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Title Visual thought : the depictive space of perception / [edited by] Liliana Albertazzi.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 380 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 67
Advances in consciousness research ; v. 67.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Visual Thought; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Affiliations, addresses; Foreword; Perception of visual spaces; Introduction to visual spaces; Coplanar reflectance change and the ontology of surface perception; Evidence suggestive of separate visual dynamics in perception and in memory; Illusory space and paradoxical transparency in stereokinetic objects; The neural space of visual shape perception; Boundary Gestalt limits flow Gestalt; Depiction of visual spaces; Pictorial space, a modern reappraisal of Adolf Hildebrand; Gestalts of thought.
Summary This volume starts from an interdisciplinary expertise of the contributors, and chooses to work on the very origins of conscious qualitative states in perception. The leading research paradigm can be synthesized in 'phenomenology to neurons to stimuli, and backwards', since as a starting point it is taken the phenomenal appearances in the visual field. Specifically, the leading theme of the volume is the co-presence and interaction of diverse types of spaces in vision, like the optical space of psychophysics and of neural elaboration, the qualitative space of phenomenal appearances, and its re.
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Subject Space perception.
Space perception.
Consciousness.
Consciousness.
Space Perception.
Gestalt Theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Albertazzi, Liliana.
Other Form: Print version: Visual thought. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2006 (DLC) 2006049946
ISBN 9789027252036 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9027252033 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9789027293015 (electronic book)
9027293015 (electronic book)
128215513X
9781282155138
9027252033 (hardback ; alkaline paper)