Physics of Biological Action and Perception

• Author : Mark L. Latash
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2019-09-05
• ISBN : 9780128192856

Physics of Biological Action and Perception helps researchers interested in exploring biological motor control from a physics or alternative viewpoint perspective. The book introduces the idea of parametric control as a distinguishing feature of living systems. Sections cover how the CNS creates stable percepts based on fuzzy and continuously changing signals from numerous receptors and the variable processes related to ongoing actions. The author also develops the idea of control with referent coordinates to stability of salient variables in fields

• Author : Mark L. Latash
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2020-10-29
• ISBN : 9781000213843

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bernstein was one of the great neuroscientists of the twentieth century and highly respected by Western scientists even though most have never read his most important book entitled On the Construction of Movements. Bernstein's Construction of Movements: The Original Text and Commentaries is the first English translation. It supplements the translated text with a series of commentaries by scientists who knew Bernstein personally, as well as leaders in related fields including physics, motor control, and biomechanics. While written

• Author : Romi Nijhawan,Beena Khurana
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2010-03-25
• ISBN : 9780521863186

Brings together cutting edge experiments and theoretical treatments regarding space, time and motion in visual neuroscience and psychophysics.

• Author : Timothy L. Hubbard
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2018-07-31
• ISBN : 9781107154988

Numerous spatial biases influence navigation, interactions, and preferences in our environment. This volume considers their influences on perception and memory.

• Author : Anatol G. Feldman
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2015-06-18
• ISBN : 9781493927364

Empirical data on neural control of motor action and perception have not yet been put into the context of a coherent theory. Dr. Feldman's goal for the proposed book is to illustrate that the field is now at a stage where the data can be used to formulate some core principles that underlie action and perception and to present the foundation of a scientific theory of motor control. Dr. Feldman is a well-known expert and has been active in the

• Author : John T. Lett,Howard Adler
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2013-10-22
• ISBN : 9781483281896

Advances in Radiation Biology, Volume 9, provides an overview of the state of knowledge in radiation biology. The book contains nine chapters and begins with a study on the ways in which physical and chemical agents might trigger "regulatory dysfunction" and how these agents might interact with each other. This is followed by separate chapters on the mechanisms underlying changes in vascular function after doses of radiation in the therapeutic range and their role in the development of late effects in

• Author : Ehtibar Dzhafarov
• Publisher : World Scientific
• Release Date : 2015-11-30
• ISBN : 9789814730617

"The book explores the variety of meanings of contextuality across different disciplines, with the emphasis on quantum physics and on psychology."--

• Author : M.D. Rutherford,Valerie A. Kuhlmeier
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release Date : 2013-08-30
• ISBN : 9780262019279

Rutherford and Kuhlmeier present current research in the interdisciplinary field of social perception, including the perception of biological motion, the perception of animacy, attributions of intentionality, and the development of these psychological processes.

• Author : Michael Kubovy,James R. Pomerantz
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-03-31
• ISBN : 9781315512365

Originally published in 1981, perceptual organization had been synonymous with Gestalt psychology, and Gestalt psychology had fallen into disrepute. In the heyday of Behaviorism, the few cognitive psychologists of the time pursued Gestalt phenomena. But in 1981, Cognitive Psychology was married to Information Processing. (Some would say that it was a marriage of convenience.) After the wedding, Cognitive Psychology had come to look like a theoretically wrinkled Behaviorism; very few of the mainstream topics of Cognitive Psychology made explicit contact with Gestalt

• Author : Professor of Psychology Ian Thornton
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2006-01-05
• ISBN : 0195178378

As the general notion of cognition has recently broadened to include its embodied nature, researchers' accounts of perception have increasingly come to include the body's special status as a window on the world and to accommodate the specific perceptual requirements for identifying, interpreting, and interacting with other bodies. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the rapid progress that has been made in understanding the human body and its relationship to perception. It will help to unify the relevant research

• Author : Donald Hoffman
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2019-08-13
• ISBN : 9780393254709

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions and more over the course

• Author : A. Mark Williams,Keith Davids,John Garrett Pascoe Williams
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : 041918290X

Discusses the visual aspects of sports and explains how players mentally shape and react to what they see

• Author : Arun V. Holden,V. I. Kri︠u︡kov
• Publisher : Manchester University Press
• Release Date : 1991
• ISBN : 0719034566

• Author : Jean François Allemand,Pierre Desbiolles
• Publisher : World Scientific
• Release Date : 2014-10-15
• ISBN : 9789814616492

Do you often lose your keys? You will find in this book the best strategy to find them, or at least the one deduced from statistical physics. What is the link with biology? Some proteins use the same strategy to find their target inside a living cell. This example illustrates one of the many links between physics and biology. These links result from an intense research activity in the past years at the interface between those two disciplines. This book

• Author : Wolfgang Prinz,Bruce Bridgeman
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 1996
• ISBN : 9780125161619

This volume combines the classical fields of perception research with the major theoretical attitudes of today's research, distinguishing between experience- versus performance-related approaches, transformational versus interactional approaches, and approaches that rely on the processing versus discovery of information. Perception is separated into two parts. The first part deals with basic processes and mechanisms, and discusses early vision and later, yet still basic, vision. The second covers complex achievements with accounts of perceptual constancies and the perception of patterns, objects, events,