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Tutorials in visual cognition / edited by Veronika Coltheart.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Macquarie monographs in cognitive science.
- Macquarie monographs in cognitive science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual perception--Congresses.
- Visual perception.
- Cognition--Congresses.
- Cognition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (407 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Psychology Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Based on presentations at a meeting held at the Macquarie Center for Cognitive Science in Sydney, Australia.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-94034-0
- 1-283-10580-2
- 9786613105806
- 1-136-94035-9
- 0-203-84730-X
- 9780203847305
- OCLC:
- 720411347
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