The World in Your Head A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience

The World In Your Head: A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience represents a bold assault on one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science: the nature of consciousness and the human mind. Rather than examining the brain and nervous system to see what they tell us about the mind,...

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Main Author: Lehar, Steven
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Mahwah, N.J Psychology Press 2003
Taylor and Francis
L. Erlbaum Associates
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition:1
Subjects:
Cognitive Science
Consciousness
Gestalt psychology
Harmonic resonance
Perception
Amodal Percept
Receptive Field
Turn Turn
Turn Turn Turn
percept
Standing Wave Pattern
Perceptual Manifold
representation
Functional Isomorphism
DNA Code
Indirect Realism
Standing Waves
amodal
Harmonic Resonance
perceptual
Spherical Resonator
visual
Inverse Optics Problem
model
Phenomenal Space
Formal Language Systems
harmonic
Explicit Spatial Model
Extrinsic Constraints
edges
Basilar Membrane
Apperceptive Agnosic
Higher Harmonics
resonance
Direct Realist View
Amodal Completion
Motor Code
Perceptual Sphere
Motor Field
conscious
ISBN:9780415652797, 0805841768, 0415652790, 9780805841763
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Two Worlds of Reality -- 2 The Dimensions of Conscious Experience -- 3 The Enigma of Gestalt Phenomena -- 4 The Computational Mechanism of Perception -- 5 The Perception of Illumination -- 6 Recognition versus Completion -- 7 Relation to Neurophysiology -- 8 Harmonic Resonance Theory -- 9 Image Theory of Language and Cognition -- 10 Motor Control and Field Theory -- 11 A Psycho-Aesthetic Hypothesis -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index