The World in Your Head

Zusatztext "This powerful and inspiring book will fascinate those committed to psychological theory....Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals."CHOICE Informationen zum Autor Steven M. Lehar Klappentext This book focuses on the question whether the world we see around us is the real world itself,or whether it is merely a copy of the world presented to consciousness by our brain in response to input from our senses. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the question whether the world we see around us is the real world itself,or whether it is merely a copy of the world presented to consciousness by our brain in response to input from our senses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface. The Two Worlds of Reality. The Dimensions of Conscious Experience. The Enigma of Gestalt Phenomena. The Computational Mechanism of Perception. The Perception of Illumination. Recognition vs. Completion, Abstraction vs. Reification. Relation to Neurophysiology. Harmonic Resonance Theory. Image Theory of Language and Cognition. Motor Control and Field Theory. A Psycho-Aesthetic Hypothesis. Appendices: The Coplanarity Field. The Occlusion Field. The Orthogonality Field. Edge Consistency and Inconsistency Constraints. Influence of the Visual Input.

Autorentext

Steven M. Lehar

Klappentext

This book focuses on the question whether the world we see around us is the real world itself,or whether it is merely a copy of the world presented to consciousness by our brain in response to input from our senses.

Inhalt

Contents: Preface. The Two Worlds of Reality. The Dimensions of Conscious Experience. The Enigma of Gestalt Phenomena. The Computational Mechanism of Perception. The Perception of Illumination. Recognition vs. Completion, Abstraction vs. Reification. Relation to Neurophysiology. Harmonic Resonance Theory. Image Theory of Language and Cognition. Motor Control and Field Theory. A Psycho-Aesthetic Hypothesis. Appendices: The Coplanarity Field. The Occlusion Field. The Orthogonality Field. Edge Consistency and Inconsistency Constraints. Influence of the Visual Input.