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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815858303321

Titolo

Tutorials in visual cognition / / edited by Veronika Coltheart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-94034-0

1-283-10580-2

9786613105806

1-136-94035-9

0-203-84730-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Collana

Macquarie monographs in cognitive science

Classificazione

CP 2500

CP 4000

PSY 205f

PSY 210f

Altri autori (Persone)

ColtheartVeronika

Disciplina

152.14

Soggetti

Visual perception

Cognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on presentations at a meeting held at the Macquarie Center for Cognitive Science in Sydney, Australia.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Iterative Reentrant Processing: A Conceptual Framework for Perception and Cognition (The Binding Problem? No Worries, Mate); 3 Dissecting Spatial Visual Attention; 4 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Control of Visual Selection: Controversies and Debate; 5 Getting Into Guided Search; 6 Eyeblinks and Cognition; 7 Visual Spatial Attention and Visual Short-Term Memory: Electromagnetic Explorations of Mind; 8 A Review of Repetition Blindness Phenomena and Theories; 9 Spatial Attention and the Detection of Weak Visual Signals

10 Face and Object Recognition: How Do They Differ?11 Is Face Processing Automatic?; 12 Visuospatial Representation of Number Magnitude; 13 Visual Memories; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic



memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many remarkable new aspects of the processing of brief visual stimuli have been discovered -- change blindness, repetition blindness, the attentional blink, newly-discovered properties of visual short-term memory and of the face recognition system, the influence of reentrant processing on visual perception, and the surprisingly intimate relationships bet