Lectures on perception an ecological perspective / Michael T. Turvey.

Author/creator Turvey, Michael T.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2019.
Descriptionxiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Foundational concepts. What kind of systems do we study? -- Organism-environment dualism -- Direct perceiving, indirect perceiving -- Simulative, projective and locality assumptions -- The mechanistic hypothesis -- The Cartesian program -- Empiricism and the man in the inner room -- The space enigmas I: Berkeley -- The space enigmas II: Kant, the nature of geometry, and the geometry of nature -- The space enigmas III: Local signs and geometrical empiricism -- Doctrines of sensations and unconscious inferences -- The space enigmas IV: On learning space perception -- Gestaltism I: Atomism, anatomism and mechanistic order -- Gestalt theory II: Fields, self-organization, and the invariance postulate of evolution -- Gestalt theory III: Experience error, CNS error, psycho-neural isomorphism, behavioral environment -- Part 2: Computational-representational perspective. The computational-representational perspective: Preliminaries. Pattern recongition and represenation bearers -- Turing reductionism, token physicalism: The computational system assumption -- Reflections on the physical symbol system hypothesis -- Part 3: Ecological perspective. Ecology: The science that reasons why -- Barriers to ecological realism -- Ontology at the ecological scale -- Ecological optics primer -- Perceiving "how to get about among things" -- The mechanical basis for "getting about among things" -- Strong anticipation and direct perception -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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