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Perception of Faces, Objects, and Scenes - Analytic and Holistic Processes (Paperback)
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Perception of Faces, Objects, and Scenes - Analytic and Holistic Processes (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Series in Visual Cognition
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From a barrage of photons, we readily and effortlessly recognize
the faces of our friends, and the familiar objects and scenes
around us. However, these tasks cannot be simple for our visual
systems--faces are all extremely similar as visual patterns, and
objects look quite different when viewed from different viewpoints.
How do our visual systems solve these problems? The contributors to
this volume seek to answer this question by exploring how analytic
and holistic processes contribute to our perception of faces,
objects, and scenes. The role of parts and wholes in perception has
been studied for a century, beginning with the debate between
Structuralists, who championed the role of elements, and Gestalt
psychologists, who argued that the whole was different from the sum
of its parts. This is the first volume to focus on the current
state of the debate on parts versus wholes as it exists in the
field of visual perception by bringing together the views of the
leading researchers. Too frequently, researchers work in only one
domain, so they are unaware of the ways in which holistic and
analytic processing are defined in different areas. The
contributors to this volume ask what analytic and holistic
processes are like; whether they contribute differently to the
perception of faces, objects, and scenes; whether different
cognitive and neural mechanisms code holistic and analytic
information; whether a single, universal system can be sufficient
for visual-information processing, and whether our subjective
experience of holistic perception might be nothing more than a
compelling illusion. The result is a snapshot of the current
thinking on how the processing of wholes and parts contributesto
our remarkable ability to recognize faces, objects, and scenes, and
an illustration of the diverse conceptions of analytic and holistic
processing that currently coexist, and the variety of approaches
that have been brought to bear on the issues.
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