Perception and the Physical World: Psychological and Philosophical Issues in Perception
How can we conceive of the relation between the available sensory input and our perceptual achievement? Does our perceptual system exploit the sensory input in terms of innately determined knowledge of properties of the physical world? How can we use Bayesian principles to provide key insights into the scope and limits of perception?
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The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley detailing his experiences when taking mescaline. According to Dr. Zaehner concludes that Huxley’s apprehensions under mescaline are affected by his deep familiarity with Vedanta and Mahayana Buddhism. So, the experience may not be the same for others who take the drug and don’t have this background, although they will undoubtedly experience a transformation of sensation.
This book promises hours of fun and loads of benefits for all the family!
Each seek-and-find activity can be done individually as a pastime, or played as a game with a partner or a ‘rival’ group.
But more than that, solving the puzzles develops figure-ground perception and improves the ability to establish object constancy and size relationships.
These original empirical research essays in the psychology of perception, cognition, and language were written in honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman, two of the most prominent psychologists of our time. The essays range across fields foundational to cognitive science, including perception, attention, memory, and language, using formal, experimental, and neuroscientific approaches to issues of representation and learning.
The Handbook includes a rich and comprehensive set of papers providing a state-of-the-art view of current research on speech perception. The authors have done a remarkable job in pulling together a broad and important range of topics contributed by many of the leading researchers in the field. The chapters are well-written, interesting, and provocative. Taken together this handbook provides an exciting, stimulating, and informative set of readings that is a must-read for anyone interested in learning about this important field of research
