Julian Kiverstein -- Extended vision / Robert A. Wilson.
Abstract "What is the relationship between perception and action, between an organism and its environment, in explaining consciousness? These are issues at the heart of philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences. This book explores the relationship between perception and action from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, ranging from theoretical discussion of concepts to findings from recent scientific studies. It incorporates contributions from leading philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and an artificial intelligence theorist. The contributions take a range of positions with respect to the view that perception is an achievement by an agent acting in a complex environment in which sensorimotor dynamics constitute an essential ingredient to perceptual experience. A key focus of the book is on the debate about action-oriented theories of visual perception versus the dual-visual systems hypothesis The former champions the role of sensorimotor dynamics in perceptual awareness while the latter favours a functional dichotomy between perception and action. At least on the surface, these two approaches are in conflict. Where one emphasizes the interdependence of action and perception, the other suggests that action and perception are functionally distinct. The dialogue between these two approaches brings out wider theoretical issues underlying the research paradigm of cognitive sciences and philosophy of mind. Exploring one of the major debates in the philosophy and psychology, this book is fascinating reading for all those in the cognitive sciences and philosophy of mind"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010030960
ISBN9780199551118 (hardback)
ISBN0199551111 (hardback)

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Joyner General Stacks BD181 .P47 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold