UID:
almahu_9948025461502882
Format:
1 online resource (383 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-07261-3
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9786611072612
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0-08-054221-2
Series Statement:
Advances in psychology ; 126
Content:
This book takes as a starting point, John Dewey's article, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, in which Dewey was calling for, in short, the utilisation of systems theories within psychology, theories of behaviour that capture its nature as a vastly-complex dynamic coordination of nested coordinations. This line of research was neglected as American psychology migrated towards behaviourism, where perception came to be thought of as being both a neural response to an external stimulus and a mediating neural stimulus leading to, or causing a muscular response. As such, perception become
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Systems Theories and A Priori Aspects of Perception; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Part 1: Historical Perspective; Chapter 1. Control Systems with A Priori Intentions Register Environmental Disturbances A Posteriori; Chapter 2. William James, Chaos Theory, and Conscious Experience; Chapter 3. Systems Theories: Their Origins, Foundations, and Development; Part 2: Systems-theoretical Models of Perception; Chapter 4. Neural Networks and Perception; Chapter 5. Broad Mindedness and Perceptual Flexibility: Lessons from Dynamic Ecosystems
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Chapter 6. Sensory Capture and the Projection of Conscious PerceptionPart 3: Systems-Theoretical Models of Perception and Action; Chapter 7. Perceiving One's Own Action--and What it Leads to; Chapter 8. Intentionality, Perception, and Autocatalytic Closure: A Potential Means of Repaying Psychology's Conceptual Debt; Chapter 9. What do Event-related Brain Potentials Tell Us about the Organization of Action; Part 4: Chaos-theoretical Models o f Perception
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Chapter 10. How A Priori Image-Schematic, Simulative Neuro-Algorithms Provide Us with Mental Universals which Parallel Physical World PrinciplesChapter 11. Visual Perception at the Edge of Chaos; Chapter 12. Phase Transistions in Cognition; Chapter 13. Stability and Instability in the Dynamics of Perceptual Learning; Author and Subject Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-82604-1
Language:
English
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