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To the vast majority of academic psychologists in the 1980s, the
study of cognition referred to that area of psychology known as
'cognitive psychology'. The major basis of this area had been the
computer metaphor with its accompanying notion of the individual as
an information-processing system. Yet within the field the study of
cognition is much broader and has a history that reaches into
antiquity, whereas 'cognitive psychology' as information-processing
psychology had only recently become the standard bearer of
cognitive studies. One of the purposes of this volume, originally
published in 1986, was to articulate some of the fundamental
distinctions between and concordances among different orientations
concerning the study of cognition. The collection includes chapters
on information processing, ecological, Gestalt, physiological, and
operant psychology.
Lynn Robertson has been studying how brain lesions affect spatial
abilities for over 20 years, and her work has revealed some
surprising facts about space and its role in visual perception. In
this book she combines evidence collected in her laboratory with
findings from others to explore the cognitive and neural basis of
spatial representations and their contributions to spatial
awareness, object formation, attention, and binding.
To the vast majority of academic psychologists in the 1980s, the
study of cognition referred to that area of psychology known as
'cognitive psychology'. The major basis of this area had been the
computer metaphor with its accompanying notion of the individual as
an information-processing system. Yet within the field the study of
cognition is much broader and has a history that reaches into
antiquity, whereas 'cognitive psychology' as information-processing
psychology had only recently become the standard bearer of
cognitive studies. One of the purposes of this volume, originally
published in 1986, was to articulate some of the fundamental
distinctions between and concordances among different orientations
concerning the study of cognition. The collection includes chapters
on information processing, ecological, Gestalt, physiological, and
operant psychology.
Owing to its bizarre nature and its implications for understanding
how brains work, synesthesia has recently received a lot of
attention in the popular press and motivated a great deal of
research and discussion among scientists. The questions generated
by these two communities are intriguing: Does the synesthetic
phenomenon require awareness and attention? How does a feature that
is not present become bound to one that is? Does synesthesia
develop or is it hard wired? Should it change our way of thinking
about perceptual experience in general? What is its value in
understanding perceptual systems as a whole?
This volume brings together a distinguished group of investigators
from diverse backgrounds--among them neuroscientists, novelists,
and synesthetes themselves--who provide fascinating answers to
these questions. Although each approaches synesthesia from a very
different perspective, and each was curious about and investigated
synesthesia for very different reasons, the similarities between
their work cannot be ignored. The research presented in this volume
demonstrates that it is no longer reasonable to ask whether or not
synesthesia is real--we must now ask how we can account for it from
cognitive, neurobiological, developmental, and evolutionary
perspectives. This book will be important reading for any scientist
interested in brain and mind, not to mention synesthetes
themselves, and others who might be wondering what all the fuss is
about.
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